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News by: Pic0o
Posted On: 31 December 2011 - 10:11 PM

Happy 2012

Had a few drinks over the day, while I am going to finish a few more then start my water regime. :kat:

and I went out for dinner and are way more full than we should be. I should make it to midnight, as I have World 7 and 8 to finish on Super Mario 3D Land. :smurfy:

Oh yeah, continuing my Vincent Price movie session from earlier today. {it and the Pendulum is the current flavor.

Have a sweet New Year! New job and some more regular dog walks are on my resolution radar. I prepare to go chill in the basement for the 2012 Drop (EST).

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News by: Pic0o
Posted On: 22 December 2011 - 05:03 PM

SOPA and DNS Change

I'm about out for the day, but it should be no shock that I think SOPA is a giant crock of idiotic bullshit. It turns out GoDaddy supports this, so I may join the party to switch to a new DNS provider.

The shameful clickbait sex ads were bad enough, but the ass licking support of such a counter-logical act of Gov't is the last straw. Considering I recently renewed, this is kind of a PITA, but not as much as the blatant idiocy they support.

Reddit Dood:

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"I just finished writing GoDaddy a letter stating why I'm moving my small businesses 51 domains away from them, as well as my personal domains," wrote redditor selfprodigy on Thursday morning. He proposed that December 29 be declared "move your domain day," with GoDaddy customers switching to competing registrars. The post has accumulated more than 1,500 comments, most of them supporting the idea.

Meanwhile, you can find this site by direct IP:
66.45.228.160:

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News by: J0k3r
Posted On: 12 November 2011 - 10:53 AM

Forsaken World MMO

Well it seems we got some players busting this game out lately. To be perfectly honest I have even started to play a little here and there. It's a pretty fun game, free to play which is nice. So with that said, we need to start getting people to roll up on TeamSpeak and bust out some action with us.

The game has a good range of chars to choose from
PVP Servers to make it more fun (Thats what we play)
Quest based leveling (Not a big fan of it, I like to grind off mobs)
Very Very Very team based which is pretty cool
Pet system which is rad. I love pet systems!
And yea pretty str8 forward, and I would call it a free World of War Craft

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News by: Pic0o
Posted On: 01 January 2012 - 01:26 PM

Super Mario 3D Land

As we joined the 3DS club this holiday, SM3L came home with us. This game shows the interesting use of 3D, while also allowing you to turn off 3D mode. I am mostly fond of the vertical levels, but all around the 3D use for level design is pretty impressive. Truth be told, seeing this game on demo in store, is what encouraged me to get a 3DS.

Game play wise, your base Mario platforming mechanics are intact. There are a few more new Suit / Power Up items, but nothing radically different enough from previous games for me to spoil it any more than that. There are are some mechanisms to make the levels more accessible and they are:

Default state is 'Big' Mario. You'll shrink if you get hit, unless you have a powerup. Then you would revert to Big.
Extra Lives are silly easy to acquire. This goes along with:
If you die multiple times on a level (3x to 5x), a Gold block with a Leaf on it will appear by the Start or Checkpoint. This will give you a Tanooki outfit and Star Power for the duration of the level.
Hit the top of the Flagpole @ the end of a level, get a 1 Up.
Jump on 5 enemies without hitting the ground (or via Star Power), get a 1 Up. This will continue with more 1 Ups if you continue 6+ on your jumps or star mode.
Levels are 'bite-sized' imo. I saw this with Mario 3 in mind. I'd say they are about half the length of those levels, on average.
World Maps tend to have 5 Levels and the Castle. Each World also has an optional level, unlocked via the Gold Coins you collected from the other levels.

Per the system time logging, I completed the 1st play through in about 7 hours. Since you collect Gold Coins in each level to proceed into Castles and such, replaying levels works out pretty well.

As common with the newer games, you'll find extra levels regularly not accessible. Details in spoiler

Spoiler

This game also utilizes StreetPass connections. Thus far, I have gotten a few items from Mushroom houses via other people's StreetPass Miis. This is the extent of StreetPass functionality, as of my completing all the main and extra worlds.

I look forward to rocking the extras detailed in the spoiler. I should have this ready for :kat:

rocking by tomorrow. The level design is awesome and impressive. I feel the quality trumps any concerns about conceived length.

I think World 5 is my favorite world, as I recall being Wow'ed when I got there.

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News by: Pic0o
Posted On: 19 December 2011 - 09:24 AM

PS Vita

PS Vita is looking to come state-side in Jan, as it already hit in Japan. Also of good news, is some Hello World code was run in the VitaPSP mode.

Looking forward to a way to play old UMDs, without being asked to buy them again. Homebrew is also always stupid fun too!

Meanwhile, new users are already reporting issues with system performance. Sony dropped a public apology and FW update, so they knew how it was likely to go down.

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News by: Pic0o
Posted On: 14 December 2011 - 12:40 PM

Humble Indie Bundle #4

I was thinking about a few of the games listed, but for the name your own price, I had to bite on the following items.

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Seven epic games. We're ready to drop seven new cross-platform, DRM-free games down your digital chimney. Bandage your fingertips and prepare your mind for the challenges of Super Meat Boy, Shank, Jamestown, Bit.Trip Runner, and NightSky. If you pay more than the average price, you'll also get two massive, well-loved indie favorites: Cave Story+ and Gratuitous Space Battles.

Jumped on this one indeed. Downloading them now, as you also get Steam keys with your purchase. Grab your copy @ the link:
http://www.humblebundle.com/

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@BlissPC News

News by: h0m3r
Posted On: 22 January 2012 - 07:48 PM

NAS Setup

I just setup a QNAP NAS at my place this weekend.

Ordered one of these from newegg and a 3TB Seagate barracuda. I still have one open HD slot for later expansion or RAID.

Getting the thing running takes probably 45minutes, including HD install, etc. This thing has a lot of cool things you can also setup. QNAP also provides a DynDNS like service for free that you can setup in like 2 clicks and you get a domain at *.mycloudnas.com, *.qcloudnas.com, or *.myqnapnas.com.

It has all the cool features that most NAS seem to have now:

S/FTP
Web Server
UPnP Media Server
SSH/Telnet
BitTorrent manager (which is really easy to use and quite nice)
and some other stuff.

Installing community apps is simple with QPKG. I installed Python and pyLoad on the QNAP in a couple minutes. pyLoad lets you paste in a bunch of rapidshare/megaupload/tons of other links and it will autodownload them.

So far I've been able to stream video to everything I've tried. Xbox360 (with some tricks), PC, iPod.

The only real drawback I've found so far: Transcoding

QNAP uses Twonky Media Server for the UPnP bit, and transcoding high quality video is virtually impossible on this little ARM CPU.

The problem is, Xbox360 doesn't support MKV, so watching this format requires transcoding.

For this, I just run Tversity on my Windows box, add the NAS media folder to the Tversity library, and then stream from the PC to Xbox. Kind of shitty in design, but works flawlessly.

To get subtitles to show on Xbox after transcoding, open ffdshow video config, check "Subtitles", "Accept embedded subtitles", Accept SSA, ASS and ASS2 subtitles (experimental)", and "Decode closed captions". Make sure "ass" is in the Extensions priority box.

Overall this thing is the shit and I wish I had it a long time ago. :clam:

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News by: J0k3r
Posted On: 17 December 2011 - 09:36 PM

Mega-Desk!!!!!!!!

I took our 32" Samsung LCD from our kitchen and setup on my box along with my 2 Samsung 22"'erz

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News by: Pea
Posted On: 02 December 2011 - 02:02 PM

Wireless Routers

So our wireless router is pretty old and isn't working so well these days. It's a 4 port linksys, pretty basic. We aren't looking to break the bank but I was thinking it'd be wise of us to get more like 8 ports. Should we stick with linksys or try a new brand? Some one told us Netgear was good but I don't wanna go spend the money without ever trying one.

And are there any brands we should be sure to avoid?

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