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by Skyalmian
Wed Jun 20, 2012 7:14 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Music That Should've Been In Descent
Replies: 3
Views: 381

Re: Music That Should've Been In Descent

Nice track, dude. Is trippin'.
by Skyalmian
Thu May 17, 2012 4:41 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Chrome fail... they're retarded.
Replies: 18
Views: 1254

Re: Chrome fail... they're retarded.

I deeply dislike the UI direction Google is going in, starting with the "red flag"-like redesign of their "+1 button" some time ago. Too much wasted space, no customization like in Gmail (why can't they have themes for Google+ like they do there?), the quasi-copying of Faceboot's...
by Skyalmian
Mon May 07, 2012 10:16 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Dinosaurs didn't die because of an asteroid...
Replies: 89
Views: 6790

Re: Dinosaurs didn't die because of an asteroid...

The Cs Hit List 07: Sun Star Companion, Singing Stones and Smoking Visions wrote:Q: (L) What killed off the major dinosaurs?
A: Comet impact.
Q: (L) What was the source of this comet?
A: Cluster.
Q: (L) How long has this comet cluster been with us in our solar system?
A: 890 million years.
by Skyalmian
Thu Aug 11, 2011 4:33 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: We Were Warned
Replies: 67
Views: 4465

Re: We Were Warned

by Skyalmian
Tue Jun 28, 2011 7:19 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Crysis 2 Gets Dx 11 (finally)
Replies: 8
Views: 590

Re: Crysis 2 Gets Dx 11 (finally)

That dynamic water...so cool...
by Skyalmian
Thu Jun 09, 2011 12:15 am
Forum: D2X-XL
Topic: Better lightmaps for D2X-XL
Replies: 5
Views: 13285

Re: Better lightmaps for D2X-XL

Descent 2? Looks like Descent 3. :shock:
by Skyalmian
Tue Mar 29, 2011 11:17 pm
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: Awesome Free Software (v2.0)
Replies: 69
Views: 119705

Re: Awesome Free Software (v2.0)

Ext2Fsd http://www.ext2fsd.com/ "Ext2Fsd is an ext2 file system driver for Windows (2k, XP, Vista and Win7). It’s a free software. Anyone can modify or distribute it under GPL2." Features Ext2Fsd supports: ext2/ext3 volume reading & writing ext3 journal replay when mounting various cod...
by Skyalmian
Mon Feb 28, 2011 11:32 am
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Firefly
Replies: 29
Views: 3555

Re: Firefly

by Skyalmian
Sun Feb 20, 2011 4:01 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Fun times in Madison WI this week.
Replies: 61
Views: 6121

Re: Fun times in Madison WI this week.

there is also question on whether the President is in violation of the constitution by getting involved with this state issue. Irrelevant , as the "government" is and has been a large group of corporations that named and structured themselves the same as the now-defunct republic governmen...
by Skyalmian
Thu Feb 17, 2011 4:41 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Ever see Minority Report?
Replies: 10
Views: 1002

Re: Ever see Minority Report?

The day those go mainstream / everywhere is the day I always carry on my self a bottle of screen cleaner and a soft wiping cloth.
by Skyalmian
Thu Feb 10, 2011 12:42 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Last Post
Replies: 89
Views: 9314

Re: Last Post

Bet51987 wrote:
You could simply step down / resign like an "official" does in government and force them to choose another moderator, due to all the drama around this. I would.
by Skyalmian
Sun Feb 06, 2011 7:29 pm
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: Awesome Free Software (v2.0)
Replies: 69
Views: 119705

Re: Awesome Free Software (v2.0)

BlueGriffon http://www.bluegriffon.org/ "A new WYSIWYG content editor for the World Wide Web. Powered by Gecko, the rendering engine of Firefox 4, it's a modern and robust solution to edit Web pages in conformance to the latest Web Standards." KompoZer http://www.kompozer.net/ "A comp...
by Skyalmian
Sun Feb 06, 2011 3:26 pm
Forum: DBB Feedback Forum
Topic: DescentBB Upgrade to PHPBB3 Bugs
Replies: 95
Views: 28632

Re: DescentBB Upgrade to PHPBB3 Bugs

This is the link I've been entered the forum through for the past few years: http://www.descentbb.net/search.php?search_id=newposts . It only works when one is logged in, but even though I am it's saying " Sorry but you are not permitted to use the search system. ". It was working earlier ...
by Skyalmian
Sat Feb 05, 2011 7:30 pm
Forum: DBB Feedback Forum
Topic: The DescentBB upgrade
Replies: 137
Views: 44366

Re: The DescentBB upgrade

Cool. More freedom now, all the long-ago deleted items such as signatures & info below avatar are back, and there's a selection of themes ("DescentBB Orbital" is nice.). 8) (Please don't void any of the aforementioned...) ...I really made 1,668 posts? What the h... Unless I'm imagining...
by Skyalmian
Fri Jan 14, 2011 10:30 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: What happens when you steal a hackers computer
Replies: 7
Views: 866

It was indeed funny...
Then I looked into Melvin's comments on that very YouTube / his side of the story a little bit. -_-
by Skyalmian
Mon Jan 10, 2011 5:30 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Psychopath attacks congresswoman
Replies: 137
Views: 11856

Re:

We really need a unifying political figure who can bring the polarities back to the middle, and soon. That will never happen beneficially so long as psychopaths ( 1 2 ) continue to remain in power... Besides, the ancient Divide and Conquer tactic that is pandemic today works too well for them. If u...
by Skyalmian
Sun Jan 09, 2011 1:59 am
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Replies: 11
Views: 2370

by Skyalmian
Fri Jan 07, 2011 12:35 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: 6DOF Game Miner Wars
Replies: 99
Views: 29210

It doesn't help perceptions that the Descent community as a whole has been repeatedly wounded by failed successor projects that had a flimsy foundation from their start... :| Think back as far as \"nTrap\" and go from there...
by Skyalmian
Fri Jan 07, 2011 1:27 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Vaccine-Autism \"link\" fraudulent
Replies: 19
Views: 2289

Re:

Grendel wrote:(ref)
I'm glad to have read that... Thanks for showing it, as it does well at illuminating the multi-part story. :o
by Skyalmian
Thu Jan 06, 2011 8:53 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Vaccine-Autism \"link\" fraudulent
Replies: 19
Views: 2289

Vaccines by themselves aren't a problem. It's the toxic metal mercury that's in them as a preservative that many are asking strong questions over. Mercury + Autism. (Notice the diametrically opposed headlines.) 4) Dr. Andrew Wakefield asks why it's in infant vaccines when, "mercury was taken ou...
by Skyalmian
Thu Jan 06, 2011 7:22 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: 6DOF Game Miner Wars
Replies: 99
Views: 29210

As far as I can tell at present , it looks like it will skip out on being for other platforms. If this game were to be a gameplay / commercial success, it would be another that the Linux / Macintosh crowd miss out on save those who have a Windows partition/install to make use of. I know full well th...
by Skyalmian
Tue Jan 04, 2011 11:39 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Google makes me nervous
Replies: 27
Views: 2791

Why shut down the internet when things like Facebook and complex algorithms for all its data are far more useful? Goldman Sachs Invests $450 Million In Facebook At $50 Billion Valuation Found elsewhere: Basically when a person uploads a photo onto Facebook they 'tag' all the people in that photo wit...
by Skyalmian
Sun Jan 02, 2011 5:41 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Desktops of 2011
Replies: 104
Views: 14800

http://sky.sploitz.com/forum/screenshot/arch-linux-desktop/2011-01-01-clean-thumb.png http://sky.sploitz.com/forum/screenshot/arch-linux-desktop/2011-01-01-dirty-thumb.png http://sky.sploitz.com/forum/screenshot/arch-linux-desktop/2011-01-02-clean-thumb.png It barely changes. - Apps are openbox, ti...
by Skyalmian
Thu Dec 23, 2010 4:37 am
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: Dissable Freakin Windows Key
Replies: 13
Views: 2048

If it's a standard keyboard...
Pluck it out?
by Skyalmian
Sun Dec 19, 2010 11:47 pm
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: Google: \"Please use Firefox, not Chrome.\"
Replies: 13
Views: 1506

Re:

Why is it so many programs that start out minimalist, end up being bloated and unusable. "More, more, more." is often seen as "progress". In spite of [Mozilla] SeaMonkey (/user of) being a suite of programs such as browser, mail, editor, and chat client, it's quite awesome that ...
by Skyalmian
Sun Dec 19, 2010 3:45 pm
Forum: DBB Feedback Forum
Topic: Why is the DBB.net so slow?
Replies: 14
Views: 2822

^ Editing posts times out half the time with a blank page displayed after the long wait is over, and then the edit was not even accepted.
by Skyalmian
Sat Dec 18, 2010 6:07 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Apps are tracking and reporting on you.
Replies: 22
Views: 2563

This is unfortunately not very surprising.
Off-topic but similarly, I wonder how much and what Google is doing with all the information they collect...
by Skyalmian
Tue Dec 14, 2010 12:26 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Fall of an Empire?
Replies: 24
Views: 1762

All dark empires fall; it is only a matter of \"time\". For those truly paying attention, the signs are already there and very alarming. It is worth noting that the longer the collapse is delayed (as the power players are currently doing as much and as long as they can), the more sudden an...
by Skyalmian
Sun Dec 12, 2010 5:07 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Replies: 11
Views: 2370

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

11-11-11 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (also referenced as Skyrim) is a fantasy role-playing video game in development by Bethesda Game Studios; it is to be published by Bethesda Softworks. It is the fifth installment in The Elder Scrolls action fantasy video game series, and is a direct sequel to Th...
by Skyalmian
Tue Dec 07, 2010 12:36 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: sigh... blockheaded TSA regulations
Replies: 92
Views: 8383

Bump for amusement. :lol: Plane Foolish Reader note about TSA: "wow, I'm really getting pissed at the stupidity of people now. every day you hear some new quote from a lemming, or see one on a news article, or even quoted by you, to the effect of "oh boy, at least the TSA is keeping us saf...
by Skyalmian
Sun Dec 05, 2010 5:54 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Wikileaks - who does it hurt and who does it help?
Replies: 91
Views: 11382

Wikileaks - who does it hurt and who does it help? Thus far, it looks like: Hurt : The Internet's future of being free / avoiding becoming \"Internet 2\" Live with the WikiLeakable world or shut down the net. It's your choice. Lieberman Introduces Anti-WikiLeaks Legislation Operation Troj...
by Skyalmian
Thu Dec 02, 2010 11:21 pm
Forum: Descent Level Spotlight
Topic: Abandoned Projects Released
Replies: 6
Views: 4459

Abandoned Projects Released

Who knows if anyone is interested in Descent 3 materials at this point. Nevertheless, considering I am not going to finish either project, I decided to release everything for anyone who wishes to use anything or everything from it. Included in it are: - Lunar Outpost MN0019 v1.1 - Lunar Outpost MN00...
by Skyalmian
Mon Nov 01, 2010 2:51 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Desktops of 2010
Replies: 118
Views: 18515

by Skyalmian
Tue Oct 05, 2010 6:22 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Burning Down The House.
Replies: 37
Views: 2608

Re:

Spidey wrote:What if there were people in the house?
No people, but 3 dogs and 1 cat burned to death.
by Skyalmian
Tue Sep 28, 2010 9:51 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: The Crunch of Broken Light Bulbs
Replies: 48
Views: 3348

...the graphic could have left out \"Zionist\". That's a heated word these days. Just mentioning Israel is fine. It's commonly known now that the \"United States\" is and has been Israel's ★■◆●.
by Skyalmian
Sun Sep 26, 2010 4:45 am
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: Google Voice?
Replies: 12
Views: 1295

I'm not pleased with Google due to its privacy-bs, but I still use some of its services and laughed at AT&T and the like ruffling their feathers and being miffed. Damn straight this service is a threat to their profits. I like it for making outbound calls (lovely sound quality) and of course, te...
by Skyalmian
Fri Aug 27, 2010 12:07 pm
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: My arch linux experiment
Replies: 12
Views: 1189

This is very recent; new: multilib repository: Feedback & Notification Thread . Correction : \"[multilib] is 32-bit apps built to work with 64-bit Arch. They're being moved out of [community] so that the 3 main and 1 extra repos (testing, core, extra, community) are purely 64-bit for 64-bit...
by Skyalmian
Thu Aug 26, 2010 12:51 pm
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: My arch linux experiment
Replies: 12
Views: 1189

I've been using Arch Linux 64 since April 10, 2010. I went with an openbox (window manager) + tint2 (taskbar / panel) + thunar (file manager) setup as seen a gazillion times in all the monthly Arch Screenshots threads... No login manager, just ~/.xinit ("xinit") entered manually in console...
by Skyalmian
Fri Aug 06, 2010 2:24 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: how i mine for rank
Replies: 43
Views: 4210

Other forum software such as Simple Machines, PunBB, etc. allow for the user setting their own custom rank.