It's all about green tea

[radass]

My word yes; Green tea is the shit. I have made the swap from coffee to green tea and i recommend you all do the same! Especially those of you brave enough to attempt to enter the world of computer programming :O

Which reminds me, Darwinia is a fucking amazing and original game, and I highly recommend you download the demo at http://www.introversion.co.uk/ . If you like the game please consider buying it; Introversion are one of the very few small independant studios surviving and they deserve support. Being independant, they also get to make the games that they truly want to make, like many of us have dreamed, as aposed to being controlled and pulled into line by the massive corporations profiting from the mainstream gaming market.

Green tea ...

[Peter]

....but Coffee is my freind :( i cant walk away from a commitment like that ..... :(

[cvt]

mmm, greentea

indeed!

[*NoN*Da]rY*]

ill stick to my Guarana, all hail the power of dirty dog and dragon power!

Other than that ive been told that non alcoholic rice wine keeps you going for hours!

[radass]

Originally posted by Peter
....but Coffee is my freind :( i cant walk away from a commitment like that ..... :(

I thought i couldnt either .. I had what i would consider a serious habit. Green tea though, seems to fill that need in a similar but different way .. the mind effect is much more mild, but it still really helps you through the day in a similar way but without the stress on your system that coffee delivers

[Bignick]

Originally posted by *NoN*Da]rY*

non alcoholic rice wine keeps you going for hours!

yeah, so does speed...

[Mong]

they also made such game as Uplink

I have tried this game and its just doesnt do it for me. Maybe if i buy it cause i only got demo

[*NoN*Da]rY*]

.... and that has something to do with liquids that keep you going Mong ?

[Mong]

Originally posted by radass
Which reminds me, Darwinia is a fucking amazing and original game, and I highly recommend you download the demo at http://www.introversion.co.uk/ . If you like the game please consider buying it; Introversion are one of the very few small independant studios surviving and they deserve support. Being independant, they also get to make the games that they truly want to make, like many of us have dreamed, as aposed to being controlled and pulled into line by the massive corporations profiting from the mainstream gaming market.


Yes it does :D

[Eoin]

MILO

It's the shit when you can't be fucked or don't have the time or resources to eat a meal, but still need to go out and kick some arse. :)

[radass]

Uplink is also an awesome game

[mudgie]

I've got some green tea in the cupboard, I'll attempt the bold move.

Also, I never played Uplink :/

Woah! Just realised I downloaded Darwina and forgot about it, only because I heard such great things about Uplink :D

[radass]

They're both great games

Uplink is fun, and you can get into it for a while. Darwinia is a work of art imho.

and kudos on the green tea :)

[Joshu]

Originally posted by cvt
mmm, greentea

indeed!

Hahahaha, I completely missed the point of that the first time around :p

Does anyone else have issues with Firefox's download manager being shit?

[*NoN*Da]rY*]

after i told it how to handle what file types i havent had any problem :) sexelant DL mager IMO

[radass]

i've had no isses except i'd rather a 'save as' option, and the abilty to do multiple connections to the one file

[Joshu]

It drops out downloads of anything over 5MB.

I've downloaded GetRight now... I feel dirty. :(

[radass]

how weird

must be a dialup thing

[Mong]

Uplink is a good game its pretty old now, ive got tons of mods and skins, when i used to play i set up dual monitors (SWORDFISH STYLE) and it works great, but it gets old fast, its still installed on my pc, if you want to look at some great mods and such Here (http://www.modlink.net)

[Joshu]

Dialup is shitty and I won't have to worry about it soon.

I really like Darwinia, it's nice, but it feels incomplete. The demo didn't properly outline what I _didn't_ get to see (ie, give teasing screenshots, a la old shareware games) which is shitty. Oh well.

[radass]

the demo feels a bit that way, the full version puts a bit of context into it and adds some REALLY interesting intro screens that change each time you load it !

Plus a predictable but cool visualisation of the internet

the demo shows the raw mechanics, but yeah, full version fleshes it out a bit.

[TeamZephyr]

finally someone other than myself that loves green tea!

[Mong]

hmm never tried green tea, maybe it will chill out the mong ;)

[radass]

Originally posted by TeamZephyr
finally someone other than myself that loves green tea!

It's a revolution!

Next on the agenda: 2 pieces of fruit a day :O

[cvt]

Originally posted by Joshu
Hahahaha, I completely missed the point of that the first time around :p

Does anyone else have issues with Firefox's download manager being shit?

shame on you.

I use IDM for downloads, not the built in junk, had many problems with stalled downloads, both on dialup and adsl

[mudgie]

Originally posted by radass
It's a revolution!

Next on the agenda: 2 pieces of fruit a day :O

Fuck, let's not go insane!

[Mong]

mmm fruit i like a banana each day, or orange :D

[Griphonix]

Originally posted by radass
Which reminds me, Darwinia is a fucking amazing and original game, and I highly recommend you download the demo at http://www.introversion.co.uk/ . If you like the game please consider buying it; Introversion are one of the very few small independant studios surviving and they deserve support. Being independant, they also get to make the games that they truly want to make, like many of us have dreamed, as aposed to being controlled and pulled into line by the massive corporations profiting from the mainstream gaming market.
Green tea ...

hey, they made uplink? cool.

[Zevensoft]

White tea would be nice, it tastes sweet and contains more antioxidants than green tea, but costs $10/100g :(

[Moo]

Originally posted by Mong
mmm fruit i like a banana each day

I think Dave means eatting it, not shoving it in the bumbum.

[radass]

white tea! interesting :O

[Mong]

pffft, whatever moo

[Aphex]

Red Bull...
aint nothing like it!!!

next to that, the full strength syrup red bull only avaliable in Austria...
thank god for those bizarra'o techno heads, and there need for a constant buzz...

[radass]

there's a vietnamese grocery shop on victoria st, Richmond that sells 10 bottles of that for $10 :D

[Aphex]

:O now i do have a reason to live!!! :D

[Joshu]

Darwinia is insane. It took me ages (and some looking online :() to figure out the box kites thing though.

I'm still adamant that they should've put previews into the game telling what one could expect in the full version. All I can tell from the manual is that you can't get armor in the demo.

[radass]

yeah the special buildings need darwinians to run them

i'm just about to do that mine level in the full version

[Mong]

lol the graphics are sweet as

[Joshu]

Darwinian v3.0 is pretty powerful. Fear my Darwinians, purveyors of anti-virus doooooooom! :)

This battle actually ended with around 5 Darwinians alive, and no virii. Shame they couldn't kill the spider and sporelayer.

Mong, think before you post please.

[radass]

crazy, i only just got v2 darwinians

i'm all about squad size and grenades though :) nothign better than lobbing 5 grenades at a spider and scooting off :D

how good a co-op game would this be

just checked i actually do have v3 darwinians :D just havent used em in combat yet

hanging OUT to get the airstike from the demo ..

[Joshu]

I'm all about the airstrikes. Laggy, but powerful.

In the demo, you start with Darwinian v2.0 and upgrade to v3.0 roughly when you capture the second incubator. They fires the lasers :) Have you seen them having a ceremony for a lost Darwinian? THAT'S fucking crazy.

http://img214.exs.cx/img214/9242/darwinofficer8to.th.jpg (http://img214.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img214&image=darwinofficer8to.jp g)

[Mong]

dude, THE GRAPHICS ARE COOL, RETRO 80'S STUFF ITS AWESOME
So don't fucking tell ME, to think before i post

[radass]

hurrah just got the airstrike !!

[radass]

Originally posted by Joshu
virii

virii aint the plural of virus :)

[Eoin]

Originally posted by Mong
dude, THE GRAPHICS ARE COOL, RETRO 80'S STUFF ITS AWESOME
So don't fucking tell ME, to think before i post

Think before you post dude

[radass]

hahahahahah!!

[Joshu]

Originally posted by radass
virii aint the plural of virus :)
Aint isn't a word, nor a valid contraction... so I guess we can all dream about our crazy grammar. :)

[radass]

http://www.lanx.org.au/spotlight/mong/theword.php?font_size=20&the_word_is=YA MUM JOSHU!

[Joshu]

Cmon, play fair, you know I can't figure them out :(

[radass]

wtf ? sif ?

[Joshu]

Behold.

http://www.lanx.org.au/spotlight/mong/theword.php?font_size=20&the_word_is=YA%20MUMS%20M UM!

...I know you're playing funny buggers with me now Dave...

[MR_PEA]

now thats just stupid!

[Moo]

Originally posted by Joshu
Mong, think before you post please.

HAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHA

Originally posted by Joshu
Mong, think


BRUAHAHHAHAHHAHA


HAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHA
hhhahahahhaha
hahhaha

ah

heh

....

*ahem*

... i think i need more sleep. 3 hours this weekend.

And that damn penguin keeps bugging me.

[Mong]

hahah nice one dave, i figured them out,

Whats wrong joshu though you could figure things out over lunch
as you posted before

[Joshu]

Originally posted by Mong
What's wrong, Joshu? Thought you could figure things out over lunch, as you posted before?

That's not the problem, I'd stick the URL into img tags and it'd not work. Swear to God that Dave's up to something shifty with that.:(

[mudgie]

http://www.imagehosting.us/imagehosting/showimg.jpg/?id=341788

[radass]

edit: awesome mudgie :)

the actual problem i think is with vb's handling of img tags, it doesnt deal with %20 -- needs spaces.

ah wtf, your one at the top has %20

hmm odd

http://members.viclan.org.au/radass/level select thumb.png (http://members.viclan.org.au/radass/level select full.png)

Coolest level select screen ever

[Joshu]

Does anyone else have issues with games taking over their minds?

If I play The Sims for too long, I'd start doing menial tasks and it'd feel slow and I'd try to speed everything up.

If I play with audio editing stuff for too long, I start hearing funny noises.

If I play this wretched game, I start trying to create squads in Firefox (mouse gestures extension), and bring up engineers when I've loaded a page to collect the souls from the last one.

[radass]

Do you frantically airstrike when you see one of moo's posts ? :D

I used to have a real problem with seeing Tetris in real life after a big session, and i'd kinda daydream away for a 1 min here and there, playing it in my mind

Actually i think i had minor zero hour issues at the time too .. I build for China!

[Joshu]

The "rocker action" in mouse gestures (hold right-click, then left-click ; aka "fire secondary weapon") makes the browser go back. Many a time I have fired grenades into random posts only to find my browser loading the LANX main site.

Of course, after learning to avoid that problem, I forget to use grenades(etc) in the game :(