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Tech Junkie Lounge / Re: It 'tis time.

« on: March 13, 2008, 09:12:25 AM »

myspace is a waste of bandwitdh

Wow... I actually... agree with that.

On the whole, it's not only a waste of bandwidth, but a waste of time. So many people insist on blogging about the stupid boring intricacies of their life that are more or less better left unsaid. People talk about their personal problems way too damn much. Anyone and everyone can read it, especially those who have no business having any kind of insight into one's personal life. Remember the good old days when teenage girls would keep their diaries LOCKED and inside a locked fireproof safe under their bed with more chains and padlocks around THAT for extra measure? From the few times I've actually seen a myspace page, the idiots had 40,000 little flash images and other little do-dads that caused the page to take 15 minutes to completely load, even with broadband.

DIE, MYSPACE!

But hey, if you can cash in on the trend somehow, I'm all for fleecing the flock. More power to you. Viva capitalista!

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art, music, etc. / Re: See you later, Jeff

« on: March 11, 2008, 05:09:22 AM »

first time i noticed this style of playing on the lap was Ben Harper, interesting to know how it came about.

Ohhhhhhh. Nah, it goes wayyyyyy back. I can't remember the guys name off the top of my head, (perhaps Blind Lemon Jefferson or someone else) but there's been a few old black blues and folk guitarists from the early 1900's who played across their lap. Steel guitars like the famed National Resophonic's are intended to be played across the lap with a slide, which is why the fretboards aren't radiused like other guitars.

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tastyspleen.net / Re: Focalor's Pak Item Archive

« on: March 11, 2008, 04:52:04 AM »

Search engines and text-mode browsers just see a bunch of linked images, with no indication of what they're linked to (except by deciphering the URL).  At the very least you could turn this:

Code: [Select]

<img src="http://focalor.tastyspleen.net/images/FocalorSigil.gif">
into this:

Code: [Select]

<img src="http://focalor.tastyspleen.net/images/FocalorSigil.gif" alt="Sigil of Focalor (enter site)">
and likewise add alt text to the menu images:

Code: [Select]

<a href="http://focalor.tastyspleen.net/news.html"><image border="0" id='button1'
src="http://focalor.tastyspleen.net/images/buttons/news1.png" alt="News"
onmouseover = 'document.getElementById("button1").src = "http://focalor.tastyspleen.net/images/buttons/news2.png"'
onmouseout =  'document.getElementById("button1").src = "http://focalor.tastyspleen.net/images/buttons/news1.png"'
></a>


If I'm thinking correctly about what you're saying concerning "alt text", doesn't that cause a little dialogue box to appear when you rollover an image? Since I have the button images coded to change upon rollover, that would just look like shit in my opinion. A lot of people have a pet peeve about allowing the target for a link to be displayed in the status bar along the bottom of the browser. I for one like to know that what I'm clicking on isn't going to direct me somewhere I'm not wanting to go. If someone can't read the buttons, they can read the status bar, the page names are pretty self explanatory.

Also, I can't seem to find the <image> element in either HTML 4 or XHTML 1, although it works fine on both browsers I tested... I'd recommend changing it to <img>.

Uhhhhhhhh..................greek! Like I said, I'm an HTML noob, you'll have to explain that one a little more. What purpose would that serve, an example of how to do it, etc.

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art, music, etc. / See you later, Jeff

« on: March 08, 2008, 10:38:04 PM »

Blind blues guitarist/singer Jeff Healey dies of cancer at age 41.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/arts/music/04healey.html

You probably remember him from his role in the movie Road House starring Patrick Swayze. The fact that he was blind caused him to have to play with the guitar across his lap which lent itself to a very unique style of playing, almost like playing a slide lap steel guitar, but I never see a slide.

Jeff Healey - While My Guitar Gently Weeps:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJh3KaIKDAw&feature=related
Pay no mind to the mullet. HEY, he was blind, he had no idea how bad it looked.

Jeff Healey Band - "Roadhouse Blues":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIZywo3PBTE
Scares the shit out of me to watch him get up and start hopping around the stage, I'm afraid any second I'm going to see him fall over the monitors on the front of the stage and do a faceplant in the audience.

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tastyspleen.net / Re: Focalor's Pak Item Archive

« on: March 05, 2008, 03:30:45 PM »

Sweet!  Now my screen can stay somewhat readable even on those painfully bright JUMP maps (and apparently PakScape works great under WINE, too).

If you're talking about the console characters with black backings, yes, I highly recommend using those. I don't currently have them in my own pak file, I'm planning on making a Focalor'sPak v2.0 which will include them. Presently, I use the stock conchars. I don't like them. When taking screenshots of the scoreboard at the end of a game, the conchars with black backings prevent the similar colors on the map from obscuring the text.

I included a download of PakScape because PakExplorer is pointless and useless. With the version of PakExplorer I had (I'm not sure if there are any others), the installer was all in fucking german or bosnian or some shit. *click* *click* "Hmm.....ok..... well, I hope this ain't malware, .....let's find out." *click* All it seemed to do was merely display what was contained in the file, it wouldn't let me add or delete anything.

I'd recommend removing the splash page (as cool as it looks, it'll slow down users as well as confuse search engines and text browsers), and adding some alt text for the menu images.  The button font could be a bit more readable, too, although many browsers will display alt text when the cursor hovers over an image.

Splash page? Do you mean the entrance page (index)? Eh, I can't get rid of that, my parole officer requires it. 

Confuse search engines? How so? I could probably add some text in black at the bottom (to make it invisible) with certain search keywords. I think there's a way to encode that into the page another way, but I don't know how to do it. I'm just an html-noob.

If you don't like how normal single colored brightskins look so incredibly unrealistic and flat, you might like these.

That's like saying
<--- this smiley looks more realistic than this smiley --->

In many of the pak files I have, they contain brightskins that are nothing more than one color spread over the PCX skin file. Elysium's brightskins are like the normal skins having contour shading and suit details, but with a neon color for the suit, while keeping the original heads and arms. Personally, I don't like the appearance of the single colored skins. They just look crappy. I thought Elysium's skins looked better than anything else I had ever seen, so I included them. Both of those are the only pak files I personally use. My custom pak is "pak8", I have the brightskins named "pak9" so that I can easily remove them if I don't want to use them.

By the way... Elysium, I never asked your permission to post those even though I did give you authoring credit for them, if you read this and would like me to remove those skins from my page, I will do so.

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THE NOCLIP 1 BOARD / Re: Jump sub forum <<<?

« on: March 05, 2008, 09:33:46 AM »

 

 

 

 BREAD BREAD w/  -D

Spam sammitch with sunny D


  , that was anti-

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Tech Junkie Lounge / Re: Open Source Licenses

« on: March 04, 2008, 06:14:06 PM »

You know, it's really all relative, the idea of property began when some cowboy saw a piece of land, made a fence around it and called it "private property".  But I'm not against making money, just fucking greed. 

Greed is just one of many sins, all of which lead to physical, mental, and emotional gratification. Preach your haughty moral dogma and worthless gospel of socialism to someone else, my heaven is here on earth RIGHT NOW.

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/dev/random / Re: I WIN!

« on: March 04, 2008, 12:39:24 PM »

 



Congratulations, you are now a black man! 

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Tech Junkie Lounge / Re: Open Source Licenses

« on: March 04, 2008, 12:02:52 PM »

GPL is also used by companies like id to ensure that no one is gonna take their source code and make a propietary program with it, without shelling over a few hundred thousand greenbacks first.

 

God damn capitalists. How dare they make a profit off of something they created.

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1v1 and TDM Demos / Re: [EoM]5killz talking shit after get owned.

« on: March 04, 2008, 12:00:00 PM »

Ok faggot, whats ur problem with me now?

Why do u keep taking shit when i
stoped talking shit about ur fucking clan?

Did i talk shit to u now?

Explain for me.

 

Oh, my bad, are we "friends" now? How do I know that you've quit shit-talking me behind my back, you've done it before, I can only assume you'd continue to do so. At least I say what I have to say out in the open where you can witness it too. If you're tired of the shit-slinging, fine, I'll stop.  I expect you to do the same though.

*drops the wad of shit*

Ok, The End. Live and let die.

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Quake / Re: MONSTERKILL 500. March 9th!

« on: March 04, 2008, 11:35:55 AM »

I just bet that from ALL THE WAY THE FUCK IN BUMBLEFUCK PERU.... you'll have a killer ping, dude. Pardon me whilst I search for my ass, I seemed to have laughed it off.

I tell you what. Show up and play. Get a screenshot of you with the player name "zndkw1n" in FIRST place when all is said and done, and I promise that I will WALK all the way to your front door, get on my knees, and kiss your ass.

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tastyspleen.net / Focalor's Pak Item Archive

« on: March 03, 2008, 09:10:47 PM »

So I began looking around the internet a few months back for PAK files. I ended up downloading a bunch from here, there, and everywhere. I tried out a few, and none of them were 100% to my liking. So I ended up downloading a Pak file editor, sifting through them all, and picking out the parts I wanted. It took me a little while because I had so many, there were so many choices. By the time I was finished, I thought to myself... why isn't there a site where you can simply choose from these individual items rather than having to go through all this mess of browsing through pak after pak (if anyone knows of such a site, by all means, let me know). I saw one site that offers downloads of individual crosshairs for Quake2 (which I have linked on my page), but I never managed to find a site that offered the same thing for ALL pak file items. So I said to myself, "Well, since no one else will do it, I will."

And so... check it out:


My HTML knowledge is pretty simple and basic, as you can tell from the simplistic appearance, but hey, it's functional.

If you'd like to contribute something to my archive that you don't see there, hit me up here and we'll figure out how to get the files to me. I will gladly give you proper credit for anything you provide that you have authored. If you have any comments or suggestions, fire away. If you have a Quake2 site of your own and would like to trade links, let me know, I'll gladly link you, hopefully you'll reciprocate.

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/dev/random / Re: the cutest dog ever

« on: March 03, 2008, 10:42:25 AM »

I'm sure people go there just to build their self esteem.

  That was one of the only times I've ever actually LOLed. You get two thumbs up for that quote.   

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Quake / Re: MONSTERKILL 500. March 9th!

« on: March 03, 2008, 09:13:47 AM »

Can I bring some nades? I promise to bring enough for everyone. 

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1v1 and TDM Demos / Re: [EoM]5killz talking shit after get owned.

« on: March 03, 2008, 08:56:17 AM »

This was the dumbest
answer i ever seen.

 

When YOU are the question, it should be assumed that the answer will be equally stupid.

Don't lie, you had to use websters to look up the meanings of half those words anyway.

Q: What sound does it make when you bounce a rock off of the back of Razor's head?

A: TWIT!!!