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http://www.gamespot.com/articles/ea-golden-age-for-gaming-upon-us-industry-needs-to-embrace-change/1100-6420874/ If I may, for a second; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6DAxC6wp70 I'm not even going to grace this with a description. Let's just get to ripping apart the quotes. Yeah, so long as you have the equivalent of a $1000 US to buy that shiny new PS4 in Brazil. What if you live in Afghanistan or Antarctica. Could I play games there too? As a company, you've successfully failed over the previous decade or so to provide any of those experiences without hindering the player in some way. Your practices net you the Worst Company in America crown. What do you say to that? And what's this about tying franchises together? Am I going to kick around a soccer ball with my Normandy team against Faith and the guys from Battlefield Bad Company 2? By ignoring your long-standing relationships with your previous clients. Great to see you in charge as COO. Gaming as a business is not like other industries. Microtransactions only serve to hurt developers and gamers. Even if they didn't, could you honestly say that the way EA has done it so far hasn't hurt people? And let's look at a different yet specific example. This is from a post on the steam community: "A simpoint is worth 10 cents. So everything on the Sims 3 store costs approximately $74,486.50. As for DLC/the game itself, the total is $439.81. So grand total, you're looking at $74,926.31 to own everything the Sims 3 has to offer." Telling. You ever think that maybe that's what these new people want too? To just sit down and play the feckin' game? I don't think anybody new to gaming would stick around for long if they new they had to keep forking out of their wallets to continue progressing. We need to embrace the fact that billions of people are playing games that are not yours. There are successful F2P games, but the formula is extremely difficult to get right, and turning almost all of your games into this horrible scam can only serve to destroy the integrity of the original design plans the developers wish to turn into reality. You will lose out because you're a businessman, not a gamer, and you fail the grasp why gamers enjoy what they enjoy. We're happy to fork out $60 on release for a new title. Hell, I put down $220 for a Halo: Reach preorder once. But once that game is in our hands, that's where the transaction should end. We go off to play, you go off to fix the game (since apparently all AAA games are now released as Alpha/Beta versions and then just patched as they go) and then make a new one. You might be so familiar with games as music then, because you own some extremely boring franchises. How come games like Fez, the original Halo, Deus Ex and the majority of Nintendo's title are always being replayed when they don't offer any extension content? Maybe it's because they realised how important it was to get the core gameplay experience correct before gipping the consumer? You might want to fix your filter then.

After several teasers...

[4:14:22 AM] Drill Master: Blarg I'm gonna draw rru's website on a piece of paper then roleplay me being admin and banning everyone and it's 4:13AM and I have no fuqing clue what I just said and I might pass out in the next few seconds due to sleep deprivation. [4:14:37 AM] McJobless: [7:16:33 AM] Will Kirkby: McJobless [7:16:43 AM] Will Kirkby: Does ANYTHING make you happy? [7:16:43 AM] McJobless: Yes. [7:16:48 AM] McJobless: Lots of things. [7:17:01 AM] McJobless: Sex/Race/Otherwise edgy jokes [7:17:10 AM] McJobless: My friends, especially a few in particular [7:17:15 AM] McJobless: Jack Daniels & Coke [7:17:16 AM] McJobless: Sam & Max [7:17:36 AM] McJobless: Alice in Wonderland (the American McGee games, the book(s) and the Disney movie) [7:17:47 AM] McJobless: All the old Halo games and the modding tools [7:18:00 AM] McJobless: Having money [7:18:03 AM] McJobless: Spending money [7:18:16 AM] McJobless: Receiving that money back in a well planned money-grabbing scam [7:18:22 AM] McJobless: Katana Umbrellas [7:18:26 AM] McJobless: Scrubs [7:18:38 AM] McJobless: Chocolate Chip Cookies [7:18:46 AM] McJobless: Need for Speed: Most Wanted [7:19:02 AM] McJobless: Dubstep, Hip Hop and other good songs [7:19:04 AM] McJobless: Russians [7:19:09 AM] McJobless: Vodka [7:19:18 AM] McJobless: Spongebob Squarepants [7:19:28 AM] McJobless: Fruitcake (not the taste, just the sight) [7:19:30 AM] McJobless: Fire [7:19:33 AM] McJobless: Explosions [7:19:34 AM] McJobless: Guns [7:19:36 AM] McJobless: Cars [7:19:43 AM] McJobless: Girls with coloured hair [7:19:48 AM] McJobless: Meat pie [7:19:59 AM] McJobless: Guy Fawkes Masks [7:20:07 AM] McJobless: And many, many more things.

Last month, I received a comment on one my blog, which is usually not out of the ordinary. However, this comment was special. After researching what was mentioned in it and looking at it myself, I was floored. However, I did not tell anyone about it because I wanted to be sure it was all legit and not some phony. Late last month, I starting hinting around with two people, jokingly saying "I'm so awesome, this stuff comes to me" and sharing some stuff from it. I am now positive this is the most progress (aside from Noneatme's reverse engineering, which hopefully this can benefit from) ever made in extracting the LEGO Island SI archives. So what am I blabbing on about? Only a new tool that can extract way more stuff from the SI archives than LIME can and has the most documentation on the SI archives to date (unless Noneatme knows these details already). It requires Python 2 to run, has some odd command-line parameters, and appears to be mangling the file names a bit, but it works. Few things I noticed: While it definitely pulls out more than LIME, it is not pulling out all the audio LIME does. So for now, you still need LIME. The BMP images are, for once, actual BMPs. :D :D :D :D There is a megaton of unused content in here. Going back to point 1, you will need LIME to pick out some of the unused audio, but there are piles of stuff in here. It seems many of the Island's residents came in radio contact with Pepper as he is flying the helicopter (Nubby triesto tell him a poem) and Nick wants to hug Pepper after this ( ) If this news is regrettable or joyous I'll leave that to you, but we finally know who Enter and Return are. No more guessing. The jukebox was originally going to have volume controls Not all SI archives can be extracted yet, but that's because it's still in development ...And like always, there is plenty of unknown file types A lot of stuff is still not being extracted, though. I scarcely came across any 3D models, and rarely (if any) a character texture. So eventually even more stuff will be extracted through further exploration of the SI archive format. I've put together a small package of the most interesting stuff, unused and known, I've found. You can get it here (Zip version). The two videos are actually separate in the files. I converted the SMK video to uncompressed AVI using the RAD Video Tools, then pulling it and the WAV audio into VirtualDub and saved them as an uncompressed AVI again, so there should not be much (if any) quality loss.

According to the video description, Its Pete.

To be fair, McDonald's is worse. Yeah, but at least when you're eating their fries a worker doesn't come up to you, take half of your fries and say: "I'm sorry, but you need to use 200 McCoins to have the rest of these fries."

Watch out! A new music has occurred. This is a very fast DnB, and it is wonky. I'm gonna use it for my secret project of which half of the active users here know about. Anyway, I hope you'll enjoy the music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyV2XQ8EBj0 Listen on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/c24dubstep/c24-time-out

Amazing teasers. Amazing trailer. Amazing model. Amazing minifigures. Need I say more? Oh yeah, and Peter Reid screaming.

I have been forced to eat >the words I said last October when this set was announced to be the next CUUSOO (now Ideas) set... and words have never tasted sweeter. Mark Stafford has done it again. True, it's not nearly as complex as Peter Reid's original MOC, but what's important is that it beautifully recaptures the spirit and essence of the Exo-Suit. Plus, two exclusive green LEGOLAND Space astronauts and a robot turtle... what's not to like? Now, here's hoping that Adventures of Steamrod can get 8,000 votes in the next 300 days...

I normally use Bing on Bad Translator, so needless to say I was taken aback by how much more incompetent Transperfect manages to be in only nine random translations. "Are you ready to translate?" becomes "Bersetzen?" And then "It is an ancient mariner, and he stoppeth one of three." gets us " H, trjcy stoppeth. " And here's the clincher: Original text: "How should you like to go up in a swing, up in the air so high?" ...9 translations later, TransPerfect gives us: " Nasl havann energa aufwrts neeli yksekte? " And here's its bizarre path: Transperfect, my foot.

It is my fault for not making it clear in the mod's instructions, but I expect users to read the stickied topics in the modding sections of the forum that tell them how to set up their game for modding. You can't install mods if you haven't made it that far, so why include it in every readme file?

You know, I was somewhat enjoying fathoming how the heck that conversation happened. Now it's kind of mundane.

So, Just another comic about Watchdogs that's nothing like any of the other comics about Watchdogs. And yes, I really would do that. Enjoy!

Original text: "Meat holes. Haha." ...35 translations later, Bing gives us: "ChaCha Rod body" Uhm, what? Original text: "Mad Pain Points are the new type of font-punishment." ...35 translations later, Bing gives us: "Pain is the new generation of stupidity" Bad Translator's words of wisdom. Original text: "All hail Cutesy." ...35 translations later, Bing gives us: "James" This is very peculiar. Cutesy was made by jamesster, weird.

Well, I watched the definition of Bad Translations, and I decided to dump everything he said into it. Original text: "I would not like to buy this record: it is scratched." ...35 translations later, Bing gives us: "Washington CD (fig. a)." Original text: "I would not like to buy this tobacco: it is scratched." ...35 translations later, Bing gives us: "The relationship between cigarette smoking: the original" Original text: "My hover craft is full of eels." ...35 translations later, Bing gives us: "Industrial pipes." Original text: "Do you want to come back to my place, bouncy bouncy?" ...35 translations later, Bing gives us: "Enflatab home" Original text: "If I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?" ...35 translations later, Bing gives us: "Meat holes." Original text: "I am no longer infected." ...35 translations later, Bing gives us: "Form." Original text: "You have beautiful eyes." ...35 translations later, Bing gives us: "... Well for me. .." Original text: "Drop your panties Sir William, I cannot wait until lunchtime." ...35 translations later, Bing gives us: "Panties, Sir William, and packaging." Original text: "My nipples explode with delight!" ...35 translations later, Bing gives us: "It was a mistake ）." Where the heck did that bracket come from? (It totally wasn't Haitian Creole, of course not )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tK0KIr6aDE

I hope this is the last music I make that has a stolen name. I completely forgot to write a blog post about this music, but now, here it is! This is a Liquid DnB track, with 4 different drops. I am mad, yes, I am That Mad Composer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIpalmo0TVs Enjoy! Also enjoy the weird link that this video has. Listen on SoundCloud, even though the video is better: https://soundcloud.com/c24dubstep/life-on-mars Oh, and on YouTube don't forget to set the quality to HD. Otherwise it can, and will, sound bad.

[08:45:19] Pranciblad: Someone messed with my system clock and now skype is f*cked. [08:46:51] jamesster: Phil Fish borked my skype up [08:47:11] jamesster: he made a puzzle in fez where anti-cubes appear at a clock tower, but only at certain times [08:48:47] jamesster: there's four hands on the clock and the longest one to rotate takes... what, several days? [08:49:22] jamesster: but you can trick it by changing the system time [08:49:25] PWNZOR: Yup [08:49:29] jamesster: guess who forgot to close skype first

[5:47:21 PM] McJobless: Do you think there's a certain type of lamp you have to rub to make Kir(k)by or Addict appear? [5:48:48 PM] Alcom1: Kirkby's is a flourecent desk lamp with a USB cable. Addict's is actually a torch. [5:49:13 PM] McJobless: I may have just dump()'d.

This is a modification I made to demonstrate many of the things you can do with cutscenes, as covered in my >Custom Cutscenes tutorial. It changes the 'intro' to LEGO Racers 2, where you first speak to Sparky on Sandy Bay and learn the controls, replacing it with an intro to the island in a movie-style with various camera techniques (and a suitable background song to go with it). You can check out the mod in the video below: http://youtu.be/sVz6zpMtErA Credits: - A huge thanks to le717 for recording this mod for me! - le717 combined the mod with 's >Hudless Arrowless mod, so thank you Segatendo for that - The song that is played is Paradise City by Guns N' Roses. Because this mod contains a song, uploading it would be a breach of copyright. However, other than the song, there is only one file that is modified so I'll post it below. The script below is INTRO1.TXT, which you can find in GAME DATA/SCRIPTS/SANDY ISLAND. I have commented it to some extent to give you an idea of what is going on in each section. The majority of this cutscene didn't actually take that long to produce, the only part that took hours (literally) was the small section with the Sandy Bay racers having a conversation. I tried putting them in various places around the island and doing different things, but it turned out these characters (and them alone, I'm pretty sure) are really buggy to work with as they are both found around the island and conversed with before/after races. If you can avoid using them, I would, hence why that particular section wasn't as good as the rest.

[10:12:01 PM] [sGT] Alcom Isst: Actually I was just trying to keep the question chain going and that's the first thing that came to mind. [10:12:12 PM] [sGT] Alcom Isst: I like chains. [10:12:20 PM] Ramius Antillies: That wasn't even in the same vein as the first two [10:12:46 PM] [sGT] Alcom Isst: But... chains. [10:12:48 PM] Bug Catcher: it's like that HLIIA game. [10:12:52 PM] [sGT] Alcom Isst: [sGT] Alcom Isst sighs. [10:12:54 PM] [sGT] Alcom Isst: Okay. [10:12:55 PM] Bug Catcher: Now I want to watch HLIIA [10:12:58 PM] Bug Catcher: [10:13:12 PM] Ramius Antillies: It's only a chain if it's the same thing. [10:13:23 PM] Ramius Antillies: You can't go: Orange Apple Pear Car [10:13:52 PM] [sGT] Alcom Isst: Orange Apple Pear Bread [10:14:09 PM] Brigs: watermelon [10:14:11 PM] Ramius Antillies: Similar, but still breaks the pattern. [10:14:30 PM] Bug Catcher: Cat Doge Gerbil Airliner [10:14:48 PM] Triangle717: Blackberry Apple Microsoft Google [10:15:46 PM] Triangle717: Nintendo Sony Microsoft Atari [10:16:11 PM] Ramius Antillies: Apparently I've created... [10:16:16 PM] Ramius Antillies: *puts sunglasses on* [10:16:19 PM] Ramius Antillies: ...a chain reaction. [10:16:20 PM] McJobless: bwep [10:16:22 PM] McJobless: f****. [10:16:27 PM] McJobless: WHY'D YOU LET HIM DO THAT? [10:16:31 PM] Ramius Antillies: You were foiled, sir [10:16:33 PM] Bug Catcher: Sony Nintendo Maytag Elvis

[12:41:33] [sGT] Alcom Isst: I want a Mountain Dew Smoothbore Cannon now. [12:43:08] jamesster: Mountain Dew has a boring canon [12:45:47] [sGT] Alcom Isst: In the beginning there was sugar and cat piss. They were combined and carbonated. Thus, Mountain Dew was born.

[14:17:05] Xenfare Spades: My favorite German word is Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsauf­gabenübertragungsgesetz [14:17:07] Stan McStudz: the letter "Phlegm" [14:17:08] Queen Seradima~: SCHMETTERLING [14:17:11] Queen Seradima~: KRANKENWAGEN [14:17:26] [sGT] Alcom Isst: Ehh... Danish word for airplane is far better. 'flyvemaskine' [14:17:39] [sGT] Alcom Isst: The pronounciation only makes it better. [14:17:54] Xenfare Spades: Can any of you even PRONOUNCE Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz? [14:18:05] Stan McStudz: > [Monday, 31 March 2014 14:17:05 Xenfare Spades] My favorite German word is Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsauf­gabenübertragungsgesetz supercalifragelisticexpialidocious [14:18:08] Stan McStudz: FFFFF [14:18:16] * [sGT] Alcom Isst pronounces Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz [14:18:31] Xenfare Spades: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinderkennzeichnungs-_und_Rindfleischetikettierungs%C3%BCberwachungsaufgaben%C3%BCbertragungsgesetz [14:19:02] Stan McStudz: "The name is an example of the virtually unlimited compounding of nouns that is possible in many Germanic languages. " [14:19:11] Stan McStudz: PFFFFFT [14:19:14] Xenfare Spades: yep [14:19:23] [sGT] Alcom Isst: See also: Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft [14:19:43] Bug Catcher: ........I'm half convinced you guys are just making s*** up now

[7:43:36 PM] Sadie: what is a rock raider [7:48:40 PM] Sadie: what is a rockwhale [7:48:57 PM] Lair: a rock raider is a moron hired for cheap mining labor [7:49:08 PM] Lair: a rockwhale is some fat clump of dirt with feet and eyes [7:49:15 PM] Lair: who can swim through rock but not water

[10:13:21 PM] origamiguy: fun fact: the welsh count sexual partners to go to sleep [10:13:57 PM] Doc: Aren't you clever [10:14:07 PM] origamiguy: I came up with that on the spot [10:14:11 PM] origamiguy: and I'm proud of it [10:14:59 PM] Doc: I'll try not to pop your happy bubble for this one [10:15:21 PM] origamiguy: thanks, I guess? [10:15:26 PM] Cirevam: Doc counts the number of dreams he's crushed to go to sleep [10:15:30 PM] Doc: It only sounds a little odd [10:15:39 PM] Doc: Yay dream dust [10:15:44 PM] Doc: SSSSSNNNNNNIIFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

[1/23/2014 7:58:34 PM] Brigs: The L.U.R. Department of Sanity has now officially labeled the LEGO Message Boards an Intellectual Disaster Area.

[00:53:11] Will Kirkby: tbh Outside is really bad [00:53:19] Will Kirkby: I mean a linear leveling system? [00:53:23] Will Kirkby: who the f**** came up with that [00:53:40] McJobless: Worst problem is the difficulty curve. [00:53:57] McJobless: It's okay for like the first little while, but then it becomes a f****ing loop-de-loop. [00:54:03] Will Kirkby: yeah [00:54:13] Will Kirkby: and don't even get me started on the lack of character creator [00:54:31] Will Kirkby: devs were like "nah who wants that" and decided "basically random" was the way to go [00:54:39] Cirevam: Random character stats with no chance to re-roll [00:54:42] Cirevam: And permadeath [00:54:44] McJobless: Well, you change your apperance, but it's really costly. [00:54:49] jamesster: the police chases are quite realistic [00:54:57] Will Kirkby: [00:54] McJobless: <<< Well, you change your apperance, but it's really costly.and often doesn't work out as intended [00:55:08] jamesster: the AI for the politicians is really dumb though [00:55:23] Cirevam: The random status effects are annoying too. They're almost always debuffs and it's hard to pronounce them. [00:55:27] McJobless: Also, that physics engine...dafaq is that about? [00:55:32] Will Kirkby: [META] @jamesster all humans are players. No "AI" [00:55:55] Cirevam: The physics are pretty consistent at least. I don't have to worry about my car flipping when I drive over a pebble. [00:56:00] Will Kirkby: this is true [00:56:03] jamesster: But they act like robots [00:56:16] Will Kirkby: I've yet to see anyone flip and embed their plane in the ground upside down [00:56:17] jamesster: They gotta be bots [00:56:20] McJobless: But no double-jump? What if I have to go destroy a poster on top of a roof? [00:56:57] Cirevam: Grappling hooks and ladders exist. Rope physics are top-notch, but there's the tangling bug. [00:57:02] McJobless: And what's with gunplay? Recoil is way too unrealistic... [00:57:29] Cirevam: In what way? Too low or too high? [00:57:53] McJobless: Way too high. It's like you'd need to be a trained professional to use weapons... [00:57:56] McJobless: That's ridiculous. [00:58:11] McJobless: And what's with the player economy? [00:58:43 | Edited 00:58:50] Will Kirkby: Be nice if we could get a standardized currency system across all regions [00:59:15] McJobless: The very least would be access to all the deleted content. [00:59:23] McJobless: I'd like to see what those Dodos were like. [00:59:40] Cirevam: Maybe they were just alpha content [01:00:02] McJobless: Earth Version 0.0.01: Now a ball of lava [01:00:12] Will Kirkby: no that's like [01:00:25] Will Kirkby: that was the patch after famed player "Jesus" was born [01:00:39] Will Kirkby: currently we're on 20.1.4 [01:00:39] McJobless: Wasn't his K/D 10? [01:00:49] Will Kirkby: No idea [01:01:04] Will Kirkby: gotta commend him on that item duplication glitch [01:01:14] McJobless: All I know is he used noclip and /quit. [01:01:45] Will Kirkby: nah he didn't /quit [01:01:52] Will Kirkby: a bunch of other players got rather annoyed at him [01:01:57] Will Kirkby: something about claiming to know the developers [01:02:00] McJobless: He just changed servers. [01:02:20] Cirevam: I heard he was hacking [01:02:20] McJobless: Went to a private dev server, of course...those sneaky devs. [01:02:27] Cirevam: Some resurrection cheat after the roman team killed him [01:02:35] Will Kirkby: yeah [01:02:50] Will Kirkby: btw, anyone know any tricks for the girlfriend questline? [01:02:52] McJobless: That guild disbanded a long time ago. [01:03:03] McJobless: [01:02] Will Kirkby: <<< btw, anyone know any tricks for the girlfriend questline?Use +1 b**** Slap [01:03:15] McJobless: Sometimes it helps if you /give chocolate [01:03:25] Will Kirkby: noted, thanks! [01:03:29] McJobless: Other times you might need a 10 minute timeout. [01:03:41] jamesster: I just like the mini games and vehicles [01:03:43] Cirevam: You have to be careful. Random character stats means they have random preferences. [01:03:43] McJobless: I can't wait for the zombie mod addon. [01:04:48] McJobless: You also have to watch out for their 12-day AoE attack that happens once a month. [01:05:16] Will Kirkby: yeah I've heard about that one [01:05:30] Cirevam: 12 days? Aussie women have really long attack periods... [01:05:30] Will Kirkby: last time I tried the girlfriend questline it kinda seemed like she had it active all the time [01:06:12] McJobless: As it turns out I activated the quest too late because the devs put a stupid time-limit in secret. [01:06:40] McJobless: Too bad this game doesn't have a guidebook. [01:06:53] McJobless: Well, it does, but they're pretty old. [01:07:08] Will Kirkby: there's a player-made one called "Wikipedia" but it's a bit unwieldy [01:07:39] McJobless: I heard "The Bible" works when you go to some of the less updated areas. [01:07:48] Cirevam: I've heard of "life hacks" that are supposedly legal but they're really fishy. [01:08:25] McJobless: Apparently you can obtain "The Anarchist Cookbook", but the police ban you for griefing. [01:09:15] McJobless: I gotta go now, my Hyngine level is dipping into the red. [01:09:26] McJobless: Need to play the "Shower" mini-game. [01:09:33] Will Kirkby: okiedokie [01:09:35] Cirevam: Good luck with that [01:09:54] McJobless: Hopefully will make it to level 12 this time : D

[12:16:47] Conference call, duration 00:00. [12:17:02] Ciprian: I DIDN'T DO IT [12:17:23] Ciprian: I PROMISE ON THE GREAT POTATO HIGH IN THE SKY

[removed a couple irrelevant messages, but still provides all the necessary context] @ karsten : (13 January 2014 - 02:31 PM)mmm the forum is kind a dead @ karsten : (13 January 2014 - 02:31 PM)did not expect that @ Fushigisaur : (13 January 2014 - 02:40 PM)I wouldn't consider it dead when we are haiving a nice little discussion about the UFO theme over in the Time Cruisers topic @ jamesster : (13 January 2014 - 02:52 PM)yep a forum is certainly dead when people talk on it and do things with it every day @ jamesster : (13 January 2014 - 02:53 PM)activity most certainly means dead @ jamesster : (13 January 2014 - 02:54 PM)wow that must mean I'm dead @ jamesster : (13 January 2014 - 02:54 PM)we're all dead @ jamesster : (13 January 2014 - 02:55 PM)the zombie apocalypse has always been here but we've been too alive to notice we're dead

[11:50:25 PM] Joe: Now i have a better idea what to except when going to Australia [11:50:47 PM] McJobless: It'll go like this when you get to Australia. [11:51:05 PM] McJobless: Firstly, you'll walk off the plane and wonder if you somehow made it to Asia instead of Australia. [11:53:02 PM] McJobless: You'll walk through security which are quite frisk-happy and love to ask your random, annoying and ridiculous questions, and if you so much as laugh at their accent, be prepared for a smack-down from the army-sized security force nearby. [11:53:41 PM] McJobless: You'll then walk into the food court and wonder why you're back in America, before realising that the food portions are tiny and the prices are over-inflated. [11:54:22 PM] McJobless: You'll then walk out to the Taxi bay and attempt to figure out why every single driver looks exactly the same, and why the prices for a short taxi trip are equal to launching a space shuttle to the moon. [11:54:46 PM] McJobless: Once you get to the CBD, you'll be confused at why you've suddenly arrived in London. [11:55:41 PM] McJobless: You'll walk around and notice that the hobos are calling you cunts, the teenagers are all cosplayers with nothing better to do than sit outside a church and scare the living ghosts out of the priests, and that Woolworthes sell a great chicken. [11:55:56 PM] McJobless: So, you'll then probably want to know what to do for entertainment, right? [11:55:59 PM] McJobless: Well, too bad. [11:56:34 PM] McJobless: You'll go ask your way to IMAX, and find that every single person you talk to has no idea what an "IMAX" is and suggests that you should "f**** off, c***." [11:56:57 PM] McJobless: You'll then figure out its in Darling Harbour, and make the spectacularly stupid desicion to get a bus there. [11:57:17 PM] McJobless: You'll get on the bus and the bus driver will immediately kick you off for having money. [11:57:48 PM] McJobless: So, you eventually somehow know to go to a newsagency and buy a prepaid ticket. But then you find out they've closed for the day because "Couldn't be arsed". [11:57:55 PM] McJobless: So you suddenly realise 7/11 sells tickets. [11:58:08 PM] McJobless: But then they tell you they only sell weekly tickets at extortionate amounts. [11:59:04 PM] McJobless: So you buy the ticket, get on the bus, fumble with the ticket at the driver gets increasingly more annoyed, even though he's the one causing the problems, and then proceed to stand-up on the bus, because every other seat is taken by familys, druggos and morons. [11:59:21 PM] McJobless: Then you get to Darling Harbour and you'll accidentally walk into the Chinese Gardens. [12:00:08 AM] McJobless: You run around for 6 hours not knowing why you're stuck in France, before finally finding the exit and walking through a gaint fountain of birds that are practically painting the roads with bird-s***. [12:00:49 AM] McJobless: Then you see the IMAX theatre near the ACTUAL harbour, because you find out that buses are afraid of water and they decided to put the bus-route 1KM away from the actual Harbour itself. [12:01:14 AM] McJobless: So you walk under the Harbour Bridge, pissing your pants as you hear the creaks and groans of the Bridge which sounds like it's about to collapse at any minute. [12:01:39 AM] McJobless: Once you've reached the Harbour, you're then trampled by the thousands of people flocking to laugh at the street performers. [12:02:15 AM] McJobless: You'll see some aboriginals blowing their pipes, some guy riding a s***ty bike and some chick singing a song. [12:02:58 AM] McJobless: Once you get up and carefully move past all the people telling you "Get out of my f****ing way or I'll deck ya", you'll then find out that the enterance to the IMAX theatre is next to this crappy cafe that sells nothing from this century. [12:03:24 AM] McJobless: You're puzzled, so you walk up the 10 billion stairs it takes to get to the actual reception of the theatre, before making a shocking realisation. [12:03:35 AM] McJobless: That the movies IMAX is presenting are also from a century ago. [12:04:08 AM] McJobless: So, you're tired and you're bored, and you shell out your arm and leg to buy a ticket, and after about 5 hours of waiting by the frozen ice-cream stand, you finally get to go in. [12:04:25 AM] McJobless: You find yourself crampped between a fat guy and 19 6-year olds. [12:04:53 AM] McJobless: You then have a miserable experience because you realise that the 3D glasses they give you are extremely tiny and can't fit around your head. [12:05:16 AM] McJobless: You eventually leave at about 10PM, staggering around, jet-lagged, hungry, thirst, tired and not in a good mood. [12:05:29 AM] McJobless: You then realise you've no idea how to get to your accomidation. [12:05:54 AM] McJobless: You ask around and they all tell you "Keep walking, drugged c***" [12:06:01 AM] McJobless: So, you decide the train is a good idea. [12:06:05 AM] McJobless: This is not a good idea. [12:06:54 AM] McJobless: You get on the train at 11PM at night, which also happens to be the time when every single moron teenager with half-a-brain-cell who is doped to high-heaven is also taking the trains to Kings Cross, aka "The Murderbowl" [12:07:43 AM] McJobless: So, you get beat up on the train for not lickiing the shoes of every single person in the carriage, but eventually you arrive at Central, and you walk out. [12:08:02 AM] McJobless: Then you panic, because Central station is like Hedge Mazes on hardcore. [12:08:22 AM] McJobless: Finally, at 2PM, you find out that if you keep going right, you eventually get to an exit. [12:09:00 AM] McJobless: You walk out and promptly get punched in a gut by a hobo, before officers walk by, look at you and then continue onwards, because you're a tourist and nobody likes tourists. [12:09:31 AM] McJobless: So, you crawl your way to some s***ty hotel in Central, which is filled with ganstas and prostitutes, and realise reception has chucked a sick day. [12:09:44 AM] McJobless: So you then just crash in the lobby and hope that tomorrow will be a lot better. [12:09:49 AM] McJobless: Spoiler Alert: It won't. [12:09:51 AM] McJobless: The End.

Some chat DM and I had on the Minecraft server. 11:21:53 JimbobJeffers: Can you see any jungles anywhere on Dynmap? I don't see any within 1000 blocks 11:22:07 Drill Master: nopw 11:22:25 JimbobJeffers: Oh I've found one at -2800 11:22:26 Drill Master: I'm just gonna walk til I find one 11:22:30 JimbobJeffers: Maybe I'll just tp there 11:22:37 Drill Master: cheating 11:22:58 JimbobJeffers: I'm just cutting out 20 minutes of travel 11:23:05 Drill Master: cheating 11:23:24 JimbobJeffers: Hey, I'm the mod here, and since this server started we've allowed tping anywhere 11:23:38 JimbobJeffers: It's just a way of cutting out time when you've already been somewhere 11:23:42 Drill Master: CHEATING!!!!!!!!!! 11:24:01 JimbobJeffers: *Psst, guys, I think he's a broken record* 11:24:14 Teleported JimbobJeffers to -2799.50, 70.50, 200.50 11:24:19 JimbobJeffers: DUM DUM DUUUUM 11:24:23 Drill Master: CH E EE TTT IING G G!! !! ! 11:24:32 JimbobJeffers: YOU MISSED OUT THE A 11:25:04 Drill Master: I skipped it 11:25:18 JimbobJeffers: That's cheating 11:25:42 Teleported JimbobJeffers to 0.50, 70.50, 470.50 11:25:48 JimbobJeffers: Ta da 11:26:32 Drill Master: what you cheated? 11:26:47 JimbobJeffers: Lol, no, I just grabbed some cocoa beans and I'm back 11:27:55 Drill Master: I'll show you I'm gonna walk to a jungle! you kids and your fancy tps and your moddy powers 11:28:07 JimbobJeffers: Haha, MAKE MY DAY! 11:29:13 Drill Master: Back in MY day, Survival meant digging a hole in the ground and hiding in it all through the night 11:29:25 JimbobJeffers: Hehe 11:29:35 JimbobJeffers: Back in MY day, Survival meant you had just one life 11:29:43 JimbobJeffers: But this is RRU, sonny, and things have changed. 11:31:37 Drill Master: Back in MY day, I could hold more crap than this 11:31:57 JimbobJeffers: Back in MY day, we didn't have horses, we had to WALK! 11:32:40 Drill Master: Back in MY day, we had to kill sheep for wool! 11:33:08 JimbobJeffers: Back in MMMYYY day, we didn't have BUCKETS to transfer WATER! 11:33:30 Drill Master: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA and HA! I found a brown sheep! 11:33:42 JimbobJeffers: HAAAA I ALREADY HAVE TWO!!! 11:34:29 Drill Master: Back in MY day, we didn't have admins that cheated to get what they want! 11:34:54 JimbobJeffers: BAACK IN MYYY DAY, WE DIDN'T HAVE PEOPLE COMPLAINING ABOUT ADMINS!!! 11:35:29 Drill Master: BACK IN MY DAY, 11:35:31 Drill Master died

[3:56:59 PM] Stan McStudz: All it needs is WINE, and I'm set. [3:57:41 PM] Customer Sir Mounted: the wild mcstudz is attempting to get his craptop drunk [3:57:43 PM] Customer Sir Mounted: god help us [3:57:44 PM] Stan McStudz: Easier said than done though.

[9:53:31 AM] McJobless: "PS: I'm much better behaved when I have something productive to do. Go figure." [9:53:37 AM] McJobless: This comes from the mouth of Tracker. [11:13:35 AM] Sideburns: I'll give him something productive to do: learn how to stop making everyone deplore you. [11:13:58 AM] McJobless: [11:24:14 AM] Jim Brickkeeper: If you do that there shall be an RRU holiday in your name.

[3:09:13 PM] jamesster: my gf is a superhero [3:09:15 PM] jamesster: she's invisible

[6:35:12 PM] Sadie: On another note, do you think it's possible to be /too/ analytical?

I sense a fight coming... Bring it on! I'm a dragon so I'll just eat all of you. Now, now. Let's slow down and perform some logical analysis before we jump to conclusions. Santa Claus is a fantasy character with magical powers who works with elves. Fantasy characters with magical powers who work with elves typically appear in fairy tales. Fairy types are super effective against dragon types. By my calculations, Santa Claus is a dragon slayer.

Later, after I posted this (after getting high on laughing my head off thanks to the LMBs), I started saying this line as "Take me down to the paragraph city, where the girls are green and the grass is pretty". I....

My favourite trick is driving really fast around the island and crashing into random people like WOAH WHAT THE HECK YOU SURVIVED CHECK OUT TEH PRETTY COLOURZ

That is easy to avoid. It happens when you land while trying to steer. Being carful with your steering while on bumpy sections of track is the key to keeping it from going out of line.

Beginners Guide To Modding Rock Raiders The beginners guide to learn how to mod LEGO Rock Raiders for PC! Table of Contents Introduction Dreams of Modding Getting Started: Tools Getting Started: Environment Getting Started: Things to Know Getting Started: Development Pathways First Mod: Change the 'Loading' Text Second Mod: Custom Menu Background Third Mod: Enable the Tunnel Transport Fourth Mod: Replace a Level Distributing your Mod Video Tutorials: LRR Modding Tutorial - Part 1 (WAD Extraction) LRR Modding Tutorial - Part 2 (Unlock levels & Debug Keys) Special Thanks I would like to say "thank-you" to the Rock Raiders United Community. Without this great group of people Rock Raiders would still be just another failed game with long lost fans. The original sole purpose of Rock Raiders United was to bring together fans and put life back into this game through modding. With over 1500 members, this community has done just that and continues to grow. [This tutorial is not complete yet]

I had the same problem on Windows 7, but I sorted it out. Go into the CD's files and run the setup in compatibility mode and as administrator.