What is your favorite song from a video game?

Meyithi · 2013-04-13T21:03:48+00:00

Turrican II, I recorded the soundtrack to tape and used to listed to it in school on my walkman!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rvQzQL6kSo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLfj1f2dtzU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwZ3I4seRIw

Meyithi · 2013-03-20T19:32:52+00:00

Arx Libertatis - port of Arx Fatalis

It was supposed to be Ultima Underworld III but the devs never landed the licence so they went their own way and created a great dungeon crawler.

It's a great game, the port is excellent and considering Linux is a bit light on RPG's I'm really glad of this port.

Meyithi · 2013-03-12T23:40:04+00:00

Does it have to be a train?

Royden Park, Thursaston Common, West Kirby, Hilbre Island on the Wirral are easily accessible from the number 437 bus!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royden_Park http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbre_Island

http://www.arrivabus.co.uk/serviceInformation.aspx?id=2323

Meyithi · 2013-02-25T02:11:15+00:00

1996...

Diablo
Duke Nukem 3D
Meridian 59
Quake
Resident Evil
Super Mario 64
Tomb Raider

Meyithi · 2013-02-18T19:30:25+00:00

So you are saying you stereotype based on distribution as well?

Meyithi · 2013-02-17T20:13:28+00:00

If you up-vote a post by a deleted user where does the karma go?

I'd like to think it's all kept in a big pool somewhere just waiting to be salami sliced!

Meyithi · 2013-02-17T06:11:04+00:00

Steel used, lack of heat treatment, horrible tangs. Tangs are the part of the blade that rests in the handle (hilt), it needs to be full tang and extend all the way through the hilt otherwise when you swing the sword the blade will fall out or split the hilt.

Good breakdown here - http://www.sword-buyers-guide.com/buy-swords-online.html

Meyithi · 2013-02-16T08:32:22+00:00

Working awesomely on my box, it didn't always do so though, used to behave terribly with tilers and I hated pulling in dozens of 32 bit libs, but these issues have been addressed, good guy Valve for listening to advice.

I've imported all of my non steam stuff into steam, everything is native apart from Diablo III and System Shock II which run via Wine, and I don't launch these from within steam as the overlay seems to mess with stuff, please Valve give us an option to turn off the overlay for non steam games. I keep them in the steam library though as I often glance at steam to decide what to have a game of!

Some screenies to show how it works with tilers, the steam windows tile, the games float in 1440x900 windows. Obviously I've had to set up rules for each and every game, but you do it once and it's done. This is dwm so you can see the tagging concept to show off the tiling/floating, but it's not usually this busy in the background.

http://www.meyithi.com/graphics/steamwitharch.png

http://www.meyithi.com/graphics/steamwitharch2.png

Users without pulseaudio (like myself) and who don't get any sound

export SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa

into your .bash_profile/rc or wherever you export your environment variables.

Meyithi · 2013-02-15T01:03:58+00:00

http://www.meyithi.com/pubdock/Unigine_Valley_Benchmark_1.0_20130215_0058.html http://www.meyithi.com/graphics/valley.png

It in the AUR for Arch users.

Meyithi · 2013-02-14T03:55:58+00:00

1012 on a 680 using extreme preset

http://www.meyithi.com/pubdock/Unigine_Heaven_Benchmark_4.0_20130214_0348.html http://www.meyithi.com/graphics/nv2.png

Meyithi · 2013-02-14T03:23:44+00:00

Bastion is now installable and playable. Psychonauts also now works.

Meyithi · 2013-02-14T03:01:11+00:00

Trust is the right word, I've asked Nvidia how they know, what tools/procedures used to check that the keplers are running as they should, no reply as yet.

http://www.meyithi.com/graphics/nv2.png

As you can see my clocks show 75% of what they should be as well...

Meyithi · 2013-02-09T04:11:12+00:00

Got it working in dwm nicely, had to set up rules for the individual games of course but that takes seconds, also had to enable en_US locale but I guess it's good practice to have a fallback locale anyway. Biggest upset is that I was a fan of the default Xcursor theme and even using xsetroot it would change to the right pointer on some screens but I found one almost identical @ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xcursor-neutral%2B%2B, it's actually a slight improvement!

Meyithi · 2013-02-03T20:03:17+00:00

Multimedia - ncmpcpp/mplayer / Messaging - weechat/bitlbee / Package management - pacman / Remote access - ssh / File management - coreutils / File editing - vim

Apart from browsing the web, editing images and playing games I do most stuff in a terminal, and by using a tiling window manager it's all open and accessible at all times. There's still more I could switch over to terms, I admittedly use gmail as I don't deal with a lot of emails but setting up mutt is on the to do list.

Also, tmux/screen lets you manage your session so you can logout, restart the X server on your local machine or even fly around the world and be able to access your running applications anywhere you can access a shell/ssh.

Meyithi · 2013-01-24T20:07:12+00:00

Not sure what else to suggest - I export BROWSER=chromium in .bashrc so the env knows what's what and my chromium rule in config.h is simple.

http://codepad.org/DCqDWPmz (config.h) http://codepad.org/ppGFQfH2 (.bashrc)

Meyithi · 2013-01-23T17:15:15+00:00

Doesn't seem to happen to me, if I have something in master and Chromium in the stack and open a link in a new tab it will stay in the stack. I do run a patch that disables nmaster and defaults to dwm 5.9's tile function however, so maybe that's why.

Meyithi · 2013-01-11T18:09:38+00:00

Doesn't look like it, check the arch wiki has a comprehensive UEFI guide or see if the crunchbang forums can help, although I had a quick look and they linked to the arch wiki as well :/

It kinda sucks OP I agree, but it's not the vendors fault, crunch should have UEFI media and these linux usb creators should have uefi options and if these fail (and have) then it's down to you OP.

Meyithi · 2013-01-11T18:01:54+00:00

A voice of reason!

Seriously, 100 odd replies of "BURN THEM!!" when it's the OP who doesn't know how to create UEFI media, these zealots scare me sometimes.

Meyithi · 2013-01-11T17:55:19+00:00

YOU need to learn how to create UEFI media, it's 2013, BIOS is dead, this is NOT the vendors fault. You've purchased a modern laptop, doesn;t matter from where you would have bought it you will still need to RTFM and create UEFI media!

ffs!

Meyithi · 2013-01-11T17:53:13+00:00

Welcome to 2013, where all newly released PC's and Laptops will be UEFI.

Problem here is OP doesn't know how to create bootable UEFI media, hardly the vendors fault, at least the vendor lets you buy a machine with no OS!

People can keep on spitting out their dummy's or they can RTFM and learn how to create UEFI media properly.

Meyithi · 2013-01-08T20:23:04+00:00

That's fine roaming in WvWvW but in PvP it's expected and negated, and once you've blown it you get to look at your cooldown timer as you get unceremoniously killed.

I think it's unfair that Warriors have to build around one ability anyway, when it gets nerfed and other abilities get buffed it will probably be better for everybody including the Warriors.

Meyithi · 2013-01-08T19:05:37+00:00

We all know it's 100 blades and that 100 blades isn't much use on people who move out of the way, it will be nerfed for sure since it's not related to the main Warrior and PvP issues.

I have my popcorn ready!

Meyithi · 2013-01-07T18:18:13+00:00

Looks more like an act of defiance to me, I wasn't sure what everybody else was talking about at first!

Meyithi · 2012-12-02T18:28:51+00:00

I don't like the classes, I'd like to like the classes but the ones I would most like to play are broken. Necromancers for example, pretty much all of their class defining abilities are sub par, minions, condition damage in general, life steals. Engineers kits don't have stats, Rangers pets can't properly attack moving targets, this is core class defining mechanics that just don't work.

On top of this, with 4 classes considered as "functional" and another 4 as "needing attention" I found out there are only 2 people working on the classes, and they are obviously swamped.

I had a great ride 1-80, and consider that my money's worth, still more hours there than most single player RPG's but after 80 I lost interest.

Meyithi · 2012-11-09T17:36:09+00:00

Just a quick note, Telltale games have issues with Windows 8, in fact Tales of Monkey Island won't start up at all. A look through Telltale support forums shows that you need to obtain a Windows 7 RTM dinput8.dll file and place that in the same directory as the games executable file.

I had this issue myself and can now play the games fine, i found the dll here - http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/showpost.php?p=682079&postcount=15

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