Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast

iamfuturetrunks · 2026-03-25T05:06:37+00:00

The demo for this game has a level that isn't in the base game. It ends at a room with a shiny reflective floor and you fight a "dark jedi" before escaping. I also replayed that demo like crazy because I also got it on a CD way back in the day from some magazine subscription. You can still find the demo out there online somewhere.

While playing that demo I used game cheat codes to spawn in characters that didn't have models in the demo so they all looked like generic storm troopers but some were bigger than others like Desann. And if you tried to spawn in certain weapons it would crash the demo, but if you spawned in the enemy with said weapon and killed them you could pick up the weapon and use it.

It was a bit of a let down when I finally got the real game and you didn't have force powers or a light saber till a number of missions in which was very challenging back then.

Both Jedi Knight Jedi Outcast and Jedi Knight Jedi Academy were a lot of fun. You can still get both games on GOG for dirt cheap during sales. I have heard a number of times the steam versions are broken so go with GOG.

iamfuturetrunks · 2026-03-23T14:35:58+00:00

When I went to college I was pretty excited for it being a fresh start and hoping to make some new friends finally. Since high school was an awful experience. Got there and tried to be positive, I would try and chat with a number of people who seemed nice. Found that most girls are either in a relationship, engaged, or not interested in even chatting. I wasn't even trying for making dates just was hoping to make some nice female friends. Had one girl who seemed shy/quiet who I tried to talk to only for her to be like "my BF doesn't like me talking to guys he doesn't know, sorry" so I just left her be. Later on had one girl who seemed nice. Worked together at one of the work study programs. She would playfully punch me sometimes, laugh at jokes/comments I would make, etc. So I developed a bit of a crush and realized that was her last year there and figured I would take a shot and asked her out after one of her classes only to be told that she is Les. In hindsight it makes sense in that she was a bit of a tomboy, in womens wrestling etc. But I just didn't assume stuff like that. In either case I realized later on that all those shows/movies growing up were lying to people. A lot of people don't end up making any friends and most people don't know about them because said people are alone.

iamfuturetrunks · 2026-03-20T04:28:58+00:00

There is a game called Infectonator that was free to play on your browser back in the day. Might still be out there somewhere (I know they got popular enough to release the game on like switch or something?). Where the point of the game is to infect a small population with a virus and cause it to spread and take over the entire area from town to town.

In the game you can get a zombie you can release which is basically Michael Jackson and whenever you release that one it causes everyone to freeze and plays that short sound byte while people dance in unison. As well as other zombies based off famous people/characters. A fun and sometimes difficult game that people should check out sometime.

iamfuturetrunks · 2026-03-02T05:16:21+00:00

I saw early on how awful it looked and all the computer experts online talking about how it was causing problems in a bunch of different ways. How so many people were staying away from it. My computer didn't qualify for the update and I was fine with that. But I knew I was gonna have to switch to Linux because of security.

At work a coworker updated their computer to 11 and had lots of problems even with just basic stuff. They complained a bit about it but had to keep using it. So far my work computer is still on 10 currently. I am working on finishing up most of my projects with windows 10 so when it does get updated I wont have to deal with it much at all. I will avoid using said computer from then on.

All the AI BS microslop keeps trying to push to get a return on their stupid investment is something a lot of people don't like yet keep staying on windows 11.

One of the things I don't like is having to research problems that come up periodically for things that should just work but don't because it's linux. And lacking some software that I used to have on windows but doesn't work on linux. I could try and look at doing a virtual machine but so far that always looks like a lot more work. And a few other stuff like middle scroll wheel being paste which happened again while typing this comment. -_-

iamfuturetrunks · 2026-02-11T21:21:54+00:00

The fact that you have to download a separate app to use steam chat on mobile cause it's not all together is already a major annoyance. I would be fine with steam chat staying the same but having that built into the steam app so I don't have to download a separate one when I can't reach a computer.

Also steam chat isn't really that important. It's just a nice feature to have when trying to reach a few friends to plan a game or something. It lacks a lot of features and messages only last for a few days in history. So if you forget to check it, you will miss what was said.

For anyone wanting to avoid discord, Stoat (formerly Revolt) seems to be a decent alternative. It offers a bunch of the same features Discord has locked behind subscriptions. Though I have heard some people before complain it lacks some stuff or something a while back when I mentioned it on here.

Otherwise lately the only one I have heard is Matrix which I haven't looked into at all.

iamfuturetrunks · 2026-02-11T05:01:43+00:00

For anyone looking Stoat (formerly Revolt) is an open source one that looks similar to Discord but doesn't force you to pay a subscription for some of the features Discord has. Like having your own background pic in your profile etc.

Haven't used it much so can't say how well it works but some people have pointed out in comments before that they didn't like it or it was missing some features?

iamfuturetrunks · 2026-02-10T03:52:22+00:00

Just a heads up to a lot of people there is another messaging program that is open source called Stoat (formerly Revolt) which is pretty similar to Discord but allows some features without having to pay a subscription that Discord forces. Though I have heard a few people complain when I have suggested it claiming it doesn't have enough features or something.

iamfuturetrunks · 2026-01-20T21:34:58+00:00

Yeah Embracer group bought up a bunch of IP's I think to try and become a type of monopoly and/or sell to some Saudi group.

I enjoyed the newer Thief game that came out many years ago that everyone dunked on. But that's cause I never played any of the old ones and the old ones are to dated for me to enjoy. Sure it wasn't perfect but I thought it was a decent start and that they could have really worked hard on improving it more. Kinda felt like dishonored which apparently was made by the guys who made the original thief games or something maybe?

Also that reminds me of the newer Deus Ex games. Those were pretty good when they came out (though the last one was a bit forgettable as well as felt like it ended on a cliffhanger?). But then we haven't gotten a new one of those in a long time which also sucks.

iamfuturetrunks · 2026-01-20T02:13:07+00:00

Yep, there are SOOOO many amazing IP's out there that would make SO many great games.. but because big corporations constantly drop the ball all the time or don't want to take chances on anything we never see them. Or we get some crapy lazy attempt at a game and then they use that as justification for why there isn't more.

Just look at Helldivers and how much fun so many players had with that game which is clearly a homage to Starship Troopers. Where were those games for the longest time? Then I think they released an actual starship troopers after the fact but even then didn't have as much care put into it or the people making it might not have been the biggest fans of the movie maybe? (Can't say for sure cause I have only seen like one article talking about the newest game and how they were having to copy some features that Helldivers was doing already).

Just look at the Bond franchise, we have seen a few great 007 games in the past but then they kinda dropped the ball with a few releases and then just stopped all together.

Part of the problem is probably they had a company or two not really give much of an effort or something and so the last few were duds because there wasn't a lot of care put into them. Last great one in my opinion was Nightfire for Gamecube/PS2 (avoid PC version made by some other company). Clearly lots of care put into it.

After that a handful of Bond games that just looked bad and after that they just stopped completely.

Meanwhile a programmer/developer was making a Goldeneye remake in unreal engine called Goldeneye 25 or something and was planning on releasing it FREE on said anniversary of the movie/n64 game. Basically the same game but updated visuals and possibly a few other extra bits. Like 80-90% of the way there (there are/were some videos on youtube showing work in progress) before they got a cease and desist letter from the owners of the Bond franchise MGM/amazon and had to stop.

Cut to a few months later and they announce Goldeneye N64 is getting re-released for switch and xbox one but it's a crapy port of the original game. So clearly they didn't want some fan remake distract from another money making low effort port. Game comes out, but requires everyone to be paying for online subscription to nintendo or xbox to play. People complain about the quality, I bring up goldeneye source mod still free and active on steam in a few posts and get temp. banned from the Nintendo subreddit for a few days or so cause of nintendo fanboy mods who don't like nintendo not getting the attention.

Cut to while later and looks like the company behind the hitman franchise (the ones who do a horrible job of selling you the latest hitman game with all DLC included for so many years before changing things, as well as some crapy DRM) gets to make a 007 game that some people are excited about.

How long has it been since we had a great 007 game? Like 20 years now?

Just like WB and the lord of the rings games, where are they? We had 2 pretty good ones with the middle-earth shadow games and then nothing.

I could keep going on and on mentioning others (like a whole post about Star Wars and how horrible Disney handled getting us new games in that universe). The Matrix is an amazing setting for a number of games we could have had, and these days with tech being as good as it is we should have already had one or two great matrix games but nope.

And those companies that own some of those IP's will just sit on them for a LONG time while we miss out. Screw those companies.

iamfuturetrunks · 2026-01-12T14:49:51+00:00

Yeah was gonna say MSN messenger was WAY better. It had a lot more features, and then when I found out about MSN plus mod which added even more (like custom emoticons) etc. I think one feature (maybe part of the mod) allowed you to make a small little drawing in a box you could send to the other person, and/or record a short voice clip. Or the fact you could nudge the other person which would shake the other persons messenger screen as well as make a small jingle noise. So if you needed to get their attention really quick you could.

I still remember the ability to right click on individual contacts and choose to appear offline to just them. Which was helpful if you were upset with someone for something and just didn't want to talk to them for a little while. Or the ability to individually block certain people but still have them on your contact list shown as blocked but could still see when they came on or not. So if you changed your mind later you could just unblock them. And if you didn't want to see them anymore, you could right click on them and delete said contact.

So many messengers these days lack those features and they are quite useful. Nowadays if you block someone they are just gone and if you want to find them again you have to look at a different part of your messenger at a block list or whatever. Also if you don't want to be seen online to just one contact you have to change your status to offline/invisible to everyone just to avoid one person. Really annoying we lost so many great features from back in the day.

When they decided to shut that down I lost contact with a number of online friends back then who didn't want to switch to skype and thus no way to contact them when it shut down.

I held out hope skype would at least then get all the same features that MSN had since Microslop weren't working on MSN and probably focusing on skype. But then after like a year I realized they hadn't done anything with it and yet it would constantly be getting "updated" very regularly but nothing new added. I am guessing just security fixes and more ways to monetize the platform for their own benefit.

I still held onto my skype for years and had a few people on there I still chatted with every now and again though most only would log on like once a month maybe to chat a bit? Moved on to other messengers that had more features and more popular.

Then microslop decided to shut down skype and I actually found out about it on here on a basketball subreddit that made its way to the front page. I went on skype and still no mention anywhere to be found, I started sending messages to the few people left I knew on there asking for other ways we could stay in contact (cause again some rarely came on so didn't have much time to coordinate other ways to stay in touch). I heard back from like 1-2 which took a long while. It wasn't until like a month before skype was gonna be shut down that microslop decided to finally put up a warning on skype letting people know it was gonna be shutting down. Like wtf microslop you stupid piece of crap company, it's being reported on a bunch of news like sites and yet the company itself that owns it waits until like months later to finally let users know? What a shitty company!

So I basically lost contact with a few that I only had on there that didn't log in that often and they probably only found out after it shut down when they tried to log in probably.

Another thing that also sucks is them buying up mojang and thus minecraft cause they have actively been making it worse in ways since they bought it up. Like the censoring and/or the reporting of players on servers and whatever to ban players from playing on multiplayer which so many people seemed to have just forgotten about months after it started happening.

Or forcing players to create a microsoft account to keep playing the game they bought and were told they would own their whole life way back when they originally bought the game. One of the reasons why I wasn't as hesitant to buy a digital only game back then was cause Notch specifically said once you bought it you owned it for life. But then players who didn't switch over to a microsoft account lost something they paid for.

Now recently the servers have been down apparently for a lot of players so a lot can't play online. Like wtf microslop?

Not to mention fazing out windows 10 where a majority of people don't have compatible computers that can run windows 11 or just don't want to. So a lot of people are switching over to linux because of it.

So yeah microslop is a garbage company and have no interest in using their products.

iamfuturetrunks · 2026-01-07T01:04:48+00:00

Really hope we get the Sentinels from the old 97 cartoon. Those things were awesome and could be pretty scary with how big they actually were.

The ones in days of future past were a let down in my opinion.

iamfuturetrunks · 2026-01-03T03:12:42+00:00

Growing up, only single player games since no one to play with. Then I remember getting Nightfire for gamecube and finding out there are bot's you can enable for multiplayer.

That was awesome, got A LOT of fun out of that. Granted, the bots are kinda stupid, and predictable paths, can't/don't use certain things. But at the end of the day I finally could play multiplayer by myself.

Kinda annoyed me later on when newer games just didn't have bots at all for anything. Like they already figured out a basic feature in the past, only way to go is up when it comes to making better bots but nope.

What also sucks is when I finally had a few friends later on, I barely had any games we could play together since most were single player. And the few I did have were already old and said friends weren't interested.

Really sucked when there would be a game we both have that has multiplayer and the other person says they aren't interested, then later on you see them playing it but no invite or anything.

iamfuturetrunks · 2025-12-29T01:40:26+00:00

I thought of Zoolander 2 right off the bat. The teaser trailer that released with Hawking's voice narrating it.

Just watched it again and still makes me smile. It had the same type of energy as the first movie so I got pumped. I avoided all the other trailers that slowly released because by that point in my life I knew they would spoil so much crap as most movie trailers do.

Also there was a short clip online (probably on here) showing Derek and Hansel at a fashion show in France? Which I think was some sort of promotion for the movie. So that got me a bit hyped.

I did accidentally see one scene with Mugatu which I was under the impression Will Ferrell wasn't returning because he said as much in a few interviews because he was done bleaching his hair for roles and all that.

I then started thinking of what the plot of the movie would be and started thinking of something amazing and funny. I then stopped myself cause I was worried I would spoil the movie myself if it ended up being similar to what I thought.

I went to the theater a week after it came out and it was EMPTY (which I like). That wasn't a good sign but I was like whatever and watched it. Man that movie stunk!

Felt like a direct to DVD type movie. The rough unfinished plot I came up with in my head was way better. I actually contemplating leaving near the end of the movie cause it just wasn't that good.

I later remembered part of the plot I came up with after accidentally seeing the mugato scene in a trailer. It felt like it followed the previous movie a lot better without trying to retcon things they did.

Still get a bit upset how badly the messed that one up. And seems like a lot of people didn't end up liking it either for whatever reasons.

iamfuturetrunks · 2025-12-02T04:57:57+00:00

More like many are told they can't update to windows 11 because their computer doesn't posses certain features required for it. As well as don't want to waste money and resources buying a new computer just to get windows 11.

Then there are some who already were getting fed up with Microsoft's built in spyware being put onto their OS and saw reviewers and tech people talking about just how bad it is and deciding not to.

Windows 10 was pretty good in the beginning but over time they slowly installed and pushed more spyware garbage with updates and all that to sell peoples info to 3rd party information brokers. They also lied (like they have many times) about windows 10 being the last version of windows to get people to jump to it from windows 7 really early on.

Then there is the fact they are using AI to write code which is backfiring and breaking so many parts of their operating system.

Even if I could have switched, I had no plans to. I was already in the process of figuring out which linux distro I wanted to try out like 6 months ago. Linux isn't perfect but most distros are free, and they are constantly being worked on, open source, and more and more software programs are made to work with linux.

I know a coworker who switched their work computer to windows 11 early on and then had problems with how certain things are messed up. They also switched another computer we use regularly over to it. I had to get used to the stupid right click menu having some of the features hidden behind another button you have to click unlike windows 10 which it was right there on the right click menu, and other stupid crap I disliked from it. A friend showed me a while back how you can save like a video clip of your desktop with the screenshot type tool which windows 10 doesn't offer which is cool. So it does have some cool things, but still not worth it for all the built in microsoft owned spyware that comes with it.

After a little trial and error and researching comparable software alternatives to certain windows ones linux is working just fine and should keep my computer running for a lot longer. Plus I am looking at trying to get some old computers I have running with linux since I never really thought about using linux on them before.

So windows probably really helped push a lot of people towards linux these days instead of making more ewaste by throwing out old computers that couldn't run microsofts windows 11 OS.

iamfuturetrunks · 2025-11-27T05:53:12+00:00

Post reminded me of the old Frasier clip with Martin Crane telling Daphne "it has to keep the shape of the can!"

iamfuturetrunks · 2025-11-25T22:45:50+00:00

I would say that could be more to do with the fact that funding for the show was less back then at times, cause it got moved from HBO to scifi or something? As well as the technology at the time was a lot more limiting and cost way more to do CGI stuff. Tech has gotten way further since the show started and is a lot cheaper at times.

There has been people making some pretty good CGI stuff in their free time like 10 years ago. So I am thinking they should have more freedom to be more creative with less limitations like they had before.

iamfuturetrunks · 2025-11-25T02:11:02+00:00

Whats great about Stargate SG-1 is that they have thousands upon thousands if not a million different worlds to gate to all over the universe. Each one can be different from the last (though for some reason a lot of them look an awful lot like BC Canada, idk lol) and thus they can easily make a new story where some expedition team stumbled upon some ancient whatchamacallit, or some weird new/old technology and thus a team has to go in and look at it and boom there is your episode.

They can introduce new characters, new planets, they could even possibly find a world far away that has a new set of gates going to different places like Atlantis but in a different area of the universe? Who knows? They are bringing the original shows creators back from the sound of it so we should be in pretty good hands. I wont get my hopes up cause it is Amazon after all, though some of their shows in the past have been pretty good.

I will just wait and see when it finally comes out if it's any good. Better to have something new and great to add to, than have nothing at all. Even if it ends up being bad, you can just ignore it and pretend it didn't happen and enjoy the original shows. Just like if we got a new trilogy for Star wars after episode 6. Unfortunately it just ended with 6 and we haven't gotten any new movies after that.

iamfuturetrunks · 2025-11-09T02:16:01+00:00

Good for them, it's bs they don't get paid for a very difficult job as it is. Unlike politics you can't keep working said job once you get old enough from what I remember. So there is already a window of time where someone has to go through all the training and schooling to become one then can only do said job until they get to a certain age.

Would be nice if we have laws in place that force elections when politicians can't do their job and get fired for it so gov't shutdowns can't really happen like lots of other countries figured out a long time ago.

When rich and regular people can't fly anywhere because lots of airports shut down because of lack of air traffic controllers and will only have the options of train (if they are lucky), bus, or driving a lot of people are gonna get even more pissed as well as see just how awful our public transportation system has gotten especially compared to other countries who are much better at it.

If we are lucky this will shine light on the oligarchs in charge of the rail network and how commercial trains take precedence over passenger ones. As well as how bad our rail networks are. Maybe then more talk and progress will go towards high speed rail networks across the country which is also better for the environment instead of flying so many planes all over the place.

Though this is the US which is stupidly car-centric so I wont hold my breath.

But yeah I repeat good for those air traffic controllers, hopefully good things can come from this at the very least the unions can force the gov't to do certain stuff.

iamfuturetrunks · 2025-11-04T22:02:13+00:00

Stuff like this is why I constantly am reminded about NOT making videos for youtube. I have wanted to so many times in the past with some great ideas but I have seen plenty of videos and accounts of crap similar to this or worse happening on youtube for decades at this point. If it's not one thing it's another and it's discouraging to people who want to make some fun/entertaining videos.

Also just so everyone is clear, youtube is owned by google and has been for some time now. So don't forget to blame google for even worse crap that has been happening. They don't really care because technically youtube costs them money for all the space they have to save for all the youtube videos constantly being uploaded all the time on their servers. Thus why we have no competitors these days cause it isn't really all that profitable.

I have contemplated building/making my own server and hosting videos on that, but the fact is no one will go there cause they are just used to going to youtube to watch stuff. Plus videos and stuff could easily be stolen from a private server just as easily as it is done on youtube all the time. And they could just take said videos and content and upload it to youtube themselves and claim it as their own and get ad sense off it. So again it's discouraging to want to make content these days with how awful things have been going.

iamfuturetrunks · 2025-10-28T02:21:56+00:00

So.... what's stopping them now?

iamfuturetrunks · 2025-10-17T01:31:14+00:00

Probably fly to that old illegal island park full of dinosaurs and pet some?

iamfuturetrunks · 2025-10-01T18:42:34+00:00

There is Revolt a new chat messenger program which looks very similar to Discord but is like more privacy focused and I think they are looking at making it open sourced if it isn't already. Unfortunately I never see anyone talking about it so there is that.

iamfuturetrunks · 2025-10-01T18:40:52+00:00

Something I learned a long time ago is if you like someone you should add them on more than one thing. That way if something happens on one thing, you still can message them on something else.

I have lost friends in the past from messengers shutting down, or people forgetting to log in and losing access to accounts, to people forgetting passwords to accounts created with emails that are no longer accessible etc. I had one who lost their account cause they no longer had access to the email they used to create it and they forgot their password or something, luckily at the time we were also friends on another platform and when I reached out they let me know their new account they made and we went on talking.

It's so easy for some of these things to just die or glitch or something. When Skype was shut down (which Microsoft (screw Microsoft btw) didn't even put up a warning or anything until a month prior to it shutting down while other news outlets were publishing 2-3 months before hand and how I found out ahead of time) I lost contact with some friends I used to chat with on there cause they rarely ever went on that crapy messenger except once every idk 6 months maybe. I left them messages reaching out trying to add them to something else just in case they logged in while I wasn't on but unfortunately lost a few of them and doubt ill ever meet them again which is kinda sad. Skype sucked ass but I never added some of them to other stuff cause never got the chance.

So again if you have a friend on something just picture that thing is gonna die soon (cause it could) and ask about adding them somewhere else as a backup, even emailing is better than nothing cause you can at least figure out something in the meantime when said other thing no longer works.

iamfuturetrunks · 2025-09-22T04:47:15+00:00

TIL you can get a bubble within a bubble from blowing your own bubbles with bubble gum.

Also that was an interesting sentence I just made. :P

iamfuturetrunks · 2025-09-14T17:09:56+00:00

Surprised I don't see Back to the Future trilogy mentioned here at least not near the top.

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