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  1. Ratty Sr.

    Unsurprisingly, Duke Nukem Forever reviews are negative

    No, just the one that has better AI than almost any other FPS ever made. Seriously, if you're arguing that behavior AI in games in general is poor, then I agree with you. Behavior AI sucks across the whole spectrum of its applications, and the field still has a long way to go before it can...
  2. Ratty Sr.

    Unsurprisingly, Duke Nukem Forever reviews are negative

    DNF is out? That's it, folks, game over. id Software, cancel Rage; Valve, cancel Half-Life 3; Croteam, cancel Serious Sam 3. The ultimate FPS has just been made, and no one can ever hope to touch Duke's toes, let alone- *clicks link* Oh, wait, it's shit. Carry on. I'm going to assume...
  3. Ratty Sr.

    Ratko Mladic arrested

    About damn time, I say. Milosevic and Karadzic are/were Machavellian sociopaths without a shred of morals, but Mladic is a beast. He actually reveled in the mass murder of thousands, rather than simply seeing it as a means to an end. As Atomkilla pointed out, Mladic was arrested by the same...
  4. Ratty Sr.

    Crimson Room; See if you can get out!

    Try six minutes. :smug: My first earnest attempt to get out of Croatia was a courteous e-mail sent to my current advisor asking something along the lines of "I'm looking to get out of Croatia. Interested in hiring someone with my skills?" Six minutes later, I got a reply saying "Sure, does March...
  5. Ratty Sr.

    Crimson Room; See if you can get out!

    Guess what, guys - I won the game! Didn't even need to cheat or anything.
  6. Ratty Sr.

    Self Organization - Evolving Computer Programs

    Euphoria is just a commercial implementation of physical animation techniques that have been around forever. Like most physical full-body animation techniques, it uses PD servos to generate torque in joints and synthesize motion, while a learning controller is employed to dynamically adjust...
  7. Ratty Sr.

    Have you seen this man?

    In poorer parts of Croatia it is near impossible to get any kind of job if you or someone in your family isn't in HDZ. In places like Virovitica even store clerks brandish HDZ membership cards. That's exactly what it is. HDZ is a camarilla that enriches itself by plundering national wealth...
  8. Ratty Sr.

    Have you seen this man?

    Latest update: Sanader has been arrested near Salzburg, Austria. Apparently, information that he had fled to New York via Ljubljana and London was incorrect. What really happened is that he drove through Slovenia and Austria all the way to Munich, Germany, where he tried to board a plane to New...
  9. Ratty Sr.

    Have you seen this man?

    Have you seen this man? Do you even know who this man is? I'm guessing you don't. This is none other than Dr. Ivo Sanader. For six years Ivo Sanader was the prime minister and undisputed autocrat of Croatia. Members of his party, HDZ, as well as the vast majority of Croatian...
  10. Ratty Sr.

    Partition resizing

    I suggest using Partition Magic. If that tool can't resize your partition, nothing can.
  11. Ratty Sr.

    Games that make you tense?

    Rapelay. EDIT: No, wait, that would be stiff.
  12. Ratty Sr.

    Cool/In-Depth Character Creation Sequences

    That can happen in Darklands as well. There is actually a pretty easy way to become wealthy at the very beginning of the game by creating a party full of geriatric alchemists and thus acquiring a fortune in expensive potions. Then simply retire the old farts and replace them with younger blood...
  13. Ratty Sr.

    Cool/In-Depth Character Creation Sequences

    Daggerfall's character creator is ridiculously detailed. Not only does it allow you to tinker with every detail of your character, but you can actually create your own character class from scratch. How awesome is that? The only "problem" is that if you're a perfectionist like me, it will take...
  14. Ratty Sr.

    Input Devices: The Thread

    That's nothing, I haven't been able to use my keyboard in years. All my posts on this forum have been written by copy/pasting from Character Map.
  15. Ratty Sr.

    Input Devices: The Thread

    Since someone mentioned mouse pads, I'd like to say a word or two on that subject as well. Mouse pads were a necessity for mechanical mice, obviously, but when I got my Explorer with its superb optical sensor, I found that I no longer really needed one. However, in recent years expensive gaming...
  16. Ratty Sr.

    Input Devices: The Thread

    I used to pay little heed to input devices and their fancy features, mostly settling for cheap keyboards and mice, as long as they were sufficiently large and spacious for comfortable use. I've used countless keyboards over the years, though my favorite has always been a no-name, beige keyboard...
  17. Ratty Sr.

    DNS problem

    That's great and all, except the issue has already been long resolved, so kindly stop bumping this thread, kthx. Or double-posting in it, for that matter. *glares at mor*
  18. Ratty Sr.

    DNS problem

    If I understood alec's post correctly, DHCP provides her with a valid IP initially, but something overrides that setting with a non-valid one. And we are trying to ascertain the nature of that mysterious Something.
  19. Ratty Sr.

    DNS problem

    Has your friend installed any software from her ISP? Any auto-configuration utilities or such? I've never heard of such software making furtive changes to network settings, though I guess it's possible if it's running as a background process or a scheduled task. Another possibility is that...
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