All contributions are anonymous until the doners specifically tell me they don't might it being public (1 person has specifically requested it to remain anon.)
The balance will be put in an interest bearing account to only be used for operational costs (monthly fees after the first year, domain registration, etc).
The contributions so far have been awesome. I can't think you guys enough. TASVideos really needed some folks to step up in order to stay alive, and we came through. TASVideos is now secure for 1 year minimum.
Nice to see things are progressing rapidly.
If it ever becomes a problem of finding donors, something like the Boardgamegeek -system could be put in place. They 'award' you a supporter badge for every year you donate something to the cause and afaik it has worked fairly well and at least in my opinion is relatively unintrusive.
"Kids! Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your home."
( Pratchett & Gaiman: Good Omens )
I like my AceKard 2. Doesn't (afaik) have anything fancy going on, but can play roms and I haven't had any compatibility issues with DevkitARM (libnds), which is what I also use it for.
"Kids! Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your home."
( Pratchett & Gaiman: Good Omens )
Technical quality of a movie is not something subjective, period.
If technical rating is not subjective, why is there a vote on it? Shouldn't we be able to take the first 'vote' and use that since there is no individual bias involved.
(I don't count it as a vote, if you only have one option.)
"Kids! Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your home."
( Pratchett & Gaiman: Good Omens )
I just (a few months back) bought myself a MacBook. Ultimately I'm pretty satisfied. If you want, you can customize a lot of it (while running OS X) and VMWare Fusion is really nifty on Intel based macs for running Windows.
I use it mainly for work. Coding works ok and I can say from experience that VS 2008 runs fine with Fusion and with Unity it integrates to OS X nicely. Battery capacity, performance and weight are all in nice balance. Also the "customizable" charger is a nice touch. OOo or Office for Mac work fine if you need to edit documents.
Problems arise when you wish to something unconventional. Usually the things you have to do are annoyingly complex and not easily approachable. Also you need to prepare for some "macism"s, some things are done certain way because they always have been.
Minor gripe is the absurd price of spare parts, at least the Apple-branded ones.
"Kids! Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your home."
( Pratchett & Gaiman: Good Omens )
Runs on VMWare Fusion with Unity. My mac doesn't have a real graphics card so it's horrendously slow but the DX9 emulation seems to be working as advertised.
"Kids! Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your home."
( Pratchett & Gaiman: Good Omens )
I think Vista is an improvement over XP in every regard
Except when your XP software and hardware don't work with it.
Only minor annoyance is the inability load unsigned drivers, but all my hardware has 64-bit Vista drivers by now and those that don't are best left to the dust anyway.
Why? Other OSes don't have a problem with older hardware. For example the newest MacOS X has better out-of-the-box hardware support than ever, not to talk about Linux.
"If Windows doesn't support it, you don't need it" is typical Windows-fanatic talk, and simply false.
If something is overhyped, it's this "Vista sucks" bandwagon. It's not the supergreat improvement over XP it was supposed to be, but it's still superior.
Except for the humongously increased hardware requirements and decreased hardware and software support. (And this is not my invention. Steve Ballmer himself has admitted so much.)
Windows is probably the only OS out there for which each new version is actually slower than previous versions. For example each new version of MacOS X has been faster than the previous (with the same hardware), and eg. Linux is constantly being developed to be faster and more efficient.
Nice way to try and label me as a windows fanatic. As said, I don't really care about what platform I run my stuff on as long as it works fine. And because I want to actually run games on my rig, I have no other viable option that Windows.
Also, I have zero XP software that fail to work with my Vista. The driver thing actually comes from having a 64-bit Vista, not just having Vista. Afaik 32-bit still supports loading unsigned drivers just fine.
The increased requirements aren't really a problem for any modern computer (okay, some packages ship with too little RAM to run Vista properly but that's what you get for going cheapo way). If you don't have the power to run Vista, I'm not suggesting running it, of course. Then you can turn to Linux or XP.
I'm not saying it's the best operating system ever, I'm just saying that some of the weaknesses have been totally blown out of proportion.
"Kids! Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your home."
( Pratchett & Gaiman: Good Omens )
I am wondering though... why didn't you skip level 50?
Does this count as completion? Basically, It puts you to the same state that you would be in if you'd just fired up the game.
But I guess this is all a bit arbitrary, since the game doesn't define the goal too straightforwardly. Is it to beat level 50 (which this submission does) or to get through every level available (which Baxter's idea also confers to)?
Didn't watch it yet, so no vote from me.
"Kids! Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your home."
( Pratchett & Gaiman: Good Omens )
I think Vista is an improvement over XP in every regard, after you disable the stupid UAC. Only minor annoyance is the inability load unsigned drivers, but all my hardware has 64-bit Vista drivers by now and those that don't are best left to the dust anyway.
Also, the only BSODs I've ever had on this system are all caused my dear friend Forceware doing something wrong.
If something is overhyped, it's this "Vista sucks" bandwagon. It's not the supergreat improvement over XP it was supposed to be, but it's still superior.
"Kids! Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your home."
( Pratchett & Gaiman: Good Omens )
As of now, I am removing the Google advertisements from the site because they produce a ridiculously low amount of revenue (takes more than two weeks to get a money worth a lunch) despite the high number of visitors, compared to the annoyance of having advertisements on the site in the first place.
I think this is because fair number of visitors on this site are fairly computer literate and most likely use some form of ad blocking.
(As do I, but I usually let Google Ads slip past)
"Kids! Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your home."
( Pratchett & Gaiman: Good Omens )
Also, what does that continent have against ice? We take it as a given in the states that if you order a coke, it comes cold and on ice. Not so lucky overseas.
I can't speak for rest of the continent, but at least in Finland when you buy a coke you're asked if you wish to have ice or not.
"Kids! Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your home."
( Pratchett & Gaiman: Good Omens )
Anything published by Simon Singh. The man writes about science with astounding clarity and sense of humor. Anecdotes about the subject matter are also intertwined in his texts. The Code Book and Big Bang are among favorites of mine, but I haven't (yet) read his newest book about alternative medicine.
"Kids! Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your home."
( Pratchett & Gaiman: Good Omens )
Yes. This was one of the more aggravating games of my NES-filled youth and I'm glad to see it receiving punishment like this.
Zanzibar Land (or whateverplace it is in this game) needs seriously some better motivated guards. "An explosion you say? I'm sure it was nothing."
"Kids! Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your home."
( Pratchett & Gaiman: Good Omens )
I'm contemplating on playing through FF1 and 2 again, but according to news sites they're getting *another* revamp for PSP? I thought there was already a PSP version out.
I guess I better wait for that release...
"Kids! Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your home."
( Pratchett & Gaiman: Good Omens )
That downgrading mumbojumbo is rather old though. With Pandora's Battery you can just install a new custom firmware, based on the latest official firmware. If you have a backup of the keys + pandora's battery then bricking the PSP with homebrew is afaik pretty much impossible as well.
Anyway, I'm playing Chrono Trigger without a problem on newest SNES9xTYL.
"Kids! Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your home."
( Pratchett & Gaiman: Good Omens )
You should have told me, I was present sunday as well. ;)
In my defense, I was boardgaming the whole day in the basement, so I really didn't get to see anything else than the related lectures held in the same space.
On a sidenote, the crowd leaving on sunday did certainly break the railway station ticket sales system and buying tickets on the Pendolino back to Helsinki got me some nasty remarks from the official.
"Kids! Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your home."
( Pratchett & Gaiman: Good Omens )
By "board games," do we include Trivial Pursuit? Because I love that game.
Well, obviously it fits under board games. It's really not my kind of game though, mainly due to huge amount of randomness. I'm more fond of games where I get to do the decisions. Same reasoning why I don't like to play Monopoly.
Actually, there's some better trivia games available as well. Wits and Wagers is a trivia game with more of a gamer's game feel to it. And I think that's now on XBLA as well.
"Kids! Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your home."
( Pratchett & Gaiman: Good Omens )
Since TASVideos obviously has a rather large number of gamers around, I wonder how many actually play board games as well?
I've been boardgaming more or less actively for 10 years or so now, got into it when Settlers of Catan hit Finland. After that it was Carcassonne, but I've never really got into Ticket to Ride. Nowadays I do play some in Xbox Live though, but I still don't really like it.
I do play a small amout of wargames every now and then. Currently Twilight Struggle has been a favorite and I'm looking towards Red Star Rising at the moment.
Current favorites include Age of Steam, Brass, Agricola, Vegas Showdown and Mü. Other train games are nice as well (like 18XX, Wabash Cannonball). These change often though, but I guess my BGG collection can be used to characterize me, even though it's a bit out of date.
"Kids! Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your home."
( Pratchett & Gaiman: Good Omens )
I also personally wanted to see this TAS, and others might too. Sorry if it offends anyone.
I'll definitely watch this when I get home and get this new SegaCD thing running.
At least by doing it this way it's now indexed on the site and can be found via the main page search.
"Kids! Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your home."
( Pratchett & Gaiman: Good Omens )
Unfortunately, I think +c strips out underline and bold, which are far more useful...
+c (color filter): This cmode activates the colour filter for the channel. This filters out bold, underline, reverse video, beeps, mIRC colour codes, and ANSI escapes. Note that escape sequences will usually leave cruft sent to the channel, just without the escape characters themselves.
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So yes, underlines and bold text should be filtered as well.
"Kids! Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your home."
( Pratchett & Gaiman: Good Omens )
It's not missing, it's by choice. (+c in channel mode is the color filter)
Then again, I can't see what you could convey with colors that isn't doable with plain old text. Usually colors just end up being annoying (like the overly small forum text here).
"Kids! Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your home."
( Pratchett & Gaiman: Good Omens )
I've always had a secret liking of the two Matrix sequels
Apart from the last one :P
Whaaat? Reloaded was a dull effect-filled action flick with a lot of "deep" babble fitted in. Unlike the first one, which actually had some rather nice novel ideas and a very good execution of them (yes yes, I've seen Dark City as well).
Revolutions and Reloaded are passable entertainment, but clearly inferior to the first one.
"Kids! Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your home."
( Pratchett & Gaiman: Good Omens )
