Nexuiz 2.4.1 Soon to be Released

One of the developers of the freeware downloadable game Nexuiz has told me that v2.4.1 is in the works and will likely be released within this week or the next.

Nexuiz is a FREE online first-person shooter that offers Quake III action with expansive maps. See my article about it and Alien Arena 2008, another freeware game.

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Believe it or Not

Ironic


I now have a video card but still have not played even one complete game of War Rock. That will be remedied this Sunday. Newbies, prepare for hell. Pros, you will be presented with a walking bull's eye.

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Rickrolled.

Been had.

I just belatedly realized it but I have just been had. I got Rickrolled. And I'm not the only one. Here's AceDotCom's experience:

Seen it? Got it? Good. Now watch this video by Linguica:

The BFG owned hard.

And there's going to be a company-wide sportsfest this Saturday. I chatted with my supervisor, said: "Li, can I just jog? Cos I know ABSOLUTELY nothing about badminton, basketball and volleyball. If I join those events, my dreams of becoming a stand-up comic will instantaneously be granted."

Shazbot persuasion skill: 0

Image from ICanHasCheezBurger.com

Put me in a reef with water depths up to 10-20 feet with only a snorkel and I'd be happy. In sports, swimming is all I've ever been interested in. In fact, one of my wildest dreams is to get coiled by a giant moray eel, squeeze it to death, and get to brag about the inevitable scars that would be engraved on my forearms and legs. For several summers I've been deliberately reef snorkeling alone. No dice though. Fishermen ate them all, including those cute, tiny lobster-like things that scatter from their holes when you swim by. Tsk. As it is I am ---

Doomed. I am doomed. My only consolation is that Soren, the Erotic Gretchin is too.

Speaking of RTS's, here's my close brush with death in a matchup against Spirit_moon in Warcraft III: Frozen Throne.

Enjoy.

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How to Install an AGP Palit Nvidia "7300GT Super" DDR2 512Mb 128-bit Graphics Card

Ensuring that others won't suffer the same perplexity that I went through


It's either the manual got lost in shipping or Palit really didn't include an instruction manual on how to install their video card. A paltry thing for veteran PC builders, a Phyrexian Colossus for novice PC owners stuck with wires in the middle of the night. Checking Palit's website is futile; the 7300GT Super isn't listed there.

See my article entitled "Reunion." It contains an illustration on how to install the videocard. Thanks goes to DASQ of Tech PC.

I hope this proves useful.

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Reunion

These are the faces I wanted to see for a loooooong time:

Yeah baby! Darryl's back!

My 7300 GT 512Mb just arrived. I'm back in the game.

Definitely. Back in the game. Yes. Honey, bring out that P90.

And well shyeeeet, as if on cue, Amped brought out presents for me! Yep, that's right freeware fans! That's bloom alright. Some of the shaders in War Rock have already been implemented. I've been gone a few weeks and look what happened to the house.

Another bonus leapt out at my face as I unpacked the card in the dead of the night too: the thing didn't come with an installation manual! I thought the thing didn't require external power and there I was standing stupefied over what I found: mismatching connectors!

A newbie challenge fit for a PC newbie!

The card has a black rectangle in its upper right corner and a thingamajig that was bundled with it that looks similar to THIS. What mystified me was the mismatching pins; my PSU has 4-female pin molex connectors and the thingamajig has only two, THREE-male pin connectors. In contrast, my old card, a 6600GT, came with a 4-male pin connector on its right edge ---- it was a simple matter to connect one of the 4-female pin connectors from the PSU to it as per the instructions on its box.

It's frightening what a man crazed with two weeks of FPS withdrawal can do. I researched till dawn.

I found a YouTube video about a similar card with superior DDR3 VRAM and half of the memory, but to my wife's impish delight the said video didn't even go into detailing how to install the darn thing. Finally, I turned to the Tech PC forums and explained my predicament --- it was my first time handling a video card with this kind of connections and I was at a total loss on what to do.

A veteran member named DASQ finally told me that it's okay to plug the 3-male pin connector that came with my video card into the 4-female pin molex connector of the PSU, which I did.

Works.

Thanks goes out to the helpful people of Tech PC, especially Lone Wolf, Hux, and DASQ, who have helped me several times already.

And again, hugs to these people:

Man, integrated graphics don't show pictures of them. They ARE long-lost relatives.

Now what am I doing with this MP5? HONEEEEEY....

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