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He shouldn't have left his computer on and logged into Facebook. Big mistake. I'll have to say, she was very creative about her "revenge" though. :lol: http://shine.yahoo.com/love-sex/best-break-letters-ever-ask-8216-kelsi-8217-182300344.html Charge that ★■◆● with theft. If he was cheatin...

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If your car moves forward when you let off the brake, you have the idle set to high. Then every single automatic transmission automobile I have ever driven has had its idle set too high, because in every single automatic transmission automobile I have ever driven the way to creep forward at a very ...

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tunnelcat wrote:Don't you realize that once you're married, everything in the house belongs to both of you by default, so technically, it's not theft, it's just cleaning house.

Which is one of the best arguments I've heard for why no one should want to get married at this point.

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Sounds like I would hate that. Applying and reducing brake pressure is more or less how I control my car at very low speeds, such as fast food drive through's.

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Parking is something that is so ingrained into every drivers consciousness that having to read the ★■◆●ing manual means the engineers did something wrong. I'll read the manual to find out how to program the built in stereo system or customize the dual comfort zone heating and cooling systems or what...

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tunnelcat wrote:He shouldn't have left his computer on and logged into Facebook. Big mistake. I'll have to say, she was very creative about her "revenge" though.

http://shine.yahoo.com/love-sex/best-br ... 00344.html

Charge that ★■◆● with theft.

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Well this thread sure got derailed.

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Pay off my student loans
Buy a modest house with a garage
get some good furniture and AV gear, and of course a new computer and a bunch of video games
get myself a nice car
Stick the rest in a very low risk fund as the basis of my retirement package.

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Anyway, the reason I know I flew that good is whenever I would do one of these all-night sessions, I would demo it. Every so often I would watch part of them and in the later levels I would always wonder "who the hell is this guy and how the hell did he do that?". It sounds like you're a ...

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Secret level 3...ah i have fond memories of that one. As a kid I would, on occasion, stay up all night playing through Descent, start to finish. The goal of course being getting through the game without dying and without saving. Doing this is what allowed me to discover that I do my best work when s...

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But not to get it to smash into the central column of the room. :lol: And that's probably skillier than simply trichording. It also leaves you blind as you circle the room, puts you in the sight of a vulcan bot at near point-blank range meaning you can't dodge, and leaves you open to a random smart...

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I can perfectly and easily do that without trichording... I even did it on Insane. Besides, that room has so much space you just need to listen for the vulcan and change direction slightly when you hear it! This is what I mean when I say trichording is like an addiction. Even in the way you talk. Y...

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The way you do it is hang out in the door way so it cant close on you, and lob homers until you register 1000 points, indicating you killed a vulcan bot. Then just tricord like a bat out of hell and keep that speed while lobbing homers at the remaining vulcan bots. Then you can either keep circling ...

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The level 7 boss room should be doable without invulns. The trick is to lob homers to take out the vulcan bots nearest the entry tunnel, and then trichord in and take out the vulcan bots. The Red Hulks, believe it or not, are of little consequence because of all the maneuvering room you have. you ca...

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Well, I was poking my head out of the entry way and sniping some Super Hulks and Class 1 Drillers when the boss literally spawned right in front of the entry way exit, I couldn't even see his entire body he was that close. Least to say backing up into a locked door didn't help when three smart miss...

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How did you die in the entryway to the level 7 boss room?

Are you doing this blind or have you played descent before?

And what skill level are you playing on?

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I never liked the idea of death spew in singleplayer. I always felt like Descent should have used the Doom death model: you die, you lose all your stuff and start the level from scratch with a level 1 laser and some concs. Whenever I play through any of the Descent games, I never permit myself to ad...

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I have to say I agree with a lot of the assessment. The D2 textures are far too colorful and cartoonish to feel at all real, and I think that diminished D2's single player experience quite a bit compared to D1.

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Ah. Well sometimes all it takes is one lucky volley. But I wouldn't count on it happening too regularly.

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What class is that ship?

I have not played in years.

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Unless something has changed in Eve in the last couple of years, you won't be able to hit anything capable of moving that fast because of the signature radius of the ship compared to your guns.

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Luring platformers... Hell yeah, that's what I gotta try. The first area is frustrating as hell, though. It really does take immense patience. It's not as hard once you know the best places to stop and look around. Once you take out the lifters coming at you, stop and look around. If you can see th...

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Alter-Fox wrote:So, essentially, be sure you're not the mouse.

No actually, you want to be the mouse. Specifically you want to be Jerry, and the platform bots are all Tom. The platform bots chase you, and you lure them into a position where you have an advantage.

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A lawsuit I can agree with, after having ridden that very ride when I was a kid. It's charming at first, but then it starts to drill into your head and stick there like a malignant tumor. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! http://news.yahoo.com/man-wins-8k-disney-small-124355431.html I think being stuck in that rid...

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Level 20 gets substantially easier if you have the patience of a saint. The first section is really cake once you've figured out the right distance to be at in order to shoot the gophers with ease. The second section is all about making sure you are not in a position to be ambushed by those platform...

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I'll second Bioshock. It was without a doubt the best FPS game I have played since HL2 and Doom 3.

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No I think what's happening is he is blocking his ISP's youtube caching server. Most of the bigger ISPs have them. They store popular videos on them so that they dont get bandwidth sapped when half of their customer base goes online to watch the latest stupid viral video in 1080p. And its his ISP's ...

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This level's kicking my ass. BIG TIME. I'm talking about Insane, of course. It's a freaking death trap! Anyone has any idea how to minimize the number of deaths on this level? In the first section, after you take out the lifters who charge you right away, dont get caught up chasing down gophers. In...

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Ive seen stranger stuff in hentai.

Those Japanese, man... screwed in the head. But like, in an awesome way.

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It will be very hard to replicate any of the success of DTWIDD. And any D2 conventions should be ignored in favor of D1 only conventions. Well, the concept is that the mission pack will span both the Solar System, the six systems of D2 and Beta Ceti of Vertigo. There's gonna be no D2 weapons nor ac...

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It will be very hard to replicate any of the success of DTWIDD. And any D2 conventions should be ignored in favor of D1 only conventions.

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D2 is set up so that destroying one boss robot will destroy them all, so you can't really get a "have to kill both". Except (you guessed it) in XL. Or remove the boss flag from one of them. It alters its behavior, though. As for being unable to run Vertigo levels, well... I've already not...

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What would be awesome would be if you could have them both in the same room for the final boss fight, and you would have to destroy them both in order to get the last level to melt down. I experimented with that once, it didnt work at all from what I remember. But that would be an awesome fight. And...

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The D2 level 2 helix puzzle I actually got right off the bat thanks to some dumb luck and natural curiosity about how guided missiles work.

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Red hulks that just stick their launcher out around a corner and fire at you are lots of fun.

Honestly, Descent's AI is the best and most devious AI I have ever seen in any video game, ever.

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I've tried to switch up the start of the level a few times. Instead of going after the plasma, I've occasionally tried going after the vulcan cannon in the huge trap near the start. That...sometimes works. but obviously it leaves me with far fewer shields than I like. An additional strategy I've bee...

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Figured I'd post an update since this is taking forever. I'm finally getting to a point where I'm finishing level 9 every so often, but nowhere near a reasonable time. I have to develop a good route to go through the big open area and hunt down all the roaming bots there, and that is extremely probl...

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The only thing that irks me is when I read stuff online and it has those screwy extra u's that the british and other crown countries like to use. Crazy french spellings. Otherwise, words get used, new words get invented, and if they stay in usage long enough they get added to the dictionary. I'm wil...

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Just proof that God plays Descent.

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Oh well.

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