From the Apollo 13 Spacelog transcript. Good thing nobody had to get out and push. (via)
| Jack Swigert (CMP): | Okay, Joe. I’ll tell you, I’m just trying to figure out where we are here. |
| ….. | |
| Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM): | Roger, Jack. We see that. Of course, there’s a lot of cloudcover and you see it more clearly than we do, but it does look like the Earth, not the Moon. |
Filed under travel because, well, you can’t travel much further than the moon and back. Right?
This is a new podcast David and myself will be hosting where we chat with a guest about gaming. The guest will be someone we know from the Battlefield community so it’ll have a bias towards that but we’re going to cover other topics too. If you’re on our friends list watch out!
Check out David’s announcement post on the podcast blog for more details (or not, we’re keeping it suitably vague!)
Coyno joined a game against cheaters using the PBR glitch to drive a boat under the map on Operation Hastings. So, not only Hill 137 then. Hope it gets fixed soon.
WP Super Cache is a full page caching plugin for WordPress that makes your website run much faster!
Version 0.9.9.8 has been released and has a number of bug fixes and changes including:
The old uninstall process has been completely revamped. Now all you need to do is deactivate it on the plugins page. It will then remove wp-cache-config.php and advanced-cache.php. It will also remove the extra code it added to wp-config.php and the .htaccess file. On the off chance it can’t remove those files it will print a helpful message asking you to fix the problem. Unfortunately this class of plugin (full page caching plugins) are by design more complicated than regular plugins and are more invasive.
Got a problem with the plugin? Use the support forum please. Support queries posted here may be ignored or deleted.
This is 5 minutes out of a very long 49 minute Bad Company 2 game I played with Duck and DrunkinDunkin on one base on Oasis. I wasn’t in the helicopter, a player with over 6000 helicopter kills was piloting it and tore up our defenses. Thankfully the rest of his team weren’t so good. 🙂
I’d love to hear if you have any tips for Oasis. It’s one map I really have rarely done well in. I think it was Cards or gt who tweeted that he gets on to the AA gun before any blueberries get there to take down any incoming helicopters. Could have done with your help in this game!
PS. Check out the first episode of DON’T REVIVE ME BRO! podcast!
I was a big fan of Stunt Car Racer on the C64, and later played it on the Amiga too but I never knew about Stunt Car Racer TNT.
TNT is an extra tracks mod of the Amiga version released a few years ago by AmiGer. Here’s his announcement post:
Stunt Car Racer TNT (The New Tracks) will be released around christmas.
Modifications
Eight new tracks:
DIZZY DESCENT, WITTY WAY, CRAZY CAPER, AMAZING ADEPT, JERKILY JUMP, EVILLY EPISODE, TEASING TEMPER and RAT RACETrack parameters changed:
start positions, start height, damage sensitivity, boost countAI speed adjusted/changed for all tracks
Some visual adjustments
e.g. race colours, track names gfx dropped, title screen modified etc.AGA fixed
Cracked 🙂
Long time readers will know my dislike for Blur and I’ve hardly played NFS Hot Pursuit since I got it last month but Stunt Car Racer gripped me like no other racer since. It required perfectly timed boosts, cornering and was literally a rollercoaster of a ride.
I wonder did Joystiq jump the gun with this review of Little Big Planet 2? Probably not, and they give it 5 out of 5!
This is definitely going on my shopping list, and it’s been on my Amazon wishlist for months now.
This is the first part of a great presentation given by Michael Steil at 27C3 last year. The 6502 was the CPU used on many 8 bit computers of the eighties like the Commodore 64, Apple I and II and NES.
It’s an hour long presentation split into 6 parts, I’ve only watched the part above but it brings me back 20 years when I used to code in assembler using an Action Replay cartridge on my C64.
Check out this post for the rest of the presentation. I’ll be watching them later tonight.
Joost posted a great article on reducing http requests on WordPress sites recently and one comment caught my attention. Nabil mentioned cSprites. It’s a WordPress plugin that merges the images in your posts into one file and uses CSS to position the single merged file in place of the original images. Here’s a good post explaining how this technique works.
Unfortunately it hasn’t been updated in over a year, and the current version doesn’t work if you have PHP 5.3.2 (and probably 5.3.1) as it trips over this PHP bug. The fix is simple, get rid of call_user_func_array() and call the functions directly.
I had it installed here and it worked well enough but not perfectly. Here’s the post I made on the plugin’s support forum if anyone’s interested.
I don’t think the author will update the plugin again and in fact he’s looking for someone else to take over. Anyone?
The plugin has been running on my photoblog for the last hour ago and I haven’t noticed any problems yet. As a bonus, it also stops people right clicking and stealing saving my photos for their own use. I’ve since removed it as visitors were only seeing blank images. Oh well.
So, want to give a “fixed version” a go? Grab csprites-for-wordpress.zip and install it in the usual way. Support queries should be directed towards the plugin support forum. 😉
Oh yeah, there’s also the SpriteMe bookmarklet if you don’t want to go fiddling with WordPress plugins!
So you think your PC is so amazing that the graphics are near realistic? You ain’t seen nothing yet!
Looks like they haven’t improved the spawn system in COD 15 either. Oh well. (via)