Planet Descent
Community => Mess Hall => Topic started by: Ronin RedFox on November 24, 2009, 11:56:33 AM
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This is mine.
Finally its new. :D
And I aquired/deleted games! :)
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What is that as wall paper? Some kind of torture chamber, no doubt! ;) Hey, I tried to play Nexiuz, but it did not play well for me. How does it work for you?
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Its a CTF map for Flight Back, so i guess you could call it a torture chamber! :P
Nexuiz works great for me.
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Here's mine for November-
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My current backgound on my laptop
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Here's mine.
(http://home.earthlink.net/~pauljunk/pdstory/medesktopLT4.jpg)
What you see is actually a small fraction of the whole pic, slightly smaller than the original. The original is HUGE! 8)
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A couple backgrounds I've been rotating at work (yeah, two screens wide 8) )
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I'll share both my desktop and notebook/laptop images, desktop first.
Click to view full size (2560x1528):
(http://zantor64.fs2downloads.com/images/desktops/Desktop%2011-13-2009.JPG) (http://zantor64.fs2downloads.com/images/desktops/Desktop%2011-13-2009.JPG)
Click to view full size (1920x1200):
(http://zantor64.fs2downloads.com/images/desktops/M60%20Desktop%2011-25-2009.png) (http://zantor64.fs2downloads.com/images/desktops/M60%20Desktop%2011-25-2009.png)
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My desktop PC desktop hasn't changed at all, but here's my Windows 7 destkop, from my ACER Tablet PC
(http://basementnet.dyndns.org/ryan/tabletdesktopthumb.png) (http://basementnet.dyndns.org/ryan/tabletdesktop.png)
I highly tricked out this install of Windows 7, managing to disable the feature where dragging a window to the top of the screen maximizes it, dragging it to an edge of the screen makes it fill up that edge, and the feature where dragging a maximized window unmaximizes it. The colors were all manually set via the registry (because the color editing dialog is crap and doesn't get the colors I want), complete with the two-pixel wide highlight feature (I think it looks cool). I'm probably going to use a shell replacement at some point as I absolutly hate 7's explorer
[Edited by TechPro to correct link to image]
[Further edit to reintroduce link to fullscreen images]
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You're the first person I know to get Windows 7 and hate things about it.
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It's techinically sound but the UI is horrible
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Here's mine.
(Pic)
/me calls up Steve Nelson ;)
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Yeah, good 'ol Steve (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_dSZkz_GB4)... lets all give him a call. ;)
(http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/v229/727/90/n577165408_1391.jpg)
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(http://i46.tinypic.com/1zdpw7l.jpg)
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Took me a moment to figure out what you guys were going on about. :P It's fixed now. :)
And while I'm at it, I had forgotten the desktop from my bedroom computer...
(http://home.earthlink.net/~pauljunk/pdstory/medesktop7.jpg)
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So... great. Now we are all going to call Dad's computer... ;)
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Please ... don't. :o
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I'm floored, Insanity. I have Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit on my laptop and I have nothing but praise for the new GUI. The reworked taskbar is as functional as it is slick. The new Aero snap feature to maximize the window or half-screen-size the window when it's dragged to the top or to the sides respectively is an absolute joy when you have to compare two windows regularly (such as at school - powerpoint on one window, my notes on the other). Aero peek and shake are also very easy to use and rather useful. I love it.
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My background for my Linux (Ubuntu 9.10) system ...
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The second one of Hellbender is just a simple canyon that you start out in in one of the levels. It just has a lot of meaning to me.
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My desktop of December-
(http://s2.postimage.org/ovk7S.jpg) (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=Tsovk7S)
(basically the Maddog opening fire on the Locust IIC mech, I found it somewhere on sarna.net (the Battletech Wiki)
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Ohhhhh man I love MechWarrior. :)
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Ohhhhh man I love MechWarrior. :)
Ditto. I'm waiting for the free release of MechWarrior 4. ;D
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Is that like Lore?
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If by Lore you mean this clone of BattleTech and Mechwarrior then yes.
http://www.torquepowered.com/community/blogs/view/16545
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Yip! My kids like that game.
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Wait, there's going to be a free release of Mechwarrior 4?
It's amazing what you might find when you've been out working your fingers to the bone on finals for a couple of weeks and decide to hit up your favorite forum. ;D
Oh, and here's my desktop for the time being on my laptop. Fresh install of Windows 7 64-bit Home Premium, I might add. (Thanks, ASUS!)
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Wait, there's going to be a free release of Mechwarrior 4?
Yes sir, it's gonna be free on mektek.net!
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Dude! I'm gonna have to get me some of that! ;)
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I'm sure my kids would like that game so I took a look. I'm still not clear whether this is a mod and you still will need to buy the game, or a download to play online. I didn't see any hardware requirements either.
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MechWarrior is a full game and the full game will be released for free. It's not a mod.
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Requirements should be similar to those for Descent 3. I'm guessing anything PIII 500MHz or higher would run it just fine. So basically anything this decade should work for you. :)
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Cool! My kids will love that. the kid's machine is not too bad with D3, a little stuttery under heavy load due to onboard video.
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Here's my Windows 7 screencapture-
(http://s1.postimage.org/16W7fi.jpg) (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=gx16W7fi)
(I found this wallpaper from tfw2005.com (http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/video-games-17/tfw2005-war-for-cybertron-interview-with-aaron-archer-and-matt-tieger-168910/). Note that the style is a mix of Transformers Generation 1 and War Within)
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MechWarrior is a full game and the full game will be released for free. It's not a mod.
It's been released now. I am downloading it. Or I was, til the internet slowed to a crawl 'cause my wife is watching movie! ::)
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I’m unable to find any downloads for Mechwarrior 4 but I did see that Mechwarrior Living Legends Beta was just released.
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Oh, thanks for reminding me to restart that download! I'll find the link and post it... I had to go looking for one that worked. It's a torrent.
MW Living Legends: http://www.thelivinglegends.net/downloads/Mechwarrior%20Living%20Legends.torrent (http://www.thelivinglegends.net/downloads/Mechwarrior%20Living%20Legends.torrent)
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Gee, I think this thread has been derailed. /me pushes the thread back on track.
I could use a little help getting the text right for this. I think I still have the PSD floating around; it's a game screen shot with text on a layer added to it.
(http://zantor64.fs2downloads.com/images/desktops/Ratchet%20in%20Space%202%20let%20nothing%20stop%20you.jpg)
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What do you want to do with the text?
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Make it stand out properly and look right. I was told not to do text straight on a textured background, but to do something to make it stand out. I use Photoshop 7.
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(http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/3060/image7c.jpg)
Try outlining the text with a contrasting border, dark gray or off white.
Shadow effects can work as well.
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Indeed. I'm guessing that shadow effects may look the best.
... and don't use PyroJockey's spelling. ;)
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... and don't use PyroJockey's spelling. ;)
D'OH!
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Look at the logo for the Blue Christmas theme, I did that in the Gimp. Some texture for "Planet Descent", then Xach-Effect to give the chiseled look. Then shadow.
Edit: here you go:
(http://prepare4descent.net/images/Ratchet.jpg)
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Oh, thanks for reminding me to restart that download! I'll find the link and post it... I had to go looking for one that worked. It's a torrent.
MW Living Legends: [url]http://www.thelivinglegends.net/downloads/Mechwarrior%20Living%20Legends.torrent[/url] ([url]http://www.thelivinglegends.net/downloads/Mechwarrior%20Living%20Legends.torrent[/url])
This isn't a full game. It requires Crysis.exe to run. It's a mod for Crysis.
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/me thinks about Zantor's proposed desktop pic for a moment...
Personally, I think it'd look even better without the text, but that's just me. :)
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Sorry for posting off-topic, but I'm curious where to find this free copy of Mechwarrior 4. Like Pyro, all I could find is the Crysis mod.
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Sorry for posting off-topic, but I'm curious where to find this free copy of Mechwarrior 4. Like Pyro, all I could find is the Crysis mod.
As far as I can tell it is yet to be released. It is supposed to be provided by MekTek.net (http://www.mektek.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=138822) and by distributed by BattleTech.com (http://battletech.catalystgamelabs.com/2009/07/09/mechwarrior-to-be-distributed-free-on-battletech-com/)
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Enough derailing the thread! This is not where you guys should talk about Mechwarrior!
I think I'll do a drop shadow; I'll tweak it to get it to look right. Thank you for your input.
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Hey... who's the one off-topic? ;) Anyway... what's wrong with the drop shadow I gave it?
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Rerail? :P
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Actually, that's a derail, someone changed the sign...
(http://www.prepare4descent.net/p4dfiles/derail-flag.jpg)
Here is a re-rail:
(http://www.prepare4descent.net/p4dfiles/reRail.jpg)
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Interesting. I gotcha now.
BTW: I was the one to change the sign for humor's sake. I take it my attempt failed. ;)
I think we need to start a January Desktop now that it's halfway through January.
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lol... The first is placed between some rolling stock on a siding and the mainline. If for some reason the cars start rolling they will become derailed before rolling out onto the mainline.
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I believe it's called thread hijacking
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I wouldn't say that, the conversation has simply wandered off track. A thread-jacking would be when, for example, a topic is started to ask advice on a crashed harddrive and someone is helping them, all of a sudden someone else comes in and starts relating there problem with a harddrive. It may be a sound like the same problem but they are taking away from the help the OP would be getting, and possibly confusing the people who are trying to help.
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I stand corrected
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Well, it's a fine line... posting a pic and asking for help with it is a bit off topic, might be considered thread jacking... but if he is planning to use it for a wallpaper maybe it's on topic. And as they say, 'no harm, no foul'.
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And besides: thread derailment is a tradition at PD. ;D
But seriously: don't hesitate to realign the thread if it's going way off track. I don't think anyone here had the intention of being unhelpful or ignorant, Zantor. My apologies. :)