If it snows here, the snow will immediately melt usually. It's rare that it goes under 0 deg. C, even at night (the sea is close) ... roses are actually in bloom here still, which is rather unusual.

The fall these days is a rainy season, where everything is always wet. That's all, it drizzles for months on end at a temperature between 5 - 15 degrees, while it just gets darker. Really depressing.

As for the winter, it's no longer wet, hooray - but the only sign of real winter is that I get some ice plates in my boat's cockpit, but it won't freeze through, because the water is too warm...

Meh, climate change. When I was a kid, you could go outside with skis and sledges... even large horse sledges... and buckets and rain-water reservoirs would freeze all the way to the bottom. kids these days don't even know what real snow is.

Only it's dark, really fucking dark as soon as 3-4 PM and the sun doesn't rise more than a hand's width over the horizon. And there are sometimes storms.

In other words, rather boring weather, where you stay indoors as much as possible and get bored/drunk and watch TV whenever you can. I'm actually super-bored atm, and also a little ill, I wish I could just work. Somehow I don't have much energy. The fall wore me out already.

Some snow would actually be welcome... let's see if it happens this year...

Oh, if it only was summer again - these precious six weeks where the world turns into a desert, and you can't go outside either because you'll die of heat, and suddenly it's over like a feverish dream, and it rains, rains and rains.

Weather sucks.

It was better in the old days, too. 

You're what? 90 now? 

34. 

http://members.home.nl/gimli/pacmass.gif 

Merry Pacmas to you too! 

Is that a starling flock? They do that around christmas in holland? Do you watch birds? 

where's the box? 

http://haukerehfeld.de/photos/2008/12/29/PICT0047.jpg 

Have a good night everyone, may your hangovers be light and your mapping chi strong.

Or something... 

Looking back at the maps released this year, the overall quality is just amazing. I typed the "best map of 2008?" poll earlier today, so with a simple "ok" here it is:
http://www.quaddicted.com/?p=336 

Actually, I didn't drink that much last night, my hands are just cold.

I Hope 2009 is a good year for everyone. 

guys 

still ab it drunk :(, no headache yet 

I have no hangover, something must be broken . . . 

Your social life? 

 

being with people is unbearable unless you are intoxicated. 

I was playing Vampire : TM (which is great, now that its been patched up) when suddenly I got graphical corruption all over my screen and my pc froze.

After resetting the graphical corruption is all over the bios and windows loading screen, and I have boot into safe mode to even get windows to load without freezing the pc. I'm guessing my graphics card has bitten the dust?

Even as a type this now there are red and blue vertical lines down the screen, it doesn't look good at all! :( 

Take your card out, boot up, if the red/blue lines are gone then you can bet it's a goner. 

luckily a mate of mine has a old nvidia 7950 lying around after his recent upgrade so im back in the game, albeit with lowered fps :) 

And all that! :-)

Who is working on the top ten best Quake releases of 2008 list? 

Who is working on the top ten map releases of 2009? 

Is currently running over at moddb.com for those who care :)

Go vote! 

I have a confession to make:

"my mapping keeps stalling"

Its doing my head in because I'm soooooo close to getting the damn map into alpha, but I keep distracting myself with other stuff to play with.

I'm compiling the first version which is playable from start to finish right now, with a fast vis (because full vis takes 9 hours and I need both of my cores to play GTA4*)

Anyhoo, I could do with a tester, who is prepared to use DarkPlaces (recent DP build works really well with Quoth BTW) because it has massive packet overflow with a fast vis.

I know I have asked a couple of folks to test already, and would love them to still test, but I dont want the first tester to try it with Fitz (which WILL work BTW) because of the packet overflow.

So who has a fast machine and wants to test?

Pleeeeeease - Pretty please with bells on top?

(* GTA4 - First Impressions

GTA4 - PC - Its definately a beautiful game, but is definately a 30hz game, and its for sure a real pain in the arse too.

Installing it - fuck me - what a ball ache!
First you have to copy 2 DVD's worth on to your HDD (16Gb)

THEN it installs visual C++, Microsoft .NET framework

THEN it installs Games for Windows LIVE (which you have to sign up for and sign in to play the game if you wanna SAVE YOUR PROGRESS or play online)

THEN it installs Rockstar Games Social Club (which is a bit like Steam only not as good, and you have to install and sign into if you want to do some other stuff like see the global leaderboard of every fucker who has ever done anything to the game, like play it, or record a demo (!?)

THEN it tells you to install a BETA driver from NVidia which crashed my machine (loss of keyboard and mouse, system crash)(if anyone has the same problem then either roll back to WHCL 180.48 or install 181.00)

And the game locks all of the video settings to quite low unless you hack with a command line (which is weird because you have to put the command line in a txt file called "command line") and you hack it to find that you only loose a couple of fps with it on high (!?)

like I said - ball ache

Good game though, bit of a hog, but playable and fun, and the art and voice acting, animation, story etc all seems very nice to me, so I'm gonna go play it again)


Oh Yeah

Red Alert 2 (not 3, 2)

Played this though in just a couple of hours, great fun, havent playe it before, but its seems that having a machine about 10x the required spec cause the game to be realy easy, and there seemed to be a lot less missions than I remember in RA1

OK.....

(Please someone be my first G-Pig with a fast machine and DP.....:-) :D 

Do you agree with this Top 28 FPS list?

http://www.splegends.com/2009/01/28-best-fps-games.html