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Chief McHeath posted:Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear ruled. I was too stupid to ever create my own tactical plans, so I just went default. Multiplayer was crazy on Mplayer.com, but then again I was on dial up so the lag warping and bullet sprays at enemies in hoping to score a random headshot made it real hectic.
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That mission was lame. You had to hide behind the fuel truck each time you started the mission on the way to the plane.
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tom clancy games were too complicated i just wanted to shoot badass guns and kill terrorists
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On the subject of old computers did anyone else have Amigas at home or school? My primary school had some and they were fun. There were a couple of games I played on them a lot but I can't seem to find any information about them nowadays. The first was a Carmen Sandiego knockoff called Search for Sanchez (I think), but it was specific to New Zealand, so the entire game takes place there. The other one was an adventure game where you had to escape an island with an erupting volcano. Either the name of the island or the name of the game had 'Java' in it. If anyone can point me to some info or even a (legal) place to download them I'd be eternally grateful
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:Yo, they call me Ding, Ding Chavez Woah woah woah, jokes aside you can't be hating on my man, Mr. Ding Chavez!
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You guys should all read Bleeding Edge, you'll cum from all the early 00s computer nostalgia
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ColoradoCleric posted:Unreal tournament owns bones Is never played a game more than I played UT2004 Online. In fact, it's one of the few pc games I actually bought, so I could play on the normal servers.
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Didn't realize flak cannon grenades had smiley faces on them for the longest time. Also lots of weird but fun mutators.
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Hey man Ding was a badass. But ur right City Street Large was the best map.
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I used to play a lot of Tribes, AVP2 online and America's Army (especially v2.1). I liked the friendly fire system and autokicks in America's Army - I once was on a team where the whole squad was teamkilled at spawn by one idiot with an RPG. Good times. I think I was accused of cheating more often in that game than any other, pwning noobs all over the place. Cheating in online games is one reason I never really played Counterstrike - I have no patience with cheats. Why even play an online game if you need cheats in order to be competitive? Trolling people is only fun for so long, and it is much more satisfying to just beat the hell out of people by way of skill alone.
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i played ww2 online when it was in beta, the first time, in ~2000-2001 bought in a box from the same local computer store where i bought deus ex
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Who needs stinkin' TF2 teleporters? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRrjh8yp5yE I also remember how ATX cases went from power supplies on the top, then to the bottom, and now some are migrating to the top again as manufacturers invert motherboard mounts to get better air flow. On that note it looks like Enlight model 7237 cases finally stopped getting made. Those things were like the Corollas of ATX cases, just good enough to get the job done and they were everywhere.
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ColoradoCleric posted:conc jumping really ruined tfc Although spreading AIDS to the enemy team never stopped being fun. Especially since so few people played medic 
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ColoradoCleric posted:conc jumping really ruined tfc It was fun if you were good at it. It also drew a lot of accusations of cheating and occasionally got you banned from servers too.
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The_Franz posted:It was fun if you were good at it. It also drew a lot of accusations of cheating and occasionally got you banned from servers too. It also spawned conc maps which owned. I was never good at conc jumping, but was pro at rocket jumping. Nostalgia would be those really big full size computer game boxes. Remember when gaming software came in cool boxes that were a foot by a foot or so? I was so pissed when I went to Basic Training and came home and my mom had thrown out all my boxes. Then i went to the stores later on and all the software had been slowly changing over to the smaller boxes we have today. Also people who had WebTV heh.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epGeFHsupJM modplug tracker came with this mod, but I'm pretty sure I had a version of Sonique with it: 
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Winamp really kicks the llama's rear end! I remember spending so much time looking for the perfect skin. It was superior to all other music apps, including Sonique.
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Winamp is still better than any other player but unfortunately to enjoy the modern age you have to use whatever piss poor UI your streaming provider of choice craps out
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Now that it's available as a modern Mac binary, I just spent the better part of an hour going through the POVray demo scene files for the first time since I used it to render all the Mega Man characters in like 1992. 
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thathonkey posted:Winamp is still better than any other player but unfortunately to enjoy the modern age you have to use whatever piss poor UI your streaming provider of choice craps out Does that mean that keeping local digital copies of music is also an internet relic?
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Segmentation Fox posted:Does that mean that keeping local digital copies of music is also an internet relic? I hate to say it but it's getting there. I still use Winamp to manage my huge music collection, but even Google lets you upload up to 20,000 songs and access them for free from anywhere. I used to have a 64GB SD card in my old phone and was wary of my new phone (16GB with no expandable storage) but Google Music has made that a complete non-issue. It even lets you download songs onto your devices off their servers. e: as far as actual music management and display options though, I've tried a ton of programs across multiple OSes and nothing does what I want except Winamp:  The only things I don't like are the wasted space in the top middle and on the right between the tracks and the artwork, but I've been using this exact setup since Winamp switched to the Modern-style skins and added in the Media Library window, and even before that I had a plugin to do something similar. Snow Cone Capone has a new favorite as of 19:04 on Dec 30, 2015 |
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laserghost posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epGeFHsupJM I used kjofol until I got tired of the interface and switched to Winamp like everyone else 
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Segmentation Fox posted:Does that mean that keeping local digital copies of music is also an internet relic? no but it will be pretty soon
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I used to play a lot of Tribes, AVP2 online and America's Army (especially v2.1). I liked the friendly fire system and autokicks in America's Army - I once was on a team where the whole squad was teamkilled at spawn by one idiot with an RPG. Good times. I think I was accused of cheating more often in that game than any other, pwning noobs all over the place. to this day, Bridge in AA2.whatevs is the best shooter map in gaming history that poo poo was intense
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Wicker Man posted:I do kinda remember some hullabaloo about the WTC not showing up right in Deus Ex as some kind of honor thing, but that was just a sky rendering problem. iirc when it was about to go gold it was just barely over the max size of a single cd so they had to trim some stuff, one of the little corners they cut was by cutting out half the skyboxes and then mirroring them
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Data Graham posted:Now that it's available as a modern Mac binary, I just spent the better part of an hour going through the POVray demo scene files for the first time since I used it to render all the Mega Man characters in like 1992.   Amiga 4000 
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thathonkey posted:no but it will be pretty soon
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drunk asian neighbor posted:I hate to say it but it's getting there. I still use Winamp to manage my huge music collection, but even Google lets you upload up to 20,000 songs and access them for free from anywhere. I used to have a 64GB SD card in my old phone and was wary of my new phone (16GB with no expandable storage) but Google Music has made that a complete non-issue. It even lets you download songs onto your devices off their servers. iTunes redeemed the sinful music world and saved us all from monthly streaming subscription fees and self-destructing music collections... but then once we stopped caring about being able to burn CDs or make video soundtracks or play our music anywhere but on our phones, music itself stopped being a commodity we wanted to own. The streaming model, slow and steady, overtook it. I think the novelty of legal digital music was what kept the ownership model going for so long. Nowadays if you want to hear a song (and you're 13) you can usually just go find it on youtube. Nobody cares that you can buy and keep a song any more than they care about trading illicit MP3s in tyool 2016. Music is just out in the atmosphere now, too cheap to meter. There's no point in having a "collection". I think people are gravitating back toward the radio model as per Pandora/Spotify/etc, against all expectations (or certainly mine), because at least that way you stand a chance of hearing something new. Now iTunes is doing the cloud delivery thing too (with iTunes Match) and being slowly eaten from the inside out by Beats of all loving things. Streaming movies might have been the cognitive dissonance that tipped the balance. It never made sense to buy and download and store (and backup) gigantic digital video files, even if you were convinced that you wanted to own your music files and never have to phone home to maintain the ability to play them. Once we all settled on being comfortable with paying tenbux/month to stream whatever movies we wanted instead of having a shelf full of DVDs, it seemed silly to care about treating music any differently. I know I for one would rather live in an ideal future where I don't have to hoard any poo poo, digital or otherwise. I'd rather just let someone else keep it for me. Assuming ^^ it doesn't all disappear into vapor when the cloud dissolves. Data Graham has a new favorite as of 19:41 on Dec 30, 2015 |
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My LPs got ruined when the cloud turned into a thunderstorm and flooded the house
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I mean my car only has a CD player and I hate those FM transmitters so I still buy CDs, they just cost $1.99 at Goodwill instead of $14.99 at Tower Records. Last time I went was 50% off CDs, picked up Led Zeppelin 1-4, a 2-cd Yes compilation, and albums by Talib Kweli, Tribe Called Quest, Head Automatica, and Witch for like $15 total =)
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drunk asian neighbor posted:I mean my car only has a CD player and I hate those FM transmitters so I still buy CDs, they just cost $1.99 at Goodwill instead of $14.99 at Tower Records. Last time I went was 50% off CDs, picked up Led Zeppelin 1-4, a 2-cd Yes compilation, and albums by Talib Kweli, Tribe Called Quest, Head Automatica, and Witch for like $15 total =) just drive around with earbuds in like all the other cool kids
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I have a cassette adapter. I'm not kidding.
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Man I do not miss the days of music players with lovely UIs (or skins with lovely UIs). I was rocking the default Winamp 2 skin for as long as I remember. I skipped Winamp 3 because it was poo poo and set Winamp5 to the old 2 skin immediately after installing it. I did rock this one for a while though:  and I remember an ice-themed one that I liked too, but I'd always go back to the ol' metallic grey and green. Once I discovered foobar 2000 I never looked at another music player ever again.
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mrwuss posted:just drive around with earbuds in like all the other cool kids I see this all the time and it's baffling how loving dangerous it is Casimir Radon posted:I have a cassette adapter. I'm not kidding. I wish my car had a tape deck, those adapters are way better than FM transmitters.
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Casimir Radon posted:I have a cassette adapter. I'm not kidding. Those sound almost as good as aux cables
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