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Following the announcement that NuclearDistrict will be closing the books, other things need to close as well. The teamspeak server is now offline, due to the large resources it uses for negligible activity. Discord works very well (with a link to join it provided by Alex) and has some fun plugins installed. If people wish to setup their own teamspeak server(s), they are more than welcome to do so. 

As ever; have fun, play hard.

We'll see you on the other side...

@esponshadow1 when running tron, it's best to run in safe mode (not necessarily with networking) and to let it run all the way through. An average run takes several hours to complete, due to how thoroughly tron purges potential viruses, malware, adware, PUPs, telemetry data and junk files from your system.

I'd be interested to know which flags you used to run tron (if any) and whether you ran it under safe mode or not. I can't remember if the auto switching to safe mode was implemented in version 9 or not...

I somewhat agree with Alex on this one. If it were WWII themed I might be more interested to see how it pans out, but even then, I'm still not sure what they could do to keep me interested. BF3 and BF4 are still some of my favourites, because you can run around with a shotgun, getting insta-kills (like a shotgun should anyways) at pretty much any range (which is just silly, but still fun) and then just hop into an MBT or a Heli and have fun with those. EA have somewhat lost focus on what they are good at, which is modern shooters with realistic elements. Heck, they even managed to make Mirrors Edge stupid, and that was already pretty much perfect. Goddamn swooshy line things to show the path and confangled upgrade systems to get basic moves you should just HAVE at the start of the frigging game...

14 hours ago, AwakenedRage said:

Click it so you can see it easily.

Personally, I'm struggling with the taskbars both top and bottom.

Housekeeping!

Well, here's the thing right. I was thinking I'd like to get a car like THIS (The raw link is about a mile long FYI) which would be notably faster than my current car, mainly due to the removal of 2 doors, the 7 speed gearbox, and the addition of a turbocharger to the engine. It would have the same power output as my Dad's car, except it'd weigh a few hundred KGs less. Also, given my current one handles like a dream, this one would certainly play nice and be fun to drive fast. Alas, I don't have £20K to spend, and the financing would kill me, even if I had the income to support it. Perhaps a toy for when I'm finished my degree and get a decent job...

It's not the idea behind the car. It's how the Prius is made. Shipping stuff all around the world, and then building it. They could have at least built a factory in Canada, and just shipped materials in from China. Or even build the factory in China and ship materials there. But shipping it around the world 3 damn times is insane. 

On 05/04/2016 at 4:16 PM, Atomicbeast101 said:

What about a lovely Toyota Prius?

I would spend 10 minutes berating you about just how WRONG a Prius is on so many levels. But you did a face...

On 01/03/2016 at 3:20 AM, 16dbaxter said:

No it's windows 7 with some mods.

 

On 29/02/2016 at 11:05 PM, Atomicbeast101 said:

 

Is that Windows Vista OS? The taskbar looks so different.

Both wrong I'm afraid. It's Windows 8 using startisback and small taskbar icons. 

MSI gaming laptops are pretty darn good. A mate got one after I recommended the specs. Decent performance, great screen and keyboard. Battery isn't fantastic, but it's good enough. Very well built though. 

On 20/02/2016 at 11:51 PM, Alex said:

 

Rainmeter can be quite glorious indeed, any specific plans for it?

 

Just make a sort of battlestation style system, with system monitoring and shortcuts. Save me from this (just a small sample of my wallpaper rotation):

Torrent alk the things?

But seriously, render host might be best for certain projects that're in the pipeline. Cloud storage is only good if you've got appropriate control over access etc. 

You could always turn it into a pre boot encrypted VM host...

HI, how are you? Not too bad? Good stuff, good stuff. Yes, I'm still here. No, you don't have to sound so disappointed about it.

Anyways..

Me and Alex (that super sexy admin of ours) were talking about beautiful video games that are also great to play. My owning a good number of them, but not playing them yet, is an entirely different topic of conversation. We decided that "hey, we should share this list. Might be useful for some people expanding their Steam library, or just looking for something new to play." So here's a random list of games me and/or Alex have played (many of you have probably played them as well).

• A story about my uncle (awesome game but short)
• Assassin's Creed / 2 / Brotherhood
• Bioshock
• Bioshock Infinite
• Crysis
• Deus Ex Human Revolution
• Dishonored
• Far Cry
• Firewatch (Although it's quite short for the price)
• GRIP (my personal favourite racer at the moment)
• Half Life
• Limbo
• Metro 2033
• Mirror's Edge
• Portal
• Portal Stories: Mel: http://store.steampowered.com/app/317400 (This one's a mod)
• Saints Row
• Skyrim
• Sleeping Dogs
• Thief
• Witcher

3DMark is a really nice game too, you hit run and eventually it'll give you some numbers that apparently have to do with your system performance or something...

Thoughts? Suggestions? Gentle criticisms that won't make us cry? Additions to the list that you feel are drop-dead gorgeous games which also play really well? Let us know.

All right, time for me to crawl back into that twilight zone I'm so good at lurking in. ~Falk

On 16/02/2016 at 4:39 PM, Atomicbeast101 said:

My lovely deskop:

 

Literally screamed "DEAR GOD WHY?!?!" then got on with my life.

6 hours ago, Alex said:

 

Rite

 

I eventually aim for something like this, so I can then get the Rainmeter going...

8 hours ago, 16dbaxter said:

It came with really bad all season tires but I put some really good snow tires on the front tires and it runs like a dream in the snow now. It has decent gas mileage I fill up every 1 week and half. It's almost a base model which is ok. Has no traction control or ABS but which means I need to be careful (which I am)

That feeling when 1.5 weeks per fill up is considered good. I could get 3 weeks on my car doing about 10 hours of driving (both city and motorway). If I'm driving my car every day (which sometimes I am) then I can easily get 2 maybe 2.5 weeks. 

If I drive sensibly, on the other hand, I could probably stretch to 4 weeks.

5 hours ago, Alex said:

I'm playing a lot of Elite: Dangerous as of late, picked up Miscreated with some lads a couple of days ago too. Used to play plentiful of CS:GO but I'm currently having a break from it right now 

 

Do like a nice relaxing flight around in Elite: Dangerous, just exploring the star- OH FOR F***S SAKE ANOTHER GODDAM PIRATE!

But yeah, I enjoy GRIP (in case you hadn't noticed) and CoD MW2 (because its so easy to troll people that still play it. You gotta have fun somehow...) and Minecraft. Space Engineers, Prop Hunt, various other games as well.

18 minutes ago, Blizz said:

uhh if you wont stab me true

 

The person below has tried to start a minecraft server and failed 

FALSE

I ran the startup script and it launched just fine thanks. 

The person below me didn't know that I really REALLY want a pet cat that understands me. 

If something is both right and wrong at the same time, does that make it any less awkward when the Police ask you about it?

Update on my home connection. The speed prescribed by my ISP hasn't changed, but my networking gear has. Namely, I know run a virtual switch on my pc, which feeds into a physical 8-port switch on my desk. From there, we go to a powerline adaptor, which goes through the electrical wiring of the house to the lovely Netgear R7500 series Nighthawk X4 router we have. From there, we skip along a nice 10m of ethernet (cat5e) to the modem (newly replaced) which then links up to the cable network that is the ISP. Funnily enough, it's the router that allows my gear to utilise the full bandwidth of the internet connection, not the switches.

Just now, Alex said:

 

Just sitting there for the ladies that might scan your desk eh?

uhhh, sure. Because nothing gets a night going more than out of date vitamin tablets...

I feel like there should be a rule to not be allowed to vote for oneself, or even better, no staff listed in the poll are allowed to vote. That way, the opinions of the community are truly reflected.

Well, I could say that I'm a 5/7 for legalisation, except that I feel legalising it would result in harder drugs becoming more prolific, and causing even more damage. So I'm actually a 5/7 against. 

And I'm not American either, so it's not my constitutional right to want to fill my body with narcotics, no matter how opinionated and xenophobic a guy named Brendan may be on the matter. And before you say anything, discussing legality is not illegal. 

You mean aside from this guy who likes Python and LUA (through Corona SDK)?

As for the IP addresses for services, the Teamspeak is on ts3.nucleardistrict.net with the Minecraft currently on mc.nucleardistrict.net . There's also the TF2 server (still being finalised IIRC) which will be on tf2.nucleardistrict.net . 

Other than that, no other services are available at this time, but there's certainly some ideas about what to try!

14 minutes ago, JohnnyDroid said:

Are those some supplements on the right? You goin to gym there m8?

Honestly, that pot has been there for about 1.5 years, from when I had a vitamin deficiency. IIRC they're about 1 year out of date...