UT2k4 demo

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 9:17 pm

try it if your system can handle it. onslaught and assault are awesome.

Post by **Jonathan** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 10:08 pm

Yeah, I've been meaning to whip out the onslaught and assault. I need to put my computer back together.

Post by **Jonathan** » Tue Feb 24, 2004 5:11 pm

onslaught SI TEH AWESOME!

i still can't figure out where to go in assault. weh.

Zekmyr · Post by **Zekmyr** » Tue Feb 24, 2004 8:52 pm

Ugh, this demo is a lot of fun, but it gives me a headache everytime I play. Not sure if it's all the l33t d00ds, or just me stressing out cause everytime we build a damn node, the other team destroys another one. argh!

Zekmyr

Post by **Jonathan** » Tue Feb 24, 2004 10:03 pm

I'm experimenting with weps off. I find that the weapon bob usually gives me motion sickness, so i always turn that off if possible.

I need to change my default reticules. I can't hardly target with the flak no more.

Jason · Post by **Jason** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 1:17 am

I agree. It's the reason I got in an hour late to work today.

Post by **Jonathan** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 1:21 am

heh, me too.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 2:19 am

hehe its pretty fun, but not something i can see playing for more than a month. tho I did buy UT2k3, and played that for maybe 2 months

Post by **Jonathan** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 2:55 am

so, ffxi 4evA?

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 4:18 am

probably until WoW

VLSmooth · Post by **VLSmooth** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 5:30 pm

Randomness:
Woke up at ~8:00 am (no alarm, after ~8 hours of sleep), logged in to FFXI, made and ate pasta while xping, wrapped up leftovers for lunch, got in about 11 am and I'm feeling great

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 7:18 pm

You eat pasta for breakfast? And then eat the same pasta for lunch?

VLSmooth · Post by **VLSmooth** » Fri Feb 27, 2004 5:32 pm

Heh, usually I don't eat breakfast (big surprise). As for eating the same thing, I left it in the refrigerator and forgot about it. Sigh, guess it's going to get trashed.

Randomness: there was a short thread about the meaning behind "Ordo Rosae Crusis" here:
http://www.xenger.com/~orc/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=89

Just curious if the founder saw it and wanted to comment or not.

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Fri Feb 27, 2004 6:16 pm

Actually, if you read the da Vinci code, that book that's been sitting on top of the NYTimes best seller list for a long long time, you'd learn a decent amount about religious symbolism behind the name ORC

Zekmyr · Post by **Zekmyr** » Fri Feb 27, 2004 7:01 pm

I bought that book for my boss for Christmas, haven't read it myself though. Still trying to find time to finish the Cryptonomicon (which I highly recommend btw). My boss is really into DaVinci though, so I thought he'd like the book. Might have to pick it up myself one of these days.

Zekmyr

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Fri Feb 27, 2004 8:23 pm

I posted a response to that thread, I'll copy it here for people too lazy to click on that link:

Yeah I learned about it through Umberto Eco's book, "Foucault's Pendulum", which is a really complicated and difficult book to read, but interesting nonetheless. Incidentally that's where I got the name Diotallevi. I wouldn't really recommend it as light reading, but it's worth looking at if you're interested in stuff like history, the occult, occult groups throughout history, group psychology, the use of symbols in the occult, codes, and stuff like that. What makes it difficult to read is that the protagonists in the book often have long conversations that Eco presents verbatim, ranging from philosophical debates to explaining events in history. So after 10 or so pages it's easy to lose track of everything they've said and you're left wondering who said what when and what it means when they say this or that.

I'd recommend "The Name of the Rose" over "Foucault's Pendulum" for people interested in books by Eco. It's set in the period when the popes were in Avignon and deals a lot with theology and other topics that if I mentioned might give away the ending. It's still more difficult to read than mainstream authors like say Tom Clancy or Michael Crichton, but not to the degree that "Foucault's Pendulum" is.

Another book I'd recommend is "The Eight" by Katherine Neville, especially if you like Chess at all. It's much more mainstream and fast paced than Eco's work, but it also deals with occultist groups like the Freemasons and kind of reinterprets history by attributing all kinds of major historical events to occultist motives. Pretty interesting read.

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Fri Feb 27, 2004 8:42 pm

Zekmyr wrote:I bought that book for my boss for Christmas, haven't read it myself though. Still trying to find time to finish the Cryptonomicon (which I highly recommend btw). My boss is really into DaVinci though, so I thought he'd like the book. Might have to pick it up myself one of these days.

Zekmyr

I might be able to save you the trouble of picking it up. You or anyone else interested should PM me your email address.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Fri Feb 27, 2004 9:00 pm

\/\/@|23z \/\/@|2|\|i|\|g!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

VLSmooth · Post by **VLSmooth** » Fri Feb 27, 2004 10:00 pm

Doh. What happened to Dav's avatar? I wanted to add it to my company profile eventually ^^; (using this now (although not as large))

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Sun Feb 29, 2004 2:16 am

quantus wrote:
Zekmyr wrote:I bought that book for my boss for Christmas, haven't read it myself though. Still trying to find time to finish the Cryptonomicon (which I highly recommend btw). My boss is really into DaVinci though, so I thought he'd like the book. Might have to pick it up myself one of these days.

Zekmyr
I might be able to save you the trouble of picking it up. You or anyone else interested should PM me your email address.

Anyone else?