The Official Rant Thread

[Ogrish]

T-mobile works great for me, but i did find an area in the canyons that my phone didnt get any bars and my friends had 3 bars using verision. (last year)

Exponant? uhm... what?

[Dragonfire]

65 on a history exam.

lol, no offense dorrman, but thats prolly what i would get, too. Shows how much i care about the past.


You want better service or better phones?

I choose service. ^_^

[Gary]

It is useful to know the past so you don't repeat mistakes.

And I use AT&T, it seems to work well and I might get an iPhone(only apple product I will ever consider).

Oh, speaking of Apple, I hate how people think that they came up with the GUI, it is complete bullshit and I hate their ads on TV, just more bullshit.

[Zieon Eslador]

Cell phone service REALLY depends on the state you live in. For the entire year I've had my phone (Verizon) I have always had service, except underground... I go hiking a lot as well, and most of the places are many miles from the nearest road. Go Virginia?

[xxpenguinxx]

There's a dead spot right on top of my computer...

[Click16]

There's a dead spot right on top of my computer...

wtf?

[Zieon Eslador]

There's a dead spot right on top of my computer...

Verizon?

[xxpenguinxx]

Virgin Mobile

[Aumaan Anubis]

I love the fact that I'll be in college in no time at all.

Actually, that's a lie. Sorta' beginning to piss me off.

[Grimdoomer]

Was taking a shower, droped the soap and nailed me right in the dick. Was like a slap in the face but more in the dick than the face.

[JacksonCougar]

I lol'd.

[Grimdoomer]

Some faggot took my lib name. http://code.google.com/p/openhalo/

Can you believe this shit? Someone should kick him in the dick man.

[Dragonfire]

lol @ Grim

[xxpenguinxx]

Was taking a shower, droped the soap and nailed me right in the dick. Was like a slap in the face but more in the dick than the face.

You're lucky your dick was there to block your nuts

[Click16]

I have experienced worse....

[neodos]

Click, it wouldn't surprise me you have got kicked in the nuts by a girl

[NotZachary82]

I have experienced worse....

You were kicked in the cunt?

[Click16]

lol no...

Really, what really happened was my older brother was angry at me so he went to kick me in the back while I was walking in the opposite direction. Because of that, I was going to be kicked harder, and farther.

But I saw this coming and tried to prevent it by turning around and blocking it. But I was a little late.

For some people, getting kicked in the nuts doesn't hurt unless you kick them square in them. But for me, that wasn't the case.

I was on the ground for like 3 minutes and when I got up, I threw up all over the floor. Not the most pleasant experience, but they aren't dead so I'm fine.

[OwnZ joO]

I've heard your balls actually don't have very many nerve endings in them. The pain comes from your muscles pulling them up to protect them. Getting hit in the dick fucking stings so bad because you do have a lot of nerves there.

[Zieon Eslador]

I love when people overreact. It hurts, a lot, but unless you are hit pretty hard (Click's example) it really isn't a huge deal.

[DemonicSandwich]

Fuck. I keep overloading my xbox's graphics because it too much bitmap data on screen at once.
I have to redo a few bitmaps on Outpost before it can load....without freezing the console.

Granted, it only occurs when the Outpost bitmaps, the level bitmaps of Relic below, and at least one object(player model) are in my line of sight.
However the fact that it happens means I need to lighten up on the resource whoring.

[neodos]

null out all the shaders of the sbsp not lightmap tho

[DemonicSandwich]

What I had one map (that I injected) was a 1024x DXT5 and a 512x P8, which was rather resource extensive. If I went into third person, spawned a warthog near one of the holes and looked down, console would freeze after 5-10 seconds.
It also didn't help that I didn't make LODs for them yet either.

Then I had to inject a 512x DXY5 and P8, which would very quickly freeze after adding just the DXT5.
I quickly redid the textures so now what would be two shaders is now a single shader with a 512x DXT5 and a 128x P8.
Which reduced the bitmap data size 6:1.
(one shader didn't even exist yet, now it won't )

The reason I'm trying to solve it without nulling the map shaders is because there is more shit that has to go in. Models(bases), map objects(crates, boxes, pallets), animations(lift fan, easter egg), effects(also lift fan), etc.
And if I can get what I have now working without freezing and without nulling map shaders, then I know that I'll have plenty of resources when I do null the map shaders.

[Click16]

Stuck between a rock and a hard place?

Demonic, I know you will figure it out. Just look at all those amazing mods that you have done, They are great. Now if you can't get this map loading without freezing due to resource hogging, I'm sure you will figure it out.

[Grimdoomer]

I doubt you are running out of resources. The engine only renders whats it your view, and there are SP maps that use way more resources. Send me your map on aim, I'll tell you exactly what's wrong.