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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Half-Life 10 Year Anniversary Sale: $1 (Ends Friday Nov. 21)

« Last post by Deozaan on December 01, 2008, 02:58 PM »

In related news, there's a group of people making a Half-Life remake called Black Mesa, which is a total conversion mod to the Source Engine.

Having just played through the entirety of Half-Life in the past two weeks I just have to say that the video looks awesome!

For more information and the video, check out the Joystiq article I found this information from:


Fan-made Black Mesa trailer reinvents original Half-Life

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General Software Discussion / Re: ghacks christmas giveaway and reviews

« Last post by Deozaan on November 30, 2008, 05:22 PM »

The 24 days of Christmas?

But please, no partridges in pear trees.

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Living Room / Re: Tech News Weekly: Edition 48

« Last post by Deozaan on November 29, 2008, 10:07 PM »

#4: What is MS08-067?

#5: Wow, what is this? A judge who knows a thing or two about technology?

#6: Great until the bad guys can fake the messages to kill computers.

#7: Awesome! I want to have to pay 5 cents for text messages every time I want to log in to PayPal!

Thanks Ehtyar!

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Living Room / Re: Why does it say paper jam when there is no paper jam?!

« Last post by Deozaan on November 27, 2008, 04:14 PM »

you have to scour your posts with a fine tooth comb -- go over every word multiple times -- read it aloud to yourself -- get your friends to proof read it, and only then is it safe to post and have even a slim chance of escaping Chris' pun processing machine.

-mouser (November 27, 2008, 04:10 PM)

[Off-Topic]
I found out a few weeks ago that my English 102 teacher absolutely hates puns. How can you like English enough to spend your life teaching it but not enjoy playing around with the words?
[/Off-Topic]

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Rewards

« Last post by Deozaan on November 27, 2008, 04:11 PM »

What's with the prices thoguh? 65 quid for a mug?

-justice (November 27, 2008, 04:01 AM)

This shop has been set up as a way to thank those people who are making unusually large donations to DonationCoder.com. The items in this store have been marked up substantially, so that we receive from $50 to $75 of each purchase; this is your donation to our site.

-http://www.cafepress.com/donationcoder

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Living Room / Re: Where the hell is Ralf Maximus?

« Last post by Deozaan on November 27, 2008, 03:37 PM »

Gee, I'd leave too if I thought I'd get a welcome back like you're enjoying  

-cranioscopical (November 27, 2008, 03:36 PM)

You'd probably get a good riddance the likes of which the world has never before seen. So that should count for something.

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Living Room / Re: Where the hell is Ralf Maximus?

« Last post by Deozaan on November 27, 2008, 03:33 PM »

Good to have you back, Ralf!

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Living Room / Re: How to tell if your cat is plotting to KILL you

« Last post by Deozaan on November 27, 2008, 03:57 AM »

The truth revealed!

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Free License for Photo Pos Pro

« Last post by Deozaan on November 27, 2008, 01:33 AM »

Here is a cap of the mail:

-aoyase (November 25, 2008, 11:05 PM)

I'm not sure that it's a good idea to post a screen shot of your serial code, even if it is worthless without the Key ID.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Half-Life 10 Year Anniversary Sale: $1 (Ends Friday Nov. 21)

« Last post by Deozaan on November 26, 2008, 09:54 PM »

Anyone care to shed some light on the details?

-Deozaan (November 26, 2008, 09:22 PM)

it's been a long time but doesn't Freeman goes into some kind of portal at the end? from which he makes his entry in HL2

also this might help: http://www.gamefaqs....win/file/43362/54040

-lanux128 (November 26, 2008, 09:47 PM)

Hmm... I don't remember Gordon starting from a portal in HL2. I thought it was just on a train again. Been too long since I played that one, too, apparently...

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Half-Life 10 Year Anniversary Sale: $1 (Ends Friday Nov. 21)

« Last post by Deozaan on November 26, 2008, 09:22 PM »

In other news, and bringing the thread back on topic, I finished Half-Life yesterday. Very good game. But I don't see how the ending relates to the beginning of Half-Life 2.

Anyone care to shed some light on the details?

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Living Room / Re: Toblo game crashes no matter what...

« Last post by Deozaan on November 26, 2008, 06:14 AM »

Once again, I can only suggest you try tech support or the forums that are specifically for this game. The people here at DonationCoder are a helpful bunch, but for something like technical support for a game, you really ought to contact the people who made the game or find a forum dedicated to the game to see if anyone else has had similar problems and found a solution.

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Living Room / Re: Why does it say paper jam when there is no paper jam?!

« Last post by Deozaan on November 25, 2008, 02:13 PM »

Do people drug their cats for these videos, or are all those animals just that batshit insane?

-f0dder (November 25, 2008, 02:06 PM)

Not all of them. Just most of them.

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Official Announcements / Re: Licence key for Tennis Elbow Manager

« Last post by Deozaan on November 24, 2008, 06:21 PM »

Are you serious? Tennis Elbow Manager? What is that, some medical sports sim where you manage patients with tennis elbow?

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Living Room / Re: Gmail launches themes

« Last post by Deozaan on November 21, 2008, 01:05 PM »

I think it's okay to have the option but I didn't like that they decided to automatically change my theme for me. I think I switched it back to the Classic style.

I'm indifferent to the themes. I don't see myself using them, but I'm not opposed to the choice being there for other people.

Off-Topic

That is just the world needed right now, this should solve the hunger and economic downturn for next 200 years.  Good move Google

-kartal (November 21, 2008, 12:04 PM)

What are you doing to solve world hunger and economic downturn?

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Half-Life 10 Year Anniversary Sale: $1 (Ends Friday Nov. 21)

« Last post by Deozaan on November 21, 2008, 12:58 PM »

Transaction complete. Enjoy the game!

For everybody else: Only 1 hour left!

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Half-Life 10 Year Anniversary Sale: $1 (Ends Friday Nov. 21)

« Last post by Deozaan on November 21, 2008, 11:15 AM »

Okay, so here's an update:

I just found out that this offer ends at NOON PST. That's less than 3 hours from now. Also, for me to gift it to you with your Steam user name, we actually need to add each other to our friends lists. So if you don't want to do that, then I'll need your e-mail address instead of your Steam user name.

Hurry! Time's almost up!

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Living Room / Re: When a home server goes to the dark side: A hands on experience

« Last post by Deozaan on November 20, 2008, 07:11 PM »

Sounds like a nightmare!

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Developer's Corner / Re: DC loads fast. What is the secret.

« Last post by Deozaan on November 20, 2008, 07:01 PM »

Why do we fail to attract nasty trolls and stupid idiots?

-f0dder (November 20, 2008, 08:54 AM)

So, you think you're free of stupid idiots, eh?

Time for another limerick, perhaps...

-cranioscopical (November 20, 2008, 03:48 PM)

Hey! As someone who helped create that limerick, I resemble that remark!

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Half-Life 10 Year Anniversary Sale: $1 (Ends Friday Nov. 21)

« Last post by Deozaan on November 20, 2008, 06:37 PM »

By the way, if anyone needs me to "gift" it to them on Steam, I'll happily take a DonationCredit as compensation. Actually, that works out to 2 cents in my favor, so if you can do it yourself that's probably better. But just thought I'd offer in case there were any weird geographical limitations or something similar.

If you take me up on this offer, include your Steam user name in the message box for the DonationCredit transfer. You'll also need to add me to your friends list. My Steam user name is Deozaan.

Either that or give me your e-mail address in the DonationCredit transfer and you will receive an e-mail telling you how to get the game on Steam.

EDIT: Updated instructions.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Half-Life 10 Year Anniversary Sale: $1 (Ends Friday Nov. 21)

« Last post by Deozaan on November 20, 2008, 06:34 PM »

Steam is celebrating the 10 year anniversary of Half-Life by reducing the price of Half-Life 1 to just $0.98. As someone who absolutely loved the original Half-Life but for some reason never finished it, I'll be snatching up this deal! UPDATE: The deal has ended.. Sorry if you missed out!

Here's an excerpt from my review from The Best Games You've Never Played thread:

Half-Life 1 was incredible to me because it was the first FPS game (I know of) that actually had a real story about why you were going around killing things. It was the total opposite of the macho FPS "Bad Dude" games of the day like Doom, Quake, or Duke Nukem 3D. You weren't there because you were a tough mofo and the world/universe relied on you for its survival. You were just in the wrong place at the wrong time and you're just trying to get out alive. You don't even start out with a weapon. When you first encounter the enemies, you've got to RUN! Plus, the way it loaded sections of the game kept you interested in the story because you were always trying to survive one disaster after another. There was no transition between levels where you could look at your statistics and save and rest and relax. It would have made a great sci-fi book (or dare I say movie?) if properly adapted.

-https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=11606.msg104034#msg104034

Why are you still reading this? Hurry up and buy it!

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: new birdy comic website from nudone and timns

« Last post by Deozaan on November 19, 2008, 03:55 PM »

Being hijacked is a hell of a way to get the sites noticed  I usually prefer if people just "stumble" us

-timns (November 19, 2008, 03:39 AM)

It didn't take being hijacked for me to notice HitC. I've been a silent follower of HitC and the Codex ever since they were announced here.

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PHP / Re: Before you start the PHP Assignments

« Last post by Deozaan on November 19, 2008, 03:52 PM »

Oy, I pulled the plug on it. I didn't realize anyone actually used it.

-allen (November 19, 2008, 03:44 PM)

My guess is that no one really does. But if that's the case, maybe you should edit your previous post to say that the sandbox is no longer available.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: new birdy comic website from nudone and timns

« Last post by Deozaan on November 19, 2008, 02:16 AM »

Deozaan: I just manually typed in the looong feedburner RSS URL from your google reader screenshot, and it works just fine here. Perhaps something is wrong with google reader, or somebody has done some DNS poisoning?

-f0dder (November 19, 2008, 01:59 AM)

It must be Google Reader. I just typed it in too and it took me to the appropriate website. Anyone know what can be done to notify Google about this?

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: new birdy comic website from nudone and timns

« Last post by Deozaan on November 19, 2008, 01:43 AM »

Also, I figured I should note that this is from Google Reader. None of the images are loading properly anymore and the URL the words "Monday, Monday" links to when I click is shown in the Address Bar.

It says Head in the Clouds in the URL, but it takes me to that malware site.