Fragfests and Imbas

 

This article has been transferred to: http://imbacore.blogspot.com/2008/01/far-cry-2.html 

 

A friend of mine suggested using a proxy server in light of my problems with my ISP. I followed his advice and true to what he said, it is indeed giving me faster speeds than what I usually get. However, I grew concerned with streaming information through a "middleman" machine. I scoured the Net and found this:

Viaarena.com - How to Surf the Web Anonymously 

 

Take note that I have not used what are suggested in that article.  If you do so, and something adverse happens to your system, I will take no responsibility. Still, it’s a worthwhile read if you want to know more about proxy servers.

 

Here’s another one of my articles (if this can be called one) that only serve to remind me where a particular thingy in the web is.

Tryo Playlist at Radioblogclub.com

I don’t understand what these guys are saying but I like listening to the French language. Now before anyone of you throws me tomatoes or gives me roses, allow me to say that the FIRST time I heard hours-long French sequences was when I played my FIRST Xbox game. It was Halo 2. It kinda stuck; French = gaming bliss. Call it a direct opposite of a traumatic experience.

I mean hell, it was Halo 2 and the days my cousins called me "lata nga utan"!

Gods how I hated the Ivory Tower.

Update:

Yay! I found a Coldplay playlist!  

 

Here are some online broadband speed tests I found. S—Broken IS really broken. They should get their act together or I’m transferring as soon as my contract with them expires.

 

Speedtest.net

BroadbandMax

My Broadband Speed

Thanks to Fireblade of Tech-pc. 

 

I got intrigued by this free, online, fantasy-themed fighting game and decided to download and install it. The game has decent visuals and has none of the "grind" that other level-up games impose on their players. It offers quick, slam-bam-thank-you-naks-and-golems PVP action — or so the game’s creators advertise it to be. I never had the chance to find out.

AVG Free interprets the game’s anti-hack/cheat system as a virus. It promptly deleted some of its files and when I logged in next, the game refused to run.

I Googled for resources regarding my predicament and found several forums saying that AVG is indeed misinterpreting some of its files to be malware. I decided to do some online scanning as prompted by a thread in the forums of AVG, glanced at the report, and mailed their support team. This is their reply:

Dear Sir/Madam,

Thank you for your e-mail.

Please let us inform you that the false positive detection of the
"Gameguard.des" file will be removed in next virus database update.

AVG will not detect this file as a threat anymore.

In case of any other problem or question regarding AVG please feel free to
contact us.

Thank you.

Best regards,

     Jan [DELETED HIS SURNAME]
     AVG Technical Support

website: http://www.grisoft.com

—– Original Message —–
From: John
Subject: G#0702131621 - False Positive - Rakion’s Gameguard Anti-cheat Software

>Dear Grisoft Staff,
>
>I tried playing Rakion Philippines today and received an error message
>saying that part of the Gameguard software that the online game uses for
>anti-hacking/cheating has been modified or deleted. I scanned my PC for
>viruses using AVG free and it saw the Gameguard.des file as a
>"Obfustat.CMC".
>
>I Googled for a solution to my problem and saw several forums saying your
>software erroneously detects it as a virus. I scanned the file using the
>Online Malware Scan (http://virusscan.jotti.org/) and only your product
>detects it as such.
>
>I am convinced this is a false positive. Attached is the file.
>
>[GAVE A PASSWORD FOR THE FILE]
>
>Hope you will fix this in your next update for AVG Free.
>
>John
>
>PS
>
>Is there anyway I could know if it’s okay to install this game again? It
>hassles me that AVG automatically deletes its Gameguard everytime. Disabling AVG is out of >the question as I depend on your product to keep my system
>virus free.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Same
>

 Unfortunately, when I installed the game, AVG still sees it as malware. Either the update to the anti-virus has not been implemented yet, or the game has downloaded another version of its cheat/hack countermeasures that AVG still sees as a virus. (READ: It may not be a case of AVG failing to make alacritous corrections.)

I sent them another letter. In the meantime, Rakion players should not freak out if results spew out "Obfustat.des" warnings. It’s a mistake that the staff of AVG will hopefully rectify soon. (Though of course, if Rakion players have reason to believe that they got a virus from other sources, they should not dismiss the notion that it may indeed be a real virus this time.)

 

 

Update: AVG replied. This time there is a temporary fix. If you do implement this however, and if your rig somehow gets a real virus, do deactivate the exceptions and scan the game’s files.  (the virus may have infected the .des files in Gameguard —- which you will have set as exceptions. Anyway, if AVG still deletes the .des files, you can always install it and set the exceptions again. Instructions are found in the reply. See below.)

Dear Sir,

Thank you for your email.

We do our best to fix this and to added in our updates as soon as possible.

In this case it is necessary to update your AVG regularly. Also you can create
some temporary exception (in the "Excludes" tab) with "AVG Resident Shield" so
that you will be able to use the files until we prepare the fix for the problem.
To do that please, follow these steps:
- Launch AVG Control Center
- Double-click on Resident Shield component.
- Excludes tab
- Edit excludes

Thank you for your cooperation, it is highly appreciated.

     Best regards,

     Borislav [DELETED SURNAME]
     AVG Technical Support

website: http://www.grisoft.com

 

 

 

Ooooo…..kay. She’s wearing armor plates but why the red flimsy tights? Orcs could uhm, stick their uhm, weapons in her uhm, vulnerable areas….

Case in point: here:

 

And have I mentioned this character is putting Mai Shiranui of KOF to shame everytime she makes sudden movements?  

 

 

Hah! That got ya!

Seriously though, when is Id gonna release "Hell on Earth"? I mean imagine this: San Diego restaurants overrun with Imps, Cacodemons hovering over Times Square, Hell Knights stomping around malls. And it’s just you and them in a desolate cityscape. Or maybe not so desolate; Half-life 2 already got the devastated cityscape atmosphere so why not blue skies and a bustling, prosperous city (New York, San Diego?) when the first portals open?

Think about it. Id! Give us Doom 4!

Okay another month wherein my provider gave me dial-up speeds. Eff.

Doing overtimes with this speed and sooner or later your hair is gonna migrate. It’s like it has got a nursing license, applied for a visa, and just poof! migrated. I looked at the mirror one day and I realized that my hairline now looks like this: (now I got a beard; like my hair had a mind to get closer to the monitor. Maybe it likes porn.)

 

Well, not exactly him, since I worked like Mr. Anderson, followed the white rabbit, and instead of mescaline, drank diphenhyrdramine.  (It didn’t worked exactly like a sleeping pill on me; my gf was very ecstatic that dawn) So, ya, I look a bit like him:

 

I mean look at my forehead: (This was taken in my apartment. Sorry for the lighting.)

 

Gaaah. I have the same hairline as him. Maybe I need help? I have sudden hairloss!! Maybe it was gradual but heck I even forgot last month what the color of the sky was!

I should get help.

And I have the same forehead as Keanu!   Joking!

In sketching, I’ve always gravitated towards dark themes. In fact, the sunniest, most cheerful themes I’ve done were for a browser-based online game, TheFivePillars.org. The creatures are:

The Clockwork Dragon

The Desert Dreadnought

I really detest people who wear t-shirts with inverted pentagrams though.

I mean my demons, dragons, and other monsters I draw are not real. Wearing shirts emblazoned with the devil’s sigil is —- if you are just wearing it for the "macho" effect — plain stupid. (And if you are a serious follower, you should be closely monitored you sicko) 

Haven’t you heard what the Chinaman (oooh Francis he’s coming fer ya! lol!) said?

 

 

"The Devil is real; I know, I’ve been to his cage."

You wanna try those as tattoos? /me foams. Try (Christian) religious tattoos man! 

 "Those who fear the darkness have never seen what the light can do." - Selenia, the Dark Angel

 

 

My friend just recently bought Doom 3 and I jumped in his cafe to relive those moments blasting fireballing-hurling imps and zombified soldiers. Much to my dismay however, the game stuttered. The FPS was fine, but there was something definitely wrong with the eye-wrenching frames.

I went to Tweakguides.com, studied Koroush Ghazi’s Doom 3 Tweak Guide and made the following Autoexec.cfg for my friend:

image_cacheMinK 3686
image_useCache 1
image_cacheMegs 384
image_usePrecompressedTextures 1
image_useCompression 1
image_preload 1
image_useNormalCompression 2

r_useCachedDynamicModels 1
r_useConstantMaterials 1

r_useStateCaching 1

cm_backFaceCull 1
r_useShadowProjectedCull 1
r_orderIndexes 1
r_usePortals 1

com_purgeAll 1
r_skipMegaTexture 1
image_anisotropy 1

r_vertexBufferMegs 64

r_useShadowCulling 1
r_useTurboShadow 1
g_showPlayerShadow 0

g_bloodEffects 0

image_downSizeLimit 512

s_clipVolumes 0

 

After that we gave it a go, and voila! Smooth gameplay! Well his machine is exactly not top-of-the-line so we lowered the ingame setting here and there. But overall: the guide is very effective.

Take note that the list above is only a few of the many found in that site’s tweak guides and that they are set to what I believe is optimal for my friend’s PC. For your own settings, please visit the site and study the guide there.  

Graphics and who needs plastic surgery in Toronto: (the effect of playing Doom 3 while my cousin is surfing some of the best and better plastic surgery sites for her homework. )

 

He can do with what he has.

 

This guy? Definitely! Surgery yes, and gotta remove those pellets stuck in his cranium too.

 

Hopeless.

 

I mean, look at him. Tsk, should have used the pistol.  

 

I have a whole mountain of boxed games waiting to be installed. It’s a pity but I just simply do not have the time to play games. I’m like a dragon hoarding boxes containing CDs.* =)

 

 (*This dragon drinks coffee, not ichor, has gigantic eyebags, and is as lean as its progenitor, the ol’ tok`-ko. It also has a fondness for reef snorkeling and in fact it has, among its baubles, pictures of reefs and a dusty diving mask and snorkel. It plans to party again this summer.)

 

Each of those games costs $4.00 dollars. And (if I have the time) I can play them online.

 

Think about it, you and an opponent half a country away, doing the deadly dance of microing as both your armies slug it out in Gnoll Wood or you and your teammates coordinating in Tribes; your fellow Heavies pounding the entrance of the other team’s base as you in Light armor half a kilometer away snipes at their Medium troopers.

 

No amount of AI coding can give you the same degree of satisfaction as a well-planned base assault or beating that 13-year old God of Microing in a friendly RTS match.

 

Buy original games.

 

Consider the alternative: you can’t patch until you find a NoCD crack for that newest patch you are drooling over (your smug noobie friend’s fave imba race heavily nerfed!!), you can’t get the bumped up gloss effect your peers are showing off, and you’re stuck with deathmatches with lousy AI. (who don’t cuss at you when they get owned)

 

And omg, the prices! I once passed by a shady stall, and the prices for OLD games are double for what I pay for original ones! Are those SOBs nuts?

 

They are more expensive than original copies of 3-year old games!

 

The above was a rhetorical question, btw.

 

(Well, there are always the shady sites offering free downloads but that’s not the whole point of this rant.)

 

My friend just arrived from vacation and he saw an original boxed set of Battlefield 2145 being sold for only $28.00.

 

 If only I could go there and buy myself one. I mean, that’s driving a mech AND shooting real people for only 28 bucks!

 

And what’s wrong with the major suppliers here in our region? They don’t have websites! Uhm, hello? Your profits could well go beyond quadruple if you just use the Internet. /Me foams.

 

To the major suppliers: get a virtual life! Create a website where we hillbillies —- =) —– can splurge our salaries on! Let the pros do it:

 

Sticky Media Solutions, Inc.

 

Or set up a branch here on our city and get help from companies like this San Diego management consulting company.
 

I mean that one’s from another country but you get the point.

 

We will buy.

 

Make money.

 

Give us catharsis.

 

We will shoot our bais bai!