A true genius but troubled soul.
I've been fascinated about this guy for most of my life.

He died in the Icelandic capital Reykjavik.


Read more - link -


Quote from Russian chess grandmaster Mark Taimanov

It is symbolic that he died at 64 as 64 is the number that symbolises the chess board

There's been books, a movie which 'kind of' was about him - link - and much stuff on youtube.
Probably the most debated person in chess.

Well, many of you know I've had no PC all year :( My old one's mobo died. It was great system that gave me many years of joy.

AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton (o/c)
Abit NF7-S v2 BIOS ID: 25
GeIL PC3700 Golden Dragon 2 x 512MB (o/c)
XFX GeForce 6800 GT
Creative Audigy2 ZS
Western Digital SATA 10000prm Raptors
Power Enermax Noisetaker 600W
Case Lian-LI PC60 modded
WinXP Pro SP2 directX 9.0c
Swiftech water-cooled CPU

the new one!

Q6600
Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6
4GB GeIL PC6400
8800GT

I'll be installing Vista ult 64 soon.


I have to say that this system runs game beautifully! The old one still ran all my games but at very low settings while the new one gives as much eye candy as I can handle ;p



Thanks to the following for helping me with the upgrade:

• TOG OldnBold
• TOG Binary-Ninja
• rok shim

Ever wondered what a rebound relationship is?

A rebound relationship is one where you (or your partner if they're the one rebounding) are still affected by a previous significant relationship. That impacts on either the quality of the current relationship or your perception of it.

In essence, when you're in a rebound relationship you spend a significant amount of time focusing on your previous one. Focusing on what could have been, what went wrong, wondering if you did the right thing in splitting up and lots more besides. All the time you focus on your old relationship you are draining the potential of your current one to be successful.

You spend the time focusing on the old relationship because you have unanswered questions, because you still hurt from some of the experiences you went through, because you haven't taken the time that your mind and your heart needs to work through the painful emotions you're still feeling.

More info - here -



That was a community message from your friendly neighbourhood nerd ;p

There are some great things coming to ETQW :)

• New User Interface Features
• Basic Training for New Players
• Auto-Downloading
• ETQW:TV
• Further Gameplay Balance Improvements
• Networking
• Bug Fixes


Full details - here -

nedETQW

• for testing
• BOT play
• LAN ready


rokETQW

• prac server for Regiment of Khaos clan and friends
• same settings as nedETQW
• 202.60.93.15:27753
• passworded
• available to use for testing and scrims - contact me -



details - here -

Soldier of Fortune: Payback

• original version banned in Australia 16-Oct-07 - OFLC link -
• revised version given an MA 15+ rating 21-Nov-07 - OFLC link -

... in order to meet the requirements, the ragdoll physics and blood levels have been toned down, and there will be no dismemberment in the Australian release.

Soldier of Fortune Payback will be available early 2008 for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.

- IGN: Soldier of Fortune: Payback Gets AU Classification -

Last Man Standing Coop Mod is a Doom 3 Single Player and Multiplayer cooperative modification that aims to bring back the feel of the classic Dooms. Our LMS Mod gametype is survival in nature where you face swarms of attacking monsters to the adrenaline pumping energy of heavy metal soundtracks. We also fully support Cooperative play in the Single Player levels through the SP Coop gametype and the Doom 3 expansion pack ROE through the gametype ROE Coop. Also the Classic Doom for Doom 3 Mod has been integrated into LMS 3.0 to provide cooperative support!

v3.5 is a pre-v4 beta release. Main changes from v3 include:
-now works with latest patch v1.3.1
-various map bugs fixed
-various crash issues fixed
-vote results are now outputed properly
-added client tracking
-new coop scoring system
-new LMS theme song
-all of the zombies will now ragdoll
-lag improvments


Gametypes in this mod:

• LMS - killfest, progression, or defense style play.
• Classic Doom for Doom 3 coop
• Doom 3 coop
• Doom 3 ROE coop


-see readme and manual in docs folder for full details-


LMS v3.5 can be downloaded from - here -
Last Man Standing site
- http://lms.d3files.com -




When v4 is released I'll host a server for it!
A v3.5 test server will be ready soon.

The Australian Office of Film and Literature Classification - link - has given the upcoming Soldier of Fortune Payback a 'Refused Classification' (RC) rating. Apparently there is no official R18+ rating for games in Australia so anything that would normally fit into this catagory is simply banned.

This isn't just a rumor, it's listed in the above site on their database.


Soldeir of Fortune Payback official site
http://mercenarieswanted.com


Here are a couple of articles regarding the ban:
• http://1up.com/do/newsStory/sofp-ban
• http://news.com.au/story/sofp-ban



All this really does is reduce sales to game selling businesses and prevents servers from being run in Australia. Looks like the NZ servers will be busy. The already large problem of piracy and torrent downloading will now get worse in November when this game is released overseas. Australian businesses will now lose money simply because Australia doesn't have an R18+ rating for games... eg. game selling businesses and game server providers.

How hard can it be to include an R18+ rating for games?
It's there for other forms of media so why not games?


:[

Well... first it looked like the game was being held back for release in Australia while the rest of the world got it... this was apparently a marketing decision...

NOW... it looks like it's banned in Australia!!! - gamespot-news -


I'm phoning the - OFLC - tomorrow for confirmation.

Well it's official!

After years of rumors it's finally going to happen. The next installment of the Soldier of Fortune series is about to be released. Mid November. Activision is releasing Soldier of Fortune Payback.

- http://www.1up.com/do/gameOverview?cId=3163466 -


^^^ check the above link for some ingame footage!

For multiplayer, there will be standard Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch and Capture the Flag modes, along with Elimination and Demolition modes, which we don't know much about at this point. There will be long-term stat tracking included for those who play online.

Let's hope there is a client option to disable stats.
What is it with noobs and stats now-a-days?