frank lee

Why ask me? Tell you what, put three shovels in your inventory, then take your pick. :tongue:

yea i thought about toonit and adobe pro CS5 but, like you said, wayyyyy to expensive for my taste lol! in the mean while, im stuck with windows live movie maker until i can get my hands on a better movie/editing software. THANKS! You might want to look at this; Free Cartoon Effect

Lol, Quite possibly yes :blush: But hey, paranoids have enemies too.

Just Googled Hatsune Miku. Stab me, it's an Idoru! That one got right past me. But nice vid guy. Have you considered ToonIt! or any of the auto-rotoscope filters. They are expensive, especially in processioning power but would suit something like that.

Lol. I'd pay money to see someone pickpocket a shovel ;D But shovels seem to be slippery in New Vegas, I've left two that have disappeared. One in a mod player home and one in Goodsprings Cemetery.

Thank you for your kind opinion of my opinions. I'll amplify on what I know, Apart from being absurdly well traveled in the course of my work (looking like S.Africa next) I not only rarely move in the Marriott/Hilton tourist zone, but I am intimate enough with the workings of London's famous street-markets to understand what I'm seeing in more 'interesting' places. In London's Brick Lane or Portabello Rd up until a couple of years ago it was possible to buy any game, any movie or any music, pirated! Recently the 'UK Trading Standards Office' with assistance from the Police service has all but stamped this out. Now as far as Digital Rights is concerned, this is a good thing. Also as the greater part of the movies being sold were originating in London's Triad gangs who also move much of the capitol's heroin etc. But it is important to understand the local authorities receive very little 'pressure' from the studios and film distributors. And what that pressure amounts to, is little more than moaning. So the motivation to pay their employees double time to stomp round a Sunday morning market with policemen examining the 800 stalls of crap in Wembly market must come from elsewhere, no? Well it's pretty simple, politics, the street markets were anarchic, barely controlled, free for all's and modern political thought wants control of EVERYTHING! So the the DRM issue has given all sorts of petty local authority wannabe politicians the excuse to wade in and mess with informal institutions, such as the famous street markets of old London town (most of which are considerably older than the United States!) In short the great 'Piracy problem' is being used as an excuse to mess with people's rights (mostly the right to buy cheap crap that isn't worth the 50pence they paid, but hey!) Now take that street market to the sub-continent and it makes Portabello Rd look as regulated as Marks&Spencer's or Macy's. Whats more with their own film industry (that they are failing to protect) they don't give a rats rectum for Hollywood... "Business is good dōsta, business is good" So here in the 'western world' DRM and the 'Piracy problem' are being mostly used to erode privacy's or erode consumer rights, even the 'idea' of consumer rights is under attack. And that is one of the more pernicious memes of modern political thought. So what we are seeing with Steam is in fact a base 'state change' for the internet. Someone, somewhere has decided that the internet should not continue to grow like an anarchic street market. They have decided that you or we are too stupid to look after our own interests. That we cannot be trusted not to buy crap, not have our digital pockets picked and that we shouldn't be allowed out without a keeper. Because monster multinationals like MGM and Sony Media are afraid of the Dev Patel's and Del boy Trotters we have to be as well!

I had the most trouble with quest order. The plot is more linear than Fo3 but the game is just as open so would it have been so hard to have one of the sentries at Maccaran to direct the player to Col Hsu's office for example? If the player made New Vegas by way of Novacs then how exactly are you going to find the Great Khans before your killing Motorunner and ending the 'Abba Dabba Honeymoon quest'? There is a lot of stuff like that and I think the devs missed several tricks that would have helped. But the thing I missed the most, in view of the fractional infighting was someone like Old Ben to talk about this stuff. A non partisan NPC or two to give some clues about where some in-game decisions would take you would have been a huge help. Just an NPC in a bar or something that could respond to the players progress through the game would do, but that was one of effects things that Threedogs had in Fo3 and it's more badly needed in FoNV.

My last one was a bit slow wasn't it, a bit 'Paris, Texas' gloomy shaman s**t. So lets pick up the beat with something inspired by the 'Bad Karma' thread (which I've enjoyed a lot) So without further ado Ladies and Gentlemen, Put your hands together for joan jett and the blackhearts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BSNTYorSFE joanjett.com

Bad Reputation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BSNTYorSFE

Once more, at least half of the pirate copies will be sold, pre hacked, on disk. In street markets all across the world, one person has either downloaded a hacked copy or in places like Mumbai or Manila with loads of local programming talent just hacks it on the spot. An STEAM isn't going to even slow that down! Its not going to make the slightest difference. And as I cannot bring myself to believe the devs are completely stupid and unaware of this then I have to ask what else are they getting out of it? because it isn't security. At this point I'll let my paranoia off the leash. Supposing a cabal of people with a vision for the future of PC use wanted to get the public accustomed to not having control of their PC's systems. Oh wait, they have already done that most of us have more idea of whats going on on the other side of the planet than whats happening in our 'system32' folder. So maybe Steam is a tool for manufacturing consent for null ownership, where simply paying for something gives you no rights whatsoever (except paying again and again!) If that sounds wild try, weaponization of internet space! does anyone here doubt that your steam installation couldn't cripple or destroy your operating system if it was directed to? Military intelligence assessments are based on what an opponent 'Could' do, not! what they currently 'want' to do. And if you believe that the folk behind Steam put 'Your' interests first . . . You are hallucinating! And in the extremely unlikely event that, that were the case, what about next month, next year. . . Well I think we've heard enough from paranoia, interesting place to visit but you wouldn't want to live there eh? But as for "There is nothing "evil" about making profit, its what the world economy is based on, its why we have progression". Er, well in many cases yes there is, that's why its down the $h!tter and ask someone in Zimbabwe about progress.

Why is it stealing to take the sodding medicines the bright followers have left? They've gone, not coming back and my character, who's been through all sorts of hell on their behalf looses Kama for taking some meds. Gimme a break! Not my first play through, I stealthed my way around the ferals, didn't harm a hair on their radioactive heads. Took some lumps from the nightkin and some more from the golden geckos. I don't believe Jason would begrudge me. . . :rolleyes:

The Graphics card is only 3 weeks old! Previously running the game on a 512 courtesy card was a glitch fest, new card & drivers glitcharama gone, except usual nav mesh and recognized quest bugs. Post update 4 a fresh crop of weirdness different from stuff that was happening even with the 512 card in.

Since update 4 (1.2.0.314 Patch) I've had some interesting stuff occurring. Thought it might be useful to catalog them and keep the New Patch by Jim_UK thread for general discussion. So if any of the genius(es? Geniii??) that come up with stuff like 'Community Bugfix' need to refer they don't have to wade through dozens of pages of chat. Installed the patch and new NVSE. Went back to a Lvl1 save and restarted the game mods 'n all Player character went transparent in Primm (about 50%) restarted an shortly CDT Locked up ghoul west of Nipton road reststop. shot him then went up and hit it with sword - CDT Nipton - no bodies on crosses Nipton road pit stop now has some ferocious respawn rate. Like the vipers respawn if I cross the road! that's what I got so far but I'm not accustomed to CDT's an if this gets any worse I'm gonna try rollback or reinstall

As I'm having a whole crop of fresh bugs post update 4, I'll open a new thread just to catalog them. Hopefully some genius can figure out what it all signifies.

I wouldn't dream of disputing your superior knowledge but to clarify, your saying they are a charity? Some sort of institute or philanthropic foundation for the advancement of gamers interests? Like I say you know more than I on this, but that seems . . . Unlikely.

Announcing the birth of a brand new bouncing baby BUG! I just went transparent! Came out of the Captains tent in Primm and I was see through. Changed clothes an just my characters head and hat were transparent. Changed the hat then just my head. Hey ho, an look on the bright side, think of the savings in sun-block. Edit; Restarted, ghost effect gone. twenty minutes later my very first CTD

I'm sorry I can't remember exactly what this is (I've did so much to get it running) but there's an FFDShow deal. . . I think you have to make an exception in one of the codecs that tries to 'help' FoNV reproduce the sound. I had some horrendous speech lagging before I did this. I can't even find the damn control now but I hope this is a clue.

If you look up some of the other threads that touch on the subject (an it's amazing how many topics it get brought up in!) You'll see that people are concerned about; Effectively not owning something they have paid for, The bandwidth cost of the system, The arbitrary exclusion of everyone without internet, Period! Not having control of what installed in THEIR machine, The implications for the future of PC games, and last but not least; It doesn't f**king work for many people! Oh yea, and the latest patch has broken some mods. . .

All the big talent is currently riffing in the key of Wikileaks, also I'm not convinced 'attacking' it would be the right approach. Many years ago a friend bought a newly invented answering machine, he was extremely proud of being cutting edge so we thought we would bring him down a peg. We called him repeatedly with messages that went something like this: Dave, Hi there, Hi there, there, there, there, Dave Hi there, Dave I think, Dave I think, I think there's, think there's, think there's something wrong, wrong with, wrong with, wrong with your machine, Dave Hi there. . . . He took it back to the shop four times! I was 'consulted' some time ago about 'fixing' a companies vehicle tracking system which the employees felt was intrusive and an invasion of privacy and the company had clearly abused. My advice was not to break the system, leaving people vulnerable to the repercussions but to discredit it. I put them in touch with someone who 'theoretically' could clone some of the vehicles. Then mask the real vehicle's signal and attach the clone to heavy goods transports bound for Murmansk or other unlikely destinations. This would produced the effect of seeing a car parked outside the offices while the tracking software said it was on the Paris ring-road! The destruction of STEAM would be best accomplished in the minds of those that believe in the idea!

Turin Test; fail! Is Pagafyr in there? can we speak to Pagafyr? :laugh: EDIT; Yea New York island, area would be good.

Okay, patch went in no problem. NVSE no Problem. Readius is good. Still get staggers as I move from the Goodspings cell to the cemetery cell and the texture is still lagging but it seems a tad less pronounced. That's all I have for now, seems to be good.

I seems as if the Karma system needs overhauling or abandoning. The only way I could imagine it becoming useful would be starting the game with a challenge to calibrate it to the player, something like the goat test. This gets a bit philosophical (and a lot, controversial) but it has been said that people like Adolf Hitler had NO negative karma for reasons like; he was completely insane, he believed he was doing the right thing and most controversially that he was a tool of the karma of his victims (we can all agree he was a f**king tool) Anyhow the Karma system 'could' be a useful and entertaining aspect of gameplay if it was reconsidered and reimplemented but what we are playing with at the moment is just something left over from some other game.

Oh hell yes! There were so many times I wanted to turn my gun on her for that. Then again, there have been a few instances where I did shoot her, all be it on accident when she picked up a melee weapon and then ran right out in front of my character. I wonder if she was originally supposed to be a blond. Perhaps I should go change that in the GECK. I have to console the 'spray and pray' perk! Don't any of the companions understand the idea 'The Range is hot' They spend most of their time trailing 50 yards behind you until you port arms, then they do their best to get between you and the opposition. The patch is supposed to 'fix' the companions. . .

Here's a walkthrough of installing Location-music New Wasteland Music This is an explanation of inserting music to a specific location, lots of screen shots, slow to load but very thorough.

The thing I really want to know does this patch cure Veronica of picking up a pool cue to attack deathclaws, after I've given her some top notch gun?