- 12:37 PM - Brandon
I need you to run by my house and get some info for me out of my Jeep. Text me when you get this please.
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August 31, 2005
August 30, 2005
- 2:19 PM - Posting from my phone
And the layout is right. Hehe.
EDIT: For some reason, spaces were replaced with a +. Perhaps it GETed the form?
August 29, 2005
- 6:21 PM - Quick note
Looks like most of us are fine. Neo is likely on his way home. Starian is out of the state. Sara's ok. The only harm done to my area is that our power is out, aside from the usual array of downed trees.
Once the power is back on I'll see about posting some pictures of aftermath. Until then I'll be checking in from time to time on my cellphone's browser. Keep New Orleans in your prayers. See you all later.
August 28, 2005
- 12:24 PM - Time to get out of Dodge...
...and go to Texas.
Given that this thing is a Category 5 (it doesn't get worse than Cat. 5... for you Californians it would be like if we knew a earthquake was coming and it was a 10 on the Richtor scale) we're going to be staying with relatives in Texas.
If you're in the path of the storm, be careful. If you aren't in the path of the storm, now's a good time to be thankful for that fact :)
Take care everyone.
- 10:52 AM - Katrina
So far they've issued a mandatory evac for Terrebonne parish (county to people who don't live in Louisiana). They've issued a mandatory evac for New Orleans as well, and many of the other areas in southern Louisiana. My family hasn't decided yet if we're going to bother heeding those warnings or not. I'm sure at this point, some of you out there are like "wtf are they thinking, get the hell out!" Heh. We'll see.
Either way, as long as my cellphone can hold a data signal I can post here, so if anything interesting happens I will keep you all posted.
Those of us who live in southern LA, myself, Neogladius, Stariandolphin, Lilith101, Paradigm, keep us all in mind over the next few days.
- 1:49 AM - F.E.A.R. this!
I finally got around to playing through the F.E.A.R. demo, and it was fan-freaking-tastic.
The graphics: stunning. The sound: realistic. The physics: awesome. The combat: exhilirating.
In the game, you play as a new recruit for a special black ops division of the United States Armed Forces called the First Encounter Assault Reconnasaince, or F.E.A.R., unit. Your first assignment is to suppress a situation at a top secret research laboratory where they were developing clone soldiers that would follow the commands of a single psychic commander... sounds like a recipe for disaster to me too, and one just happened. You have to get to the commander, who seems to have gone insane (or perhaps was insane to begin with?) and... well... "secure" the situation.
So, now that you know what you have to do in the demo, let me tell you about what happens as you actually try to do it (i.e. the game, not the story.) The demo level introduces you to what I thought was a surprising variety of weapons considering it looks as if it'll be the first level of the retail game. You start with a carbine and your pistol but quickly acquire an assault rifle and shotgun... from there on out you run across increasingly impressive weapons, the least impressive of which was a submachine gun with a very high rate of fire. The two weapons that really got my blood flowing were the particle beam cannon.. a weapon that turns your enemies into charred, black skeletons and a sniper rifle-ish weapon... sniper-ish in that it's very accurate on it's first shot and can easily kill with a well placed head shot, however it can be fired rapidly for less accuracy and more suppression... oh, and it fires foot long metal rods with a two inch diameter... I used it to literally pin one opponent's head to a wall.
Also, even though your character is fresh out of training, tests during his training showed that he had incredible reflexes and therefore he's already got some respect from his commanding officer. In the game, these super human reflexes come in the form of... you guessed it... the ability to send the game into slow motion. However, the slo mo in this game actually adds considerably to the visual effects.. it's not like in Max Payne where things just get slow and the bullet trails become visible... in F.E.A.R. slo mo changes the color of everything and bullet's don't just have trails.. they distort the world around them. It's... interesting.
Oh, and one other thing to mention. Throughout the demo level, your character keeps seeing... things.
It's going to be a very interesting game.
- 1:39 AM - Thanks TechGear
I just wanted to post a quick thanks to you guys for plugging my new site :)
August 27, 2005
- 11:34 PM - Old site's new address
I'm redirecting exonyte.dyndns.org to this site now, so if you need to access the old site for any reason, just hit:
http://archive.exonytesrealm.com/
Remember, if any of you need your account transferred, let me know.
Update (1:34 AM, 2005-08-28): Ok, so old direct links don't work. >_< Just change exonyte.dyndns.org in old links to archive.exonytesrealm.com and it'll be fine.
- 3:28 PM - Tee Hee
Finally, the layout rules once again.
Anyways, I'm going to edit my link on my site now.
- 10:16 AM - Looks like I might be just in time
Latest word says a category four hurricane will be hitting my area. Honestly, I'm not too worried about it, but if the old site goes down due to a power outage this site will still be up and running.
If any of you want to keep an eye on things here, head to any of the weather websites and plug in the zip code 70359.
August 26, 2005
- 11:37 PM - Neogladius and the Quest for Squirrel!
Alright, so it's Amy's birthday tommorrow. (For those of you who are not in the know, Amy is a really cute girl I work with and went on a few dates with but just wound up being friends with because she got back together with her ex-boyfriend... long story, but the important facts are that the two of us are now in a very close, caring friendship.. which when added to the fact that we still have an attraction to one another adds up to something her boyfriend ain't happy about.) So anyway, I've already given her a present, a book that I know she's been wanting for about two months but she's never gotten around to getting it. However, she has to work tommorrow, and she's kind of upset about that so I was planning on getting her something and leaving it in her locker for her to find when she got to work to kind of counteract the bad mood I know she'll be in when she gets there. I'd already been thinking about getting her a stuffed animal when she told me a story about what happened on her way to work today: she hit a squirrel.
Some of you just winced, some of you were slightly taken aback, but some of you have an idea of where I'm going with this, and it was you, my friends, who just giggled.
I was already thinking about getting her some form of stuffed animal, though, admittedly, I had my mind set on carnivores; you know, bears, dogs, animals of that ilk. However, as I was standing there later looking at a mountain of stuffed animals in the Hallmark shop, I had an epiphany. I was going to get her a stuffed squirrel along with a birthday card with this simple message:
"Smile! Sure, you have to work on your birthday, but don't let it get you down. Just remember, you are having a *much* better day than that squirrel you hit yesterday."
Many of you out there would be offended and/or upset if you got a card like that for your birthday. I know Amy, however, and I know that she's going to think it's one of the funniest things she's ever seen. The problem was, Hallmark was fresh out of stuffed squirrels. And so it was that I and Matt (Paradigm) began a quest for squirrel! (Note: Matt went with me to Hallmark to buy a card for his girlfriend. He followed me on my quest out of lack of anything better to do :) )
And so we traversed the mall; me prancing about and Matt banging two halves of a coconut shell together (we're not sure, but we think the coconut may have been carried there by a swallow...). We searched through Hallmark, Kaybee Toys, Coach House, Kirklands, and even a little doll shop. And it was all in vain. Therefore, we left the mall for the far off land of Wal-Mart, where again our search proved to be in vain. Our quest ended, oddly enough, at Books-A-Million... where we again failed to find a stuffed squirrel, but found something just as good. I found a birthday card with the the picture of a squirrel with his face stuffed with nuts on the cover and on the inside it says "Go NUTS on your birthday!" It wouldn't be a card I'd normally get for a friend of mine (it'd just be too corny) but the fact that she actually ran over a squirrel today and the fact that I included the previously mentioned message should get a good laugh out of her.
- 9:36 PM - Yay for new site!
I see no point in clearing off the old posts and stuff here. It's like a development history, sort of... Anyways, welcome to the new site. If you need to register an account, click the link in the top right, otherwise feel free to log in and post on the forums.
As always, while this thing was tested pretty well, if you find bugs, let me know!
Oh, and to the staff, I know there are incomplete features in the admin section.
August 17, 2005
- 2:32 AM - Further tweaks.
Alrighty.
I shrunk the font-size for the tagline and post count, and I made the minimum height for a forum post a bit larger, so now it's impossible for the tagline to mess things up. I also added maxlengths to the Edit Profile form, so no more issues there.
August 7, 2005
- 1:36 AM - <form> fixin'
I *finally* reworked the forms so that they behave a little better. They probably cause problems at low resolutions, but I don't care anymore... am I mean? :p
So, yeah... any thoughts?
May 22, 2005
- 12:23 AM - Considering a name change
I'm considering changing my nickname.. why?
A: No one can pronounce Neogladius.
B: No one knows what it means.
C: It's meaning is less relevant outside of video gaming.
D: I'm just wanting a change... Kind of like Brandon when he went from CyberHawk_Z to eXonyte.
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