Primal Zed

Banned for being a wuss

Banned for being anti-anti-intellectual

banned for diminishing the effective verbiage in the English nomenclature

Oh but I have used it. It's the OS i keep on my old laptop. But it still relies heavily on the command prompt to get things not readily available in the Install Programs thing. Also, drivers were a pain, and I don't think I ever got my Belkin wireless card working when I set up the dual booting for it on my desktop. I haven't tried Mint, though.

Yay unproductive ranting?

It's MS vs Linux now? I don't really think it's much of a contest - until Linux gets becomes much more intuitive to use for the common user, most people will stick with Windows.

I don't mind having custom game settings ranked, but I agree there should be an indicator of non-default settings in the lobby. Until then, you are perfectly capable of checking the game settings yourself. I do every time.

Banned for saying practically the same thing as Heavenfall

banned for not realizing someone else already brought up the source of my avatar.

[quote]EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at address 0x0044e84c attempted to read memory at 0x00000000[/quote] my thoughts is it's a bad install. Either files are corrupt, or missing entirely (based on some of the 'warnings' in the report). If Demigod has some kind of executable to check for corrupt files and fix them, use that. If not, completely uninstall it and then do a fresh install. If that doesn't work, run a hardware diagnostic on your RAM and HDD.

Banned for being surprised a pirate would steal. (real source of my avatar: http://www.mandolux.com/archive/2006/0601.html )

banned for spreading hate instead of love

I've been in the HoN beta for a couple days now, and despite the item system being incredibly obnoxious, I think I've been enjoying it. Demigod was my first TCG, so the differences do take some getting used to, but things like the limited camera don't destroy my impression of HoN.

banned for repetition

[quote] I've only played custom game for the record.[/quote] Then why are you posting in this thread? The topic doesn't concern you.

Banned for promoting censorship

Gadget currently looks like the teleport scroll when it is being cast, and I think looks like the wand of speed buff when it hits the person (though whatever graphic it is when it hits the person doesn't much matter, because it usually gets unnoticed in the death animation)

banned for not noticing me flying the Jolly Roger. worst ninjas ever.

Well when I try to go to the Microsoft website to research this, I get 'temporarily unavailable' this morning. Suck. Anyway, that error code is for 'internet connection aborted.' I know it's cliche, but did you try restarting? SP2 might not be fully installed until then.

banned for loyalty without thought

It was your experience, and I can't change your perception of it. However, without strict means of analyzing and proving others' reports of "host quit exploits," this list will quickly lose its integrity and usefulness.

I like Google too. You just won't see me trying to defend them in any debates regarding their business practices.

Scot, if you want any help with the programming side of things, feel free to give me a ping about it. I've not used scmap before, but I have some experience in lua, training in computer graphics, and I'm a software engineer by profession. edit: while i'm sitting here bragging about myself, I should clarify that by 'training in computer graphics', I don't mean in regards to art. I've only limited success at modeling anything myself, but I know how to use OpenGL and moderate posit

As much as I had fun with these games, I remember absolutely hating the escort missions [e digicons]X|[/e]

I am reminded of Starkers saying that he didn't believe Microsoft data mined because he never saw evidence of it in his personal use. Just because you are unaware that it happens, in light of numerous people stating that is does along with specific examples, doesn't mean that Google does not omit results.