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KittyCat said:
Kurayami said:
Heh heh.
Is that your playing name?
I can be found most nights (even with my card crashing me) on Cheater's Wayside, Cheater's Darkside, or 5150 East.
If you want competition... well. Only the best play there :p
I play under this name. I'm Light D.
I'mgood. I'm really good. I can mine/disk your ass right away from myflag. I can pretty much snipe anything that moves (that's been my favsince I got it :p) But I'm not great. Guys like 5150 or The Sticks aregreat.
I've been playing for 2 years, though... so you want me on your team :p
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JuggerNaught said:
he was spamming the serial rapist shit because kotz the stalker was talking about how he was going to go to kura's home town and track him down. was trying to get the round jew with the std's to fund it.
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kotz admitted that it was a troll just to rile up kurayami
 
Originally Posted by Kurayami circa 2001
Heh heh.
Is that your playing name?
I can be found most nights (even with my card crashing me) on Cheater's Wayside, Cheater's Darkside, or 5150 East.
If you want competition... well. Only the best play there :p
I play under this name. I'm Light D.
I'mgood. I'm really good. I can mine/disk your ass right away from myflag. I can pretty much snipe anything that moves (that's been my favsince I got it :p) But I'm not great. Guys like 5150 or The Sticks aregreat.
I've been playing for 2 years, though... so you want me on your team :p
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awesome
 
i really hope kura doesnt leave the forum over this

making fun of his awkward shit is easily one of the most fun things to do here

whats the point of all this material if i cant use it
 
ya i always trolled kurayami about finding him i was never serious

someone eventually linked me to that quote

the person will remain anonymous

from that quote on the forum i searched backwards and retroactively found posts from 2001 when he was 19

in a few posts from age 19 he mentioned how he didn't have a college degree and wanted to get certified etc he wined about living in a small town and having no car

he also complained about trying to learn windows and linux and learn how to network

reading all his posts from 2001 gives good insight on him
 
heres one from a thread he made "so i hear you linux people are suppose to be nice"

So help me out.
I realize that I could probably find this info elsewhere... But I'd prefer experienced opinions on the matter.

I'm considering installing Linux...
However, I know little about it. I'm installing it for the sake of checking it out/learning about it (no life = very bored.) I seriously doubt that it will dethrone 2K Pro as my OS of choice any time soon...
But I want to give it a shake.

That said:
I'd like some advice as to which (free) distro would be best for a total *nix newbie with my hardware config (funny. I built this computer myself to run well under 9x. ME disgusted me so I switched to 2K. :p I never considered Linux. I've heard that it supports a LOT of hardware. But I've also heard that it doesn't support a lot of things well.):

PIII 1GHz
Asus CUSL2-C motherboard
512MB PC133 (ECC if it matters)
GeForce 2 Ultra (3D Annihilator 2 Ultra flavor)
Maxtor Diamond Max 60GB 7200RPM ATA100 HDD (Partitioned like this: PRI DOS: 3GB NTFS, EXT DOS, drive 1: 48GB NTFS, drive 2: 3GB NTFS. 6GB of unpartitioned space)
3Com NIC (too lazy to check make ATM :p)
SB Live! XGamer.
Standard Zip, Floppy. Pioneer 16x DVD ROM. Plextor 12x10x32x CD-RW.
Microsoft keyboard and Intellimouse Explorer.

That's about all of the pertinent hardware that comes to mind...

I'd like something "newbie friendly" just to muck around with. And that supports all of my hardware well.

Suggestions?

I was also hoping that Linux would offer an option to do something with the unpartitioned space. I know the 2K installer lets you format/partition... If Linux is half as "smart" as they say, then I figured it would have a similar option...
Two of those NTFS partitions are non negotiable. They stay NTFS no matter what. The second 3GB NTFS partition is negotiable... But I'd prefer to use the unpartitioned space if possible...

And of course I'd want to dual boot with 2K without any problems smile

So...
Can you guys point me towards something?


Sorry if this was annoying frown
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Those are the same servers I played on. I never saw him once the entire time I played T1.

and isn't that cute, at one point in his life he considered me "great"

i wonder at what point that admiration turned to raging jealousy
 
Kurayami circa 2001 said:
Operation Flashpoint:
Many, but a few that come to mind would be:

The first spec ops mission on Malden. The one where you have to make your way down the hillside and plant satchel charges by the Soviet tanks guarding the road. It took me an hour the first time. I remember hiding in a bush every time that T-80 drove by inches away, hoping it wouldn't see me. It didn't.

"After Montignac" was another great one. Stuck alone in the woods as NATO pulls out all around you. Soviet patrols everywhere skirmishing with withdrawing NATO forces. The Mi-24 running a patrol above. It took me damned near two hours the first time I played it. The miles you had to cover had to be done so slowly and so cautiously. I thought it was all over about 40 minutes in as a BMP-1 went right by me as I broke out of a forest, but fog had rolled in and he didn't see me. I eventually wound up way off course and stole a civilian car to make it to the extraction point. I managed about a mile in it before a Soviet squad spotted me and shot out the tires. Back to the woods I went.

I'd also have to give a nod to the third party "Retaliation" campaign. It basically lets you play the 1985 campaign from the Soviet perspective. The most intense mission was the mirror of the first 1985 mission. You know, the one where NATO lands on Everon and quickly forces the small Soviet garison to abandon Morton. Even surviving the initial NATO push is a difficult feat, but to make matters worse, before you can evacuate, you have to retrieve documents from the HQ in town. By this point there are almost certainly Abrams rolling through the town square, so all you can do is move quickly and use buildings for cover. You then have to fall back to Montignac... And that has to be a good 4 - 5 miles away through territory that NATO is now in. I did it on foot, and it took forever. Every time a Cobra flew overhead, I dove into the nearest bush and was certain of my impending death.

I could go on and on...
Coming over a hill and seeing a ZSU-23 in the valley below you. I don't know about anybody else, but seeing a Shilka always gave me a chill. Tanks can't hose a hillside with 23mm HE rounds.

BAS' "Insurgency" campaign on Tonal. That's pretty intense from beginning to end, especially in the jungles.

That Command Engine mission where the Soviets force you back to the southern tip of Everon, most likely over the course of four hours.

There are a lot of them.


I'd also have to give Silent Hunter III a nod.

I still remember one mission where I ventured into the Channel and took out a lone tanker. Sortly after, a British DD showed up. And then another. And then another. Eventually there were 7 DDs searching for me with their spotlights and sonar. Depth charges were everywhere. To make matters worse, the water was so shallow that I could barely get deep enough to avoid collisions.

It took me about an hour to shake them, and I took a lot of damage from near misses. Once I finally shook them, I was forced to surface and use the night to conduct repairs. It took a few hours (time accelerated,) but two of the destroyers came back about 5 minutes before they were completed. If my crewmen could have heard me, I rather doubt my language would have improved morale.

I managed to get underway and submerge just as one of the DDs started an attack run.

There was also a good mission where I ran into a huge American convoy off the coast of Ireland... unescorted. Unfortunately, I had no torpedoes left. I tailed it for a while and when no warships were spotted, I opted for an unconventional method of attack. I surfaced, went flank, and opened up on the convoy with my deck gun. I managed to get 7 or 8 of them before British aircraft started appearing overhead. Destroyers eventually showed up, and I managed to take out one more as I egressed and used the convoy ships as shields.

I was surprised it worked.
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Kurayami circa 2001 said:
I tried searching for similar topics, but search is apparently down.

Anyway, I'm looking for a good flight stick. My budget is $60 (preferably less, but if it's truly worth it, I'd have no problem paying that.) I've been reading some reviews, but I'm reluctant to trust a reviewer that might have used a given stick for an hour to play a flight sim for the first time in his life.

So, Ars Il-2/LOMAC/Falcon players -- what would you recommend in that range?
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