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Re: General smack talk
« Reply #15 on: December 01, 2011, 12:51:24 PM »
's what I said, too, but it's the only way to get an update on some people...

it would be cool to read actually interesting stuff on there instead of "I fed my hamster! (13 likes)"
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Re: General smack talk
« Reply #16 on: December 01, 2011, 01:20:33 PM »
Heh - I know what you mean.  I have Facebook.  Richard J Trowbridge, Penrith, Cumbria.  Add me, cause there are a lot of Jonas Nicholaisen's on the FB.

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Re: General smack talk
« Reply #17 on: December 01, 2011, 01:35:08 PM »
Yeah, you wouldn't believe it - I think the name is pretty rare even in Denmark, but apparently they all call their kids Jonas. Stupid. I'm on as Jacques Natla from Finland, actually.
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Re: General smack talk
« Reply #18 on: December 01, 2011, 01:42:08 PM »
Er  - which is your real name, and aren't you in Germany?  I typed in "Jonas Nicholaisen", and there were a bunch of them, like atleast ten or something.  Surprisingly enough there are at least three Richard Trowbridge's on there also.  One of which I 'befriended' just because I could.

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Re: General smack talk
« Reply #19 on: December 01, 2011, 01:51:40 PM »
Haha :)

Nicolaisen is my real name, and yeah, I live in Germany but the name is Danish. I picked Koskenkorva because of the vodka. My brother is on as Mopsi Dick, my dad apparently is from Ducktown, Tennessee.

I have no interest in putting all my life on fb like many others do, I only joined to keep tabs on my family (which mostly failed). I do think most of fb is spam, actually - meaningless drivel.
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Re: General smack talk
« Reply #20 on: December 13, 2011, 04:47:24 AM »
Windows users; how do you keep your system malware free? I have to reinstall for the second time within 6 months because I was hit by a worm (Ukash). It's easy to zero the partition and reinstall, but I'd like to save the effort in the future. I am already using the auto-update stuff, the firewall AND a cloud-based antivirus app and use an auto-updated Firefox for browsing. I do not use any filesharing or cracking related shit. And this stuff STILL gets through.

I must have gotten this latest pest by web browsing (drive-by infection), since this XP system is only ever used for gaming and the occasional web surfing. And I'm tempted to restrict that to "DVD-installed games only".

Grrr.
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Re: General smack talk
« Reply #21 on: December 13, 2011, 05:55:21 AM »
Firefox with adblock plus, automatic updates, firewall, Microsoft Security Essentials, and a whole heap of not installing crap freeware.  I'm on Windows 7 though so I'd guess the additional security and protection in that OS is also helping.
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Re: General smack talk
« Reply #22 on: December 13, 2011, 06:56:38 AM »
Yeah, 7 helps.  I'd recommend BitDefender as well - never had anything get through it.

Be careful of animated gifs, and don't install free stuff without virus checking it - I know that sounds obvious, but I remember when everyone was telling me to check out that DM game we took a few ideas from (can't remember the name) and when I checked it it turned out to have a whole suite of adware bundled inside... no thanks.

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Re: General smack talk
« Reply #23 on: December 13, 2011, 12:43:08 PM »
What MH said.  Microsoft Security Essentials and updates.  I'm using Chrome though.  Which is great!  When it's not occasionally freezing. Restarting Chrome fixes that though.  But yeah - Firefox at work always seemed fine.  I just prefer the chrome UI.

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Re: General smack talk
« Reply #24 on: December 13, 2011, 07:09:54 PM »
Using Windows7 with one 'Admin' account which I rarely use, and one regular account with UAC set to highest security level.
This means every time you install something, or move files in system directories, UAC will lock up your system and ask for your Admin password.
A lot of people find that annoying and disable it, but that's really the single biggest security risk you can take.
If you use other OS such as OSX or Linux this is the usual way of doing things.

I also run startup monitor.
http://www.mlin.net/StartupMonitor.shtml

I browse using Chrome and Adblock, and I use MS security essentials which meshes nicely and is unobtrusive.
I do not use MSN, it attracts all kinds of crap, you can use an alternative such as Pidgin if you want to avoid using it.
I also remove useless software from time to time, rather than letting it bloat up.

I'm pretty happy with Win7, way more secure than XP, in my experience.

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Re: General smack talk
« Reply #25 on: December 13, 2011, 07:31:24 PM »
UAC is really no worse than sudo when you think about it; serves the exact same purpose in more or less the exact same way.
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Re: General smack talk
« Reply #26 on: December 13, 2011, 09:25:57 PM »
Thanks for the pointers, I'm pretty inexperienced with Windows when it comes down to it - have been using Linux for any serious work for over 10 years. I just don't know what half of the running Win XP processes are doing, while I have a very good idea about the same things on any Linux system :-)

Yeah, sudo is very common in Linux as are restricted user accounts obviously.

I didn't even know about Microsoft Security Essentials, for instance. Will install that next time.

The upside of the downtime was that I got STALKER running under Wine like a champ. Runs better than under Windows. That means my need for Windows is once again reduced to Crysis level editing.
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Re: General smack talk
« Reply #27 on: December 30, 2011, 03:01:36 PM »

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Re: General smack talk
« Reply #28 on: December 30, 2011, 03:07:47 PM »
Something I reminded myself about whilst writing the readme for the winter 2011 demo -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FpigqfcvlM

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Re: General smack talk
« Reply #29 on: January 09, 2012, 11:29:24 AM »
good video. I guess you should basically use common sense when making games.

I just saw this image at rockpapershotgun;



Why is the typical video game character today looking like a school dropout who joined the army because it was the easy thing to do?

I mean, look at his face. Look at his hair. Look at his half-naked caveman body. Imagine someone like this in real life, without the armour. Umm, yeah. This guy is cliche all over.

Here are some I like better.



Major Degtyarev from Call of Pripyat.



Bill from L4D.



Sarah Kerrigan from Starcraft 2.



Mr. Freeman.



Young Lara.



Qarbani Singh from Far Cry 2.

Character design is hard, it seems.
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