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[Aqizzar]

I stay up for two days then sleep for one, it's inconvenient for normal days but otherwise you're getting more hours for your buck.

Pardon me whilst I laugh with painful experience.  It don't work that way.  You wind up so knackered after a normal day's length anyway that the extra day you spend awake accomplishes nothing.

Needless to say, I'm doing exactly that today; staying awake all day, after waking up at 8PM yesterday, so I can wake up at a relatively normal time tomorrow to do normal stuff during daylight hours.  Don't know if it'll work.

[Itnetlolor]

:In a dancing mood: (Not Orz *dancing*)

I've been looking around for ages, and found a solution to an age-old problem: How to play Age of Empires and other forced fullscreen games in a window. So that means I (as well as anyone else) can livestream AOE for once, along with other games with no apparent workaround to window it. It's essentially a DirectX emulator so you can window old DirectX games ala DOSBox style. Kinda similar to the Chaos Launcher for launching Starcraft in a window.

Here it is, I tested it, it works: D3DWindower
Readme and other parts are in supposedly Japanese, but it's very straightforward. Works for most-all D3D and DirectX codecs. And the best part: it's freeware.

Going to play some AOE2 windowed now. ^_^

I'm going to have to introduce this to my brothers next week during our game-a-thon.

EDIT:
Typed while playing El Cid campaign. No screw ups, few graphical glitches (finding workaround in-program), and it runs smoothly. Okay, so it's just a glitchy mouse appearance and I can see a slight grid on the battlefield, but nonetheless, no color oddities, no real issues regarding mouse offsetting. Simply, I don't have to worry too much about the game freaking out on ALT+TAB switching.

EDIT EDIT:
Found more similar windowers: http://keeper.lubie.org/html/dk1_tools_windower.php

[Calhoun]

Forced Full-screen? I can think of, perhaps 2 games which didn't have an config file parameter, or even a command-line switch for windowed mode.

Age of Empires 2, that game taught me so much.

[Realmfighter]

VIOLIN. WHY ARE YOU SO SAD?

[zchris13]

Somebody was talking about the A-10 in this thread a couple of pages back, and they mentioned that it was their favorite fighter.  I was under the impression that it was an attack aircraft, flying close air support and ground attack roles.  I don't even know if it has even scored an air to air kill (I checked: 2 helicopters in Iraq).  Not trying to start a fight or put you down man, but the A-10 is my favorite close air support aircraft.

And was I dreaming or did the A-10 occasionally fly Wild Weasel missions too?

[smigenboger]

Hurray for work, which means money, which means brakes! Hurray for having car brakes!
And acai juice. I loves me some acai juice.

[Realmfighter]

Oh god i love my job.

You wouldn't imagine running up and down stairs, selling stuff to extremely drunk people would be fun, but it totally is.

I got offered a joint at the Bon Jovi concert, and four drunk guys tipped/gave me over 20 bucks.

[ein]

I get to cut things up with a chainsword.

[Realmfighter]

Space Marine?

[dragnar]

I get to cut things up with a chainsword.

Go get those zenos/heretics mighty servant of the emperor!

ninja'd...

[ein]

Heh.
No, trimming foliage.
It's technically a hedge trimmer, but it can be held easily in one hand and looks like a chainsword.

[Realmfighter]

Yell "FOR THE EMPERAAHH" whenever you use it.

For the Shits and Giggles.

[Solifuge]

Been playing my Recorder, after about 2 decades of not touching the thing. Been learning how to do harmonics and such. Someone suggested I play Ocarina of Time songs. I decided to play the Windmill/Storm Song. Lo and behold, not 5 minutes later, my city goes from clear skies to crazy winds, a major thunderstorm, flash flood warnings, and a possible tornado.

Apparently my recorder is magical.

[Calhoun]

Somebody was talking about the A-10 in this thread a couple of pages back, and they mentioned that it was their favorite fighter.  I was under the impression that it was an attack aircraft, flying close air support and ground attack roles.  I don't even know if it has even scored an air to air kill (I checked: 2 helicopters in Iraq).  Not trying to start a fight or put you down man, but the A-10 is my favorite close air support aircraft.

And was I dreaming or did the A-10 occasionally fly Wild Weasel missions too?

Nah, You are right, I didn't use the proper term. Also, as far as I know, they don't use A-10s for Wild Weasel missions.

[smigenboger]

Been playing my Recorder, after about 2 decades of not touching the thing. Been learning how to do harmonics and such. Someone suggested I play Ocarina of Time songs. I decided to play the Windmill/Storm Song. Lo and behold, not 5 minutes later, my city goes from clear skies to crazy winds, a major thunderstorm, flash flood warnings, and a possible tornado.

Apparently my recorder is magical.

But does it play the Jazz?