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That being HALL and OATES. Don't know if you guys catch Daryl Hall's original streamed live from his home rock n roll food show, but it's on Palladia every now and again, or is that AXS? One of those, Live from Daryl's House.
I have to say I'm with Eddie Trunk of VH1 Classic's That Metal Show when he comes down HARD on the RnR Hall of Fame's unscrupulous snubbing of great rock acts who had been neglected with an induction like KISS and RUSH, who Ed seemingly had a hand in a turn around of events. More power to him!!
I hope Rockstar won't forget the travesty of justice that has been plaguing the organization for years.
Anyway, sure you guys check in with Newswire regularly, and what is still quite worrisome is that there's little to no talk outside GTAOnline. This has worried me from the inception of Online gaming, and it's still a factor despite the more widespread networking. We simply don't want to be uber reliant on that ONLINE connection.
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That being HALL and OATES. Don't know if you guys catch Daryl Hall's original streamed live from his home rock n roll food show, but it's on Palladia every now and again, or is that AXS? One of those, Live from Daryl's House.
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Three times in about a week, another 3 days suspension for me at GTAForums, I have to get my side out somewhere, and it seems to me increasingly hostile mentioning these things at the forum itself. Hopefully you TGTAP guys can hear me out on this vent of sorts.
I made a video for YouTube as well, showing my screen view of the warning from one member who presides over Technology chat and dares to challenge my know how and says my comments have no bearing on the posted thread.
Same ole, Same Ole...really.
The thing is, it's easy to say what they want when their moderation and Led By powers allow them to have the final say, and DELETE anything we as members add.
Two guys over there in particular are challenging me with warnings all in the past month, and over all comments from other users in the form of positively "Thumbs Up" tagging a posting, since for me, PM is disabled I suppose with reasons staff have knowledge of and I do not.
They control their forum, Chris and his hired hands control this one, and me and Mike control GTAChronicles. You can see how that pans out, irregardless of how many people take part. The atmosphere in comparison of how people are treated seems vastly different to me, even over the YEARS that have elapsed. I still see the need for forums like this and GTAC.
Whoever opted to hire such *&$%#@heads for their moderating staff is a couple cans short of a six pack.
The posting that offended the Mod Gods was removed, but my video covers all aspects of it in narration, so people can come to their OWN conclusion about whether it's Off Topic, and the sad thing is, it's posted in a section titled boldly.. OFF TOPIC, so why can't we be, ??? For Godsakes?!?! Honestly, there's no reason to have these stress-fests. No reason at all.
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I want another game to feature the best 80s cars as LA Rush did for my own 82 Cutlass Supreme Oldsmobile, it provided one of my favorite cars I ever owned, to race with! SO FUN, SO NICE!
It looked stellar too. You wouldn't get that from GTA though, it will always be unlicensed except for the music.
Hey, Spartan, wanna borrow my Hotknife?? hahaha
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As I've noted with just about 10 years spent online with GTAForums, controversy and animosity always follows me in the last half of those years as the staff running things has really not changed, so they're warning me, deleting postings and basically threatening me of a permanent ban that would not be reversed, however, avoiding such a fate seems only contingent on not posting anything, because, Honest to God, I don't know what sets these guys off.
They've accused me of accusing them of phantom persecution, but to me it's so obvious, you'd have to be blind not to see it.
I'll again screen cap the warning I got, however, to compare it to the posting becomes impossible because they've binned it, in other words, their moderation powers enable them to cover up the evidence that proves my case!
Complete bullcrap if there ever was, but to start a war or post angry rants here is not my real intent, and posting here in TECH is because that's where most of the Mods get uptight.
The topic I got a temp ban... THIS WEEK... Just last night in fact, ...
http://gtaforums.com/topic/694620-which-windows-should-i-update/
The OP actually gave a thumbs up on my response before it became non-existent, so glad at least it was helpful as intended for him!!
Now what exactly happened to cause a ban, beats me, but the warning from member/mod Sivispacem accuses me of posting something that doesn't make sense and may have no bearing on the above. It actually covered two items of current discussion from my point of view.
This is ALL it was intended to do, first, get to the point about how Andrew who last posted claimed an AMD64 x2 dual core CPU cannot be used to game with, completely WRONG answer. The only thing pitted against Intel Duel Core, going back to Pentium D was AMD's 64 bit line processors, in it's earliest days it whooped Intel's arse!! This is fact based on tech magazine reviews, look it up if you want to call me out on such things. Now, Intel came back and stayed there with their ever improving Core2 line, and now Nehalem as we've mentioned, but AMD64 covered Turion as well as a return to Athlon, and Phenom, where Phenom actually was the stronger contender.
The same can be said of Turion, a Celeron type budgetary processor, but as far as my use of Turion, I don't see a performance hit happening, but of course, Intel Core2 finally overtakes AMD since the Duel Core or Core Duo Centrino introduction for their mobile CPU lines.
The other point the OP asked was which OS to use, for gaming preferred, but you're likely to use your laptop for more then just that! On a budget, anytime, anywhere. TWO CORES are better then ONE.
I basically got the warning and temp ban based on covering a finding of mine I wanted to post in a Windows topic, so I included mention of how to remove the End Of Service for XP OS, it's found in the Windows System folder once it downloads with your annual updates, and keep in mind, you MUST download standard updates before they end, and get your XP up to date protection, etc.
Remove that EOS message as you'll spot it within the items of the folder, and if prompted to download it, obviously, decline the offer, it's an annoying middle of the screen pop up that you JUST don't need.
Including that as a helpful note got me a week long ban, again, GTAForums threatening me and could threaten anyone for doing things their way,
Bottom line is probably watch how and where you post, and be concise to the reply more for the OP then other posters in the thread. It's safest proceeding at GTAF if you follow that guideline when you post. They're pretty anal about the Tech chat, it's more of a help section then really discussing tech for fun.
SO GLAD Chris is allowing us leniency here, since it's sorely needed!!
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Things settled down before they blew up at GTAForums, we good...for the moment. Lots of talk about the finale this evening, I'd like to hear your thoughts though.
It seems I'd forgotten or missed about 9 episodes starting out Season 4, but I caught up during the marathon starting last night, and damn, I sure am tired! haha
The series will spin off according to a report online and announcement AMC has made, however, won't involve WD characters, so the big question is would having two series this intensely created (with painstaking detail) be a demand on the production staff that might effect overall quality?
Would this have relation to the graphic novels? I don't know anything yet, but some fans may take interest, but I doubt all will.
Sorry to add another post on the same thread, but enough time elapsed since the earlier one, now the Season has concluded. Did this evening's episode seems short?
In case you missed it, the flashback prison sequences WERE filmed last! I assumed they'd already been shot and never used in original editing.
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Lets get right to the meat and potatoes in this thread, with MS support ending in days, XP will be wholly updated by third party companies, if used ONLINE, or with any new hardware or software you're bound to have issues. For established software and hardware basis, I believe, like Windows 9x, there will be uses still available for decades to come, though increasingly archaic I'm sure!
Vintage game software, MAME emulation for example, and old titles will still need things like MS DOS and Windows 95 and 98 to run, if not in Emulation mode aka Compatibility mode of Windows itself.
How do you see yourself comping with the newly released from corporate ownership XP?
I just mentioned playing around with miniXP booting from a live source, no power, no more OS, but it's like Damn Tiny Linux as well! To have a gluten free OS you can't rely on the modern coded Operating Systems, they take up nearly 20GB of your HDD space! I should know, I ran into this exact issue!!
http://www.technobuffalo.com/2012/02/20/microsoft-extends-support-for-windows-xp-and-vista/
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ADD: Here's a Google link with various info on the disc I refer to, and associated topics, I am still yet to get a booting USB dongle going, but CD Recording almost seems like a dead art these days, but I found a deal on unused media and this disc is by far one of the most useful things you can burn to a CD and not need a DVD burner
[My Broadwell Intel search was for what might come out in that regard, in the final months of this year]
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Been playing with my Hiren emergency utility ISO to CD burn all of yesterday, it offers mainly a boot to MS DOS and mini XP, which we know is hot topic again because it's reached the end of support life cycle, but small OS and need for such things will continue to be a real factor, as is some sort of OS for older machines, and in business the need for OS or XP in this case, prompted Microsoft to work on some Industry solution to perhaps even expand XP support for some companies' licensing. I don't think a clear agenda for this has been provided yet... but let's hear your thoughts on micro OS use, and running on older gear?
Has anyone figured out how to get an audio driver working for miniXP, it keeps it's virtual space lean and mean by providing only minimal drivers. My tests included running Portable apps for Photoshop and VideoLAN aka VLC player. There's also Wimpy FLV and SoThink Player that you can just add to any file or desktop and start using. I tried to use XnView but it was missing a file I assume might be part of the full Windows install DLL library (Dynamic Link Library are common 'go to' subroutine programming files)
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Red Dead Red is a tour de force in gaming, no one has made a better Western, and still, even at this late date, despite SLOW progress from Rockstar, no other games have the same anticipatory level. I think this is safe to say anywhere in the World.
You suggest Rockstar will stop support for online gaming of any past title, This is new ground for them, keep this in mind, it's fact. Even adding MP elements to Uncharted from respected Naughty Dog hit snags, and again, new ground, how can you pull off untried concepts effectively?
The other factor in these matters is seeing how history shows the down side, namely APB from former GTA creator David Jones. I really hope there's still some hope left in regard to salvation for the formats and PC gaming as well.
I think with attention spans being ever shorter, and people forgetting the time it took to get this far, they expect things working out of the box, due to any delay that might have happened, or perceived, but I just think quality development time is that much longer, and may continue to be for the rest of the duration, since the quality demands will keep going up with spec
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Let's revive some discussion, fellas.... Season finale is upcoming, and there promises to be a lot of action! I have back archive On Demand with my cable service, but so far, seen all the Walking and Talking Dead, and no other series grabs my attention the same way, it really turned out to live up to any hype four years ago.
Here's my post at GTAForums, in case Otter or someone on staff figures they MUST edit or delete it. It's driving me nuts at this point, but it's how the bans come about, butting heads with buttheads! hahaha
Anywho, just for the record, Unedited at the moment;
The preview of next weeks episode was discussed on Talking Dead, Chris Hardwick said it's the only portion they could select that didn't give too much away, there's a lot to digest in the finale, so to speak, bad pun or play on words?!? hahaha
RE question from the previous page; I saw some of the black and white rebroadcast, but as I mentioned in the topic about black and white, I've never liked it, or mono audio. I am a major proponent of a lifelike experience, but I think Sense-O-rama tricks and vibrating seating is a bit too much for home or theatrical cinema.
I started in Black and White photography in the late 80s, as color is more complex, and I was taking Commercial Art, but I just have a real problem with anything shot in black and white. When you KNOW it was in color originally, seems even worse! I can see it completely from an artistic standpoint, and even for financial reasons. IIRC, Gilligan's Isle starting in 1964 had to use B & W for the budget,
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I've been off RDR MP mostly due to getting all the way level upped, and many friends in Online left it appears. It was fun seeing them all the time, day after day, joining familiar posses, as it stands, and some of the fun we had showed up on YouTube. Anyway, I still plan to go back, regardless of how bad or boring it might be deemed, after all, if you want true MP poker, only recourse is still Red Dead Red
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Since I'd been back at GTAForums, I tried engaging discussion on the Off Topic section, mainly the Walking Dead topic, and express just my thoughts about it, but Otter, a moderator or Led By there, who often clashed with me in the past, he opted to just delete every reply I posted while he was on, posting Anonymously by the way, but his name showed up in posted replies. He even deleted a harmless posted thread about Farrah Abraham and MTV's Sixteen and Pregnant. Like that doesn't fit the topic section, even though it garnered reply as well.
You just can't win. My typed posting completely lost, even though I edited it several times beforehand, I found this article to back up some of what I was expressing,
You can read down the page, the reference Hershal makes about the dead risen, yet not seen in this case as an act of God, or the coming of Christ and Salvation.
We got into a semi-argument about the reference of Zombie in the actual show, my posted and deleted comment regarded why this might be the case, I still stick by my assumptions but was called out by supposed comments by series creator based more of the graphic novels, which I've not seen or read, so I didn't have a refence there, so sue me, really. An OK discussion point as any if you ask me, supposedly I'm outta line though?!?
Here's something of a spoiler to get you amped just the same...
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Seems Rockstar's neglecting RDR Online multiplayer from what I'd been reading, sounds like a cesspool of cheaters taking over, and trouble even getting into sessions. HELL in MP basically, I hope this is not something still effecting the games.
Haven't used game editing, or even been on my consoles in over a month, but I would email Rockstar via their support address, don't use Mouthoff, and have some faith, they should still help all users when they get to your query
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We also lost comedian David Brenner, I didn't realize he was still performing, as of late last year!?!
They've been playing a lot of Philip Seymour Hoffman films on cable lately, I was really surprised to see him appear in the film When a Man Loves A Woman with Meg Ryan and Andy Garcia. I think the movie title kept me away from it, but I found it highly emotional actually, good film.
I was using Wiki as a movie index the past month or so and found lacking in this web posting, the Skipper Bob Hale Jr is also deceased.
Sad when you think of all the talent now gone from our World...
http://wonderfulwonderblog.blogspot.com/2014_01_01_archive.html
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Local news is saying we should be celebrating 25 years of the WWW, The REAL Internet dates back to the 1960s used in Government, but along with Windows, Apple's advances in Telecommunication circa 1984, Mosiac, and other little Bits and Bytes... You could say the Internet as we use and know it spawns from WWW's earliest days in the Inter-connected computer terminals becoming a World Wide connection Network at the glorious speeds of 56K!
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Let's try this ever popular favorite from GTAForums again... It's gotten lost in the pages past, so I prefer to reboot it fresh, if you guys can be enticed to take advantage when you're here, and bored, perhaps....
Love Music? Prove it and join in the fun of this thread idea.
Try and be open minded as possible, and expound on your reasoning
Ratings are 0-1 to 10 as best quality, any contributing musical factors and if you prefer, as I do, go with inbetween numbers at the half way point (4.5 or 6.5 out of 10, for example)
To start with, The Three Dog Night...
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Ok, this is really titled to mesh both Walking and Talking Dead AMC shows into one thread
Missed the first Mid Season return, and at this point, about to come to another finale....so....
Wanna hear from YOU guys about how you think the series is going thus far?
During the groups extended stay at the farm, people complained there wasn't enough action, Over the course of the move to the prison....
During that Mid-Season break, the Wiki reads several months are compressed into that gap, there's supposed to be a period of peace and tranquility for the people living in confined safety that the prison afforded, then a normal flu knocks people off. I missed all this, sounds like a helluva lot to get into just one episode, I feel I musta missed more then one, don't know how though.
http://www.amctv.com/shows/the-walking-dead/episodes/season-4/30-days-without-an-accident
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She was mentioned during the Oscars tribute, but I honestly don't remember Ed Lauter mentioned, travesty. Didn't they neglect honoring Farrah Fawcett when she passed as well? I think it was a timing thing perhaps, in that case, but they made up for it later, or after the fact, when it resulted in something of a backlash.
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I'm going to add addendum here, I read there's some SERIOUS SERIOUS problems with Red Dead Redemption Online modes, both consoles effected. I've not looked into it personally, but it sounds like, from the fan response, that Rockstar have been neglecting an effected server and overrun cheating within the Online World there to assumedly focus their attention on GTAOnline. It's been awhile since upgrades were started and underway for GTAO, but even weeks if not months ago, I posted to Newswire that Rockstar not neglect the need to keep all Online versions of their games supported, or you wind up with a loss of investment like APB, David Jones hope for a GTA Online before Rockstar's GTAO....yet, it just failed repeatedly. Sad, sad thing to see and have to report, a future so far, uncertain.
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Lately Nugent's been making headlines with some inflammatory statements about Barack Obama and others who he targets in his soapbox wherever it maybe, Twitter and the like, came on CNN's Out Front to talk about his stance further, actually on as I submit this, to apologize for the words, and his anger on occasion has come to expletives aplenty.
He's still railing against what he thinks destroys America in the current trend of things, or media or people in charge's abuses of power. Aaron Burnett he's committing to online for things he might do different, we'll see. I wonder, he's the Nugent, so....
Can he back away from some of the mud-slinging, he's his enigmatic character is still very electric, and amusing, "on CNN"! As he says with ferver. Normally I wouldn't have cable to enjoy segments like this, but Nugent is a genuine character, and more then someone pining for a better United States in which he lives, and we, I do, as well, he's a World force in music, and he just HAD to respond to the idiot statements in the past week calling him a "has been". Before this interview, I was driven to seek out CNN's segment on YouTube and leave a comment about that "Has been" statement as well, and how Ted's worship of roots rock is testament that he is not a racist.
Something he cleared up on Out Front, but there was also some mis-understandings I believe didn't have time to be resolved, but in some ways, people in politics or media as a career might equate Ted Nugent's importance to that of Donald Trump being involved in politics, but there's some truth that they want a better America.
One thing's true, the USA and World events are still so very precarious and at odds, things we hoped could be resolved upon elections and re-elections.
Things that lack humor, but Grand Theft Auto is sure to pick up on some if not most of these things for further continuing satire.
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A landmark celebrity comic talent legend of modern comedy, his works numerous and all very funny, has passed away.
Yet again, I think, far too soon, but he did give us a respectible body of work, so that's there to enjoy for countless years to come.
RIP
http://www.today.com/entertainment/harold-ramis-ghostbusters-star-dead-69-2D12156583
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Chris, ban this Spambot, M'kay, buddy??
As far as fan art, contributions, I'm actually rather sick of the fan's focus on Trevor, of all the characters, the most OUT THERE persona of current GTA protags, it's understandable to SOME degree about his popularity, but I just think it's too heavily focused on him. I prefer balance in a game that offers more then one protagonist for the first time
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Hi again, partners in Cyber GTA crime....
I'd like to hear from fellow online fanatics, how have the past few months been with regard to your experience with GTA's changes upon cheaters handing out free cash bags unsolicited, and many on Rockstars site cried out for a lenient policing hand to stand in and deal with accessive cheating.
I've been paying for gaming online yet, also paying for cable TV now, been enjoying that after more then 5 years, and closer to 10 without any premium TV access (other then family)
It's taken me on hiatus from gaming, but not before I indulged some of the windfall within XB Live. In PSN I was able to maintain my own cash flow without seeing the out of hand monetary cheating that seems to afflict both console versions.
I heard from one GTAC friend so far, about his experience he believe Rockstar have stepped in and made some corrective changes. I'll be anxious to see what this means for my own gaming account, I bought some upgrades, tucked them away in my GTAO garage and left the game for an entire month! Don't know what will come of corrective changes with my gaming so far, but that's what I'd like to field responses from in this topic....
HBO's Game Of Thrones
in Music, Film, TV & Sports
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Seems according to the stats of Xfinity's Watchathon that completed the week prior, not much to anyone's surprise, Walking Dead and Game of Thrones seem to have garnered the most viewers.
Now, outside of Xfinity On Demand from Comcast, can't say. And they do like to blow their own horn, as can be assumed with every company, but I believe it's fair to say.
Had there been a topic about the show prior? If not....here we go.