BoneBaby

I'll be around, up for whatever tonight...

Maybe we should do something retro next week, like namesake toons or original Isos & a classic TF or Respc trial.

I'm not going to be able to make it tonight.

I'm wondering what all the anticipation was about? Anticlimatic to say the least.

Still, a couple gems in there :P I don't know which is sadder, the fact that you kept notes and posted them, or that I actually took the time to speed read them.

Is there any plan for Isos now that we've come to the end of the current run?

I resolved the issue I was having. It was the most F'd up thing I've ever encountered whicle troubleshooting a PC. After doing everything I could think of, I started looking for logs in the applications / games that were having issues. I finally stumbled across a DX log that showed an issue creating a hook for a direct input device. Anyway, long story short, I replaced my old legacy PS2 style keyboard with a new USB one and the problem is fixed....

That said, I've played the new X-Com for about 8 hours, and while it's entertaining, it is X-Com in name only... Nothing like the original at all. I've got a laundry list of issues I have with it, but it's still fun in it's own right.

I got a rookie with a co-workers exact name today... I wonder how far he's going to make it :P

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Runs good on new vid card. Still hacked off my handle got poached. Will poke around a bit to see what it's like.

Will try it again once I get a new video card installed, suspect my old GTX260 just aint up to the task... :P

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I tried it, or should I say, I tried to try it. After the 15Gb download & setup, everytime I tried to start it, my system would reboot. I updated my video drivers to the latest Nvidia drivers, no change. I re-installed the latest DX from microsoft, no change. I finally switched the options to DX9, and my system didn't reboot... it just froze. I was able to alt-tab out, and kill it. I tried re-installing it, and having it validate etc... It's just not liking my machine for whatever reason. At this point I gave up, and deleted it.

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OMG.... I had no idea, just put BoneBaby in google....sigh.

After the first hit, which is a scrap book retailer, I'm aparently a not to well known rap star...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ59MTYDDjc

I was thinking of trying the free trial... but someone has taken my name already! Really? I thought BoneBaby was rather unique... sigh...

I may or may not try it now.

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Why not bring back an unfinished Iso? Would seem a fitting end after all.

I had some pretty hard feelings at first. It was a shock, and I didn't really see it comming the way it did. I felt the game could go on for quite some time as it seemed to get better over it's run. They kept it up to date with graphics tweeks, and the physX stuff over the years. Sigh...

I had a pretty long post thought out, but in the end... I guess it doesn't matter really.

Like Ham, I was lured here in the begining by some counter strike clan mates. They all dropped off within a year, and I was left to my own devices. I will relate where my namesake came from though, as I find it amusing to this day...

So, me and a couple guys got this idea after seeing the Skulls in Perez Park for the first time. We all made "Bone" caracters, there was Bone Mommy, Bone Stepchild, and me Bonebaby. We'd go around Perez and watch people fiting the skulls mobs. Bone Mommy would yell profanities at the Bone Daddys as they were getting beat up, and me and Bone Stepchild would cry and ask them not to hurt our Daddy :P

Well they all quit playing and drifted on, Bonebaby stayed and played on. I remember tanking for one of the first successful public hami raids, and all the tankers were yelling nerf on regen scrappers! The nerf finally happened, and I didn't really play Bone much afterwards. He really was stupidly overpowered, but I couldn't find it in me to play something that was such a shadow of the former glory. I mean, I don't think I died once until I was in my very late 40s...

Anyway, this ended up a lot longer than I really wanted. Thanks for Isolators Ham, it's probably the only thing that kept me "in the game" for the last year or so. I will miss everybody when the servers go dark.

I'll run in Isos to the end, that's about it I suppose

We had a good run going on my team last night, we were really mowing down the tough mobs in Crotoa missions. I had to bail early though, I got paged in

I'll have more 30/35 damages in the bins tonight, seems there was a run on em :P

Back online after the move, cya on Wed.

I went with a staff/willpower scrapper modeled after the "starwars kid" of youtube fame. Though... I couldn't quite get the body type in the character generator. I guess all superheroes have to have some sort of muscle definition according to the developers

Anyway, should be fun. I don't know if I'll make a few of the starting sessions as I will be moving and starting a new job mid July.

Sorry.... Been kinda taking a break from CoH and only playing on Iso nights for awhile. Because of this I seem to have the time to slum around and try some open source stuff and check out kickstarters etc... I've been playing UFO:AI lately, it's pretty good for an X-Com fix though it has it's share of annoying bugs and crashes.