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The Layonara Community => Introduce Yourself => Topic started by: Eight-Bit on March 17, 2007, 02:26:55 pm

Title: Yo.
Post by: Eight-Bit on March 17, 2007, 02:26:55 pm
Que pasa mi amigos?

My name is Mike Powers. Mugshot to follow, I can't find one and jacking one from a friend's myspace is proving difficult. The link below has me running at a pumpkin and smashing it with a 15 pound wooden hammer a buddy of mine made.

YouTube - Smash Club (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET7K-eUCcmw)


Yea, we're all pretty immature.

I'll update this as I feel neccessary.. but here's the basic jist of me.

I play the guitar. I work a mind-numbing job. I'm a computer science major. I drive a Jeep that I named Bixbee, because she is my sweet southern belle. I've played a GMed off and on here for years now. Online RPGs are my least favorite form of videogame, Layonara just as some kind of right thing going on and it keeps me here.

I like action. I'm fickle and bored easily, as a friend here once told me.

Aside from Layonara the only other games I really play right now are Wolfenstien Enemy Territory and the odd Total Annihilation game.

I live in a wee town named Granby, located in a valley that fills with snow every year, and quickly melts causing us all to live on boats for a few weeks. It's fun. It's like Water World without Kevin Cosner's terrible acting ruining the whole deal.
Title: Re: Yo.
Post by: Witch Hunter on March 17, 2007, 02:53:35 pm
It's good to know Layo gamemasters smash things in their free time, really.


:P cheers.
Title: Re: Yo.
Post by: LynnJuniper on March 17, 2007, 03:09:51 pm
Where are you getting all that stuff?
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Post by: feniox on March 17, 2007, 05:42:32 pm
I like the fact that you chose Black Label Society as the back track for your wanton act of vandalism :D
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Post by: hawklen on March 17, 2007, 06:01:47 pm
Omg, its gallagher!

Nice video, wished me and my friends recorded us smashing up stuff too.
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Post by: Eight-Bit on March 17, 2007, 09:15:28 pm
Quote from: LynnJuniper
Where are you getting all that stuff?


We have our sources.
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Post by: lunchboxkilla on March 18, 2007, 03:17:11 am
Smash things? Well he's close to Huntington.. so yeah smash things is fitting :D
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Post by: Eight-Bit on March 20, 2007, 10:25:52 am
Who is Huntington and do they have city walls?
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Post by: Marswipp on March 20, 2007, 06:48:34 pm
Were the electronics dead or dying before the breaking?
Title: Re: Yo.
Post by: Eight-Bit on March 21, 2007, 01:38:12 am
Quote from: Marswipp
Were the electronics dead or dying before the breaking?


I can tell you that they were unused, mostly trash, and stuff we found. We assumed they were broken under the circumstances that we came across them.

And if they weren't broken then...
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Post by: Marswipp on March 21, 2007, 12:35:51 pm
Breaking someone else's trash for entertainment and/or stress relief. That does not sound like a bad idea.
Title: Re: Yo.
Post by: Eight-Bit on April 21, 2007, 02:44:36 am
Toodles, everyone.
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Post by: osxmallard on April 22, 2007, 09:20:51 pm
Toodles?  You going somewhere?  =)
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Post by: Eight-Bit on May 10, 2007, 07:41:13 pm
Quote from: osxmallard
Toodles?  You going somewhere?  =)


Quite possibly!
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Post by: hawklen on May 10, 2007, 08:36:22 pm
Quote from: Eight-Bit
Quite possibly!

Does it involve a white jacket that buckles up from the back, and a nice padded room?

*grins and winks*
Title: Re: Yo.
Post by: Eight-Bit on May 11, 2007, 11:19:39 am
Quote from: hawklen
Does it involve a white jacket that buckles up from the back, and a nice padded room?

*grins and winks*


You killed my horse.

Prepare to die!
Title: Re: Yo.
Post by: hawklen on May 11, 2007, 11:53:26 am
You killed my inner child!
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Post by: lolli_gagged on May 12, 2007, 12:52:08 am
Your both killing me!!
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Post by: hawklen on May 12, 2007, 12:56:29 am
*shakes a fist* I shall kill you with tiny schools of fish!
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Post by: Eight-Bit on June 12, 2007, 07:39:40 am
Quote from: hawklen
*shakes a fist* I shall kill you with tiny schools of fish!


Fish? That's your ace in the hole?


Hah, I laugh at you.

I laugh real hard.

And then I cough.

So hah.
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Post by: hawklen on June 12, 2007, 11:12:42 am
These fish are killers! They bury them selves in your skin, tapping into your nerves they sing backstreet boy and N'Sync songs to you till you go mad and become a cross dressing britanny spears.
Title: Re: Yo.
Post by: Eight-Bit on July 24, 2007, 12:48:43 am
I moved to the city. People are loud, strange, and fight outside in a parking lot pretty often.

I wanted to install NWN and smear a dungeon or something but I can't find my CD key.

I got a new computer for when Fallout 3 comes out. Anyone else excited?

Yea.

So whatever. If I find a CD Key, I will probably make a come back because this always happens and to be quite frank, I'm a little nuts. A lot of nuts. Like chashews and walnuts and stuff.

I am home a lot more often. (People usually want to come here. It's wicked nice for that whole "What place are we going to drink be loud at now?" problem.)

Yea.
Title: Re: Yo.
Post by: Eight-Bit on July 24, 2007, 01:18:52 am
Whoops. Apparantly I left it before the move, threw it out, or something. The CD keys of NWN have cost me a lot of money over the years. It's not like I ever did the smart thing and type the Key into Word document.

I refuse. REFUSE to buy another copy of NWN.
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Post by: miltonyorkcastle on July 24, 2007, 01:34:47 am
*snickers*
Title: Re: Yo.
Post by: Eight-Bit on July 28, 2007, 03:16:16 am
A friend gave me his CD Key. I will quite possibly make a small come back.
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Post by: Eight-Bit on July 28, 2007, 03:38:49 am
And it works. Just waiting on the all-in-one hak. It's downloading pretty fast for 900 and something megs. Kudos to Leanthar for awesome servers.

Edit - I found my old install of NWN on the hard drive from my old computer. I copied the CD Keys directly from the nwncdkey.ini file. It accepted them and installed. Now, when I try and start NWN, it tells me to enter the CD Keys and it tells me they are invalid key entries. I copied and pasted them, I ran it windowed and typed them, and now I am giving up. It was a fun idea, but not worth all of this effort.
Title: Re: Yo.
Post by: Eight-Bit on August 23, 2007, 09:28:19 am
So, yea. I uh, found that I can just copy it over from my old hard drive.

Kinda worked easier than I thought. Yea.
Title: Re: Yo.
Post by: Tanman on August 23, 2007, 05:56:29 pm
Yay, 8bit is back!
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Post by: Eight-Bit on August 26, 2007, 01:38:25 pm
Three days running now. This place sure has changed.
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Post by: Tanman on August 26, 2007, 05:59:30 pm
In what way? *shifty*
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Post by: Eight-Bit on August 26, 2007, 11:54:06 pm
Quote from: Tanman
In what way? *shifty*


When you played Layonara a few months ago you had to ignore 90% of the server population to get in some deep RP with a few people.

Now seeing another person or RPing with someone is rare, at least for me. Granted I play at a strange time, it is just depressing to see the difference.
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Post by: Fatherchaos on August 27, 2007, 12:36:19 pm
Then I dare say Key and Dur'Thak should strike up a rousing conversation of insults! :)
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Post by: Eight-Bit on August 27, 2007, 12:43:45 pm
Quote from: Fatherchaos
Then I dare say Key and Dur'Thak should strike up a rousing conversation of insults! :)


Agreed. I do believe that there is a lot of trouble two Tieflings could cause for eachother.
Title: Re: Yo.
Post by: Fatherchaos on August 27, 2007, 09:07:00 pm
. . . and those within a 10KM radius :)
Title: Re: Yo.
Post by: Eight-Bit on October 08, 2007, 03:52:53 am
So, yea, I am trying to get back again.

I have a new computer, built by your's truly, that does not like NWN in the least.

I'm running XP pro.

I'm not asking for technical support, I think I have it. I'll probably ask later when this doesn't work.

Hallo.
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Post by: Eight-Bit on October 13, 2007, 03:22:50 pm
I cannot get NWN to work. I believe it is the Quad Core.

However, the process does run which is confusing. I even gave NWN a processor affinity and still no dice.

Anyone have a similar problem and a solution?
Title: Re: Yo.
Post by: the.fall.within on October 13, 2007, 06:26:58 pm
Hi there!

Okay I tried to look on bioware, and here is the link of topics

Neverwinter Nights: (http://nwn.bioware.com/forums/search_results.html?srchString=quad+core&searchIn=posts&srchType=textonly&postType=recent)

Do you also have a geforce 8800 or something? Seems people have problems with it.

Anyways hope this can be of use! Im new and I'd like to see you in game. :)
Title: Re: Yo.
Post by: Eight-Bit on October 14, 2007, 11:45:01 am
I do, actually. I tried taking one out, and seeing if it was two video cards that as causing NWN to protest, but alas it was not.

Thanks for the link! You have a lot better luck with bioware's site than I do.
Title: Re: Yo.
Post by: Falonthas on October 15, 2007, 10:33:46 am
so have you found out what it is yet?
Title: Re: Yo.
Post by: Eight-Bit on October 15, 2007, 12:02:51 pm
Quote from: Falonthas
so have you found out what it is yet?


A combination of the two 8800s and the Quad Core not liking NWN at all. I couldn't find a fix the CPU, but I got one for the 8800s.

It's six against one here. I'll be back when the new Layonara is released.
Title: Re: Yo.
Post by: Fatherchaos on October 20, 2007, 04:26:02 pm
Eight Bit, out of curiosity - is the nwn application running but the screen appears "black" ?

If that is the case, it is in fact caused by the newer 100.xx series of drivers from Nvidia. If you get lucky - it is possible to click on the "load game" button and the screen will come to life. So for me everytime I launch NWN it's a crapshoot to see the screen as I have to maneuver around and find the right thing to click. If by chance I click the wrong menu, and hear the "click" sound, but noting appears, I hit ESC a few times to back out of what ever menu I loaded and try again.

I really should have taken teh blindfighting feat.
Title: Re: Yo.
Post by: Eight-Bit on October 22, 2007, 12:09:00 am
The process runs, but it doesn't drain my CPU at all. It will flicker for a second every few seconds, but it doesn't do anything else.

The process runs, it takes a little bit of juice every so often, but otherwise it is as if I was not running NWN at all.

Harsh.
Title: Re: Yo.
Post by: Eight-Bit on October 23, 2007, 07:15:07 pm
So, yeah, lets get this show on the road. I don't know if it was the serious threat of harm, the destruction of my W key's bouncyness from annoyed smashing, or the recent nvidia driver I downloaded. I also disabled the other video card.

Somewhere between doing all of that it started working again.
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Post by: Tanman on October 23, 2007, 07:31:05 pm
Yaaaay.........8bit is back.
Title: Re: Yo.
Post by: Eight-Bit on October 23, 2007, 07:31:44 pm
Quote from: Fatherchaos
Eight Bit, out of curiosity - is the nwn application running but the screen appears "black" ?

If that is the case, it is in fact caused by the newer 100.xx series of drivers from Nvidia. If you get lucky - it is possible to click on the "load game" button and the screen will come to life. So for me everytime I launch NWN it's a crapshoot to see the screen as I have to maneuver around and find the right thing to click. If by chance I click the wrong menu, and hear the "click" sound, but noting appears, I hit ESC a few times to back out of what ever menu I loaded and try again.

I really should have taken teh blindfighting feat.


I found this. It should help you out.

[Quote = Some guy from Bioware]

A viable work around for those users that either want to wait for a non-beta driver or do not want to roll their existing drivers back is to create a shortcut to nwmain.exe, right click on it, choose "Properties", the "Shortcut" tab, and then in the "Target" field add the following text after "\\NWN" (i.e. C:\\NeverwinterNights\\NWN\\)

nwmain.exe +TestNewModule "modulename"

Please note that there is a space before the + sign in the above line. This will launch the game and immediately try to load a module with the name "modulename" (which shouldn’t exist). You could then use the "cancel" button to back out to the main menu and start your game as normal.

[/quote]
Title: Re: Yo.
Post by: Eight-Bit on October 23, 2007, 07:35:43 pm
Quote from: Some Guy From Bioware

A viable work around for those users that either want to wait for a non-beta driver or do not want to roll their existing drivers back is to create a shortcut to nwmain.exe, right click on it, choose "Properties", the "Shortcut" tab, and then in the "Target" field add the following text after "\\NWN" (i.e. C:\\NeverwinterNights\\NWN\\)

nwmain.exe +TestNewModule "modulename"

Please note that there is a space before the + sign in the above line. This will launch the game and immediately try to load a module with the name "modulename" (which shouldn’t exist). You could then use the "cancel" button to back out to the main menu and start your game as normal.




Try doing what he said. It worked for me.
Title: Re: Yo.
Post by: Fatherchaos on October 24, 2007, 03:10:34 pm
Sweet Dirty Monkies! Thanks mate :)
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Post by: Falonthas on October 24, 2007, 09:19:41 pm
oh bloody hells 8 bit and dur both at the same time, hold on to your hats
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Post by: Fatherchaos on October 25, 2007, 03:12:34 am
Nah, we don't steal hats  . . . well unless the head was still inside it, and answered to the name mimir, and granted free sandwiches on command . . .
Title: Re: Yo.
Post by: Eight-Bit on November 07, 2007, 02:02:07 pm
Quote from: Fatherchaos
Nah, we don't steal hats  . . . well unless the head was still inside it, and answered to the name mimir, and granted free sandwiches on command . . .



I'll try and be on some nights, and some weekends, but it will only be an hour to an hour and a half investment. Until school is out and I can ride on the Layonara train for a little while longer.
Title: Re: Yo.
Post by: Eight-Bit on January 25, 2008, 09:14:19 am
Quote from: Eight-Bit
I'll try and be on some nights, and some weekends, but it will only be an hour to an hour and a half investment. Until school is out and I can ride on the Layonara train for a little while longer.


Even with school out it's impossible to get the time to log in. When school starts  again, and it does this Tuesday, I'll never see Layonara.
Title: Re: Yo.
Post by: Fatherchaos on January 25, 2008, 12:48:50 pm
I hear ya mate. I think I log in every so often just to stir up the cobwebs.

Hard to play with Promotion (aka extra hours) + school + girlfriend + *cough* eve online *cough* I haven't even had a chance to play supreme commander lately. I guess it was a good thing that I picked up a nintendo ds lite - it's really become my only gametime.

I'm confident that some day soon Key and Dur can go on a rampage and annoy all the "primers" XD
Title: Re: Yo.
Post by: Eight-Bit on February 06, 2008, 10:56:03 pm
You can't say I haven't tried. I've gone to log on, but two people were in, so I decided to go for a run instead.

Anyone else in New England notice that it won't stop raining?
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Post by: Fatherchaos on February 07, 2008, 02:13:57 pm
No worries mate, there will always be hats filled with heads laying around for collection :) I'll certainly c'ya round, if and when.
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Post by: Eight-Bit on February 14, 2008, 11:53:03 pm
Free time tomorrow. Until early evening. I want to do stuff, see the new areas, roleplay, and maybe get some duels in. If you want to meet up with a level 15 Rogue who will gladly stab you in the back before doing what you want, then please by all means let me know.

Otherwise, pike off. Sodderin' idjits.
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Post by: Fatherchaos on February 15, 2008, 01:22:04 am
Bleeding apple chasssser.

XD
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Post by: Eight-Bit on August 16, 2008, 03:20:54 pm
So a minor update! I had to delete NWN for space for utilities for classes. It was  a wicked bummer but let's face it, I don't play anymore. I'm sticking around for the MMO, but to be honest I'm not feeling like I'll be into it like I was NWN's layonara. It's a different time in my life, and time is really the issues.

I'm moving to Ohio in January. We haven't picked a location yet but we're looking to be within 30 minutes of Mason.
Title: Re: Yo.
Post by: Fatherchaos on August 18, 2008, 03:01:52 pm
I hear you mate. I know a lot of my game time has gone to the wayside. I'm pretty much limited to quick fixes lately, which I don't think I can do appropriately in Layo :)

I'm still around for the community and to see what this whole mmo thingy is about.

And to think, I just graduated from High School 10 years ago and I have all these nifty memories and wacky responsibilities :)
Title: Re: Yo.
Post by: Eight-Bit on November 11, 2008, 06:07:01 pm
21 days until I move to Ohio.

Hooray!
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Post by: Interia_Discordius on November 12, 2008, 07:29:01 am
Ohio? What part?
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Post by: Eight-Bit on November 12, 2008, 08:30:41 am
West Chester, down near Cincinnati.
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Post by: Interia_Discordius on November 12, 2008, 12:32:19 pm
Whoa, that's like... only about an hour away from me.

Heyyyyy, 8bit~
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Post by: miltonyorkcastle on November 12, 2008, 12:40:17 pm
Oh.

Hi!

.......

oh.
Title: Re: Yo.
Post by: Eight-Bit on November 16, 2008, 12:19:15 am
Word up
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Post by: Link092 on November 16, 2008, 01:00:45 pm
Quote from: miltonyorkcastle
Oh.

Hi!

.......

oh.




O-hi-o? what?
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Post by: Eight-Bit on November 17, 2008, 08:53:21 pm
Quote from: miltonyorkcastle
Oh.

Hi!

.......

oh.


Took me three days to get that one, sirrah!

Touche, indeed!
Title: Re: Yo.
Post by: Eight-Bit on November 26, 2008, 03:03:28 am
So two days until the big move. I'm not excited about the drive, but I am excited to get out of stabsville and into a nice, quiet, semi-rural community with access to the assets a city provides.

Almost everything is packed, and because all of our furniture was ruined by too many parties, we're lucky enough to be taking all of about 22 boxes with us. Boxes which will be distributed between two cars while still having room for my guitar, our tv, and a carrier with two cats in it.

I'd hate to be a cat come Friday morning.
Title: Re: Yo.
Post by: Eight-Bit on December 07, 2008, 09:30:11 am
Ohio is awesome. Everyone is nicer, and I'm spending about 50-60% to live just like I did in Massachusetts.

It's pretty laid back, which I'm enjoying, until people get into a car. So I'm fitting in just fine. Beer is almost half price, but booze costs about 30% more. So meh, whatever.

It's pretty amazing what 800 miles can change.

Any other Ohio Layo players out there?