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Well, it's probably temporary, but it'll work for now. :P I managed to find a way to extract the SWF files from the Flash Player EXE files, so I've zipped them up, uploaded them to Filefront, and... "The Ever-Matrix Trilogy" by FortunadoTa-daaa! For those who might not know what I'm talking about (or who may be finding this entry through a Google search), the link above is a link to the "Ever-Matrix" movie files in SWF format. The Ever-Matrix Trilogy is a trio of Flash movie clips that were made by a person named "Fortunado" some years back. (Note: I am not Fortunado.) The title of the movies is pretty self-explanatory -- "Verant" is an Artificial Intelligence program created by a man named "Sony," which is designed to maintain the "Matrix" world (i.e.: EverQuest) and imprison the world's population. However, things are breaking out of control... The movies are composed almost entirely of screenshots from the original EverQuest game engine, along with music from various bands in the background, and the dialog is text-based. Compared to today's standards, the video may look kinda crappy, but it was really damn good for its time, and I still believe it's one of the best fan-made video series ever made. Total playtime is approximately 50 minutes between all three files. To watch them, simply drag-and-drop the SWF file you wish to view into an open browser window. Internet Explorer or Mozilla should work just fine, as long as you have a Flash 4 (or higher) plugin installed. Unfortunately, these movies have been on and off the internet for many years now. I'm doing my part to keep them alive! So, even if you've never played EverQuest before, or you hate MMORPGs, the Matrix series, fanfiction, or whatever -- if you have the time, it's worth a watch! (Even if it's just to gawk at the horrible EQ graphics engine from 9 years ago.)
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Well, it's true! I decided to pop into Strand of the Ancients earlier today for kicks, and the Horde were handily kicking ass. Sadly for me, riiiiiiiight as the victory screen was popping up, I got booted out of WoW and didn't receive credit. Bah! So I decided to do some troubleshooting: properly install WoW, disable QuestHelper, and zone into the BGs from old-world instead of Outland or Northrend. The results: A win in AV, and a win in another Strand! For the second Strand attempt, I have a bit of a story to share. For starters, I was the first one who entered the zone Horde-side. Meaning I was the BG leader. Great, a green rookie is #1. Ugh. But I remained silent throughout (after discovering the WoW client wouldn't respond to my wish to make somebody else leader), and just about everybody else did as well... until we started losing.  We held 'em off as best as we could, I kept people stunned and tried to slow them down as much as I could, but alas, we lost. In the heat of the moment, someone nerdraged and ragequit. ... Sucks for that person, because we later came back with a VENGEANCE!  I was in one of the two vehicles that plowed through the gates nearly unopposed. Gate #1, one guy was in a cannon firing at us. We ignored him and blew down the gate like it wasn't even there. Gate blew open, we proceeded. Inside was a rogue just... standing there, AFK. I took aim and blasted him a few times. He died. I ran over his corpse, and while I wasn't rewarded with a POP-SQUOOSH sound effect, it was still satisfying. Came up to the second gate to encounter.... nobody. We blew down that gate too, and rolled on to the final gate. Two people, each manning a cannon. One's aim was terrible, the other not so bad. Once again we focused on that gate, and it caved in. Our two tanks rolled on, and we started taking potshots at the relic chamber. Sadly, this is where my tank died -- so I popped out and started attacking the nearby paladin, who was in fact the ONLY player nearby... who promptly bubbled and took off after the other tank. I chased him, the other tank took down the relic chamber door, and as soon as his bubble faded I stunned him and ran into the relic chamber to collect my prize! Not to mention two achievements, including one for beating Strand in under 4 minutes. Hawt. A satisfying ending, especially remembering the ragequitter who cost himself his own victory. -I-Current Mood:  amused
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TheRegister: Microsoft bribes Oz to ditch Firefox"We've buried $10,000 somewhere on the internet and if you're the first one to find it, you get to keep it. But you'll never find it using old Firefox. (So get rid of it, or get lost.)"... Lol. That's so sad. In other news: a couple of thousand angry Australians landed in Redmond, WA today to protest Microsoft's ten thousand dollar giveaway promotion. The men and women from down unda' had installed the latest Internet Explorer software suite and visited the promotional website shortly after 12am local time. However, the site had already been modified and defaced by an anonymous third party. Using exploits that had been introduced with the latest version of Redmond's web browser, the deformed website installed a slew of keyloggers, trojan horses, and other malware which copied the users' personal data, broadcast it to a series of IP addresses located around the globe, crippled the machines they had infected, and presented the victim with an image of somebody's middle finger in the center of the screen with the words "Thanks for playing, [expletive deleted]!" Giorgio Maone was quoted as shaking his head and saying: "[They] shoulda stuck with NoScript." A Microsoft spokeswoman was quoted as repeatedly banging her forehead into her computer desk. She otherwise refused to comment. Current Mood: amused
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