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  • in reply to: Spoilers #1352
    DeVaultSetter
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      Pretty good, thanks!
      Along with the black box you could have the text “hover to reveal” or similar – depends how long the text is of course. Any chance it could it be placed on the menu?

      in reply to: Films & TV Shows #1347
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        Something that old to be still behind a paywall? Does it come through on IA?
        As a matter of interest, they screened the original Friday the 13th last night. The first 45 minutes came across as a thin, run of the mill chain of events, turned out to be the right formula for the bunch of shocks that ensued. 🙂

        in reply to: Spoilers #1346
        DeVaultSetter
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          There’s quite a bit going with it, because obviously there has to be a button that triggers the event.
          Here’s a recent thread where Milan has commented. There is still this fork of an early Tom Braider iteration, very old and now read-only. Tom Braider had the following code for WP 4.5:

          `<?php
          /*
          Plugin Name: Tiny Spoiler
          Plugin URI: http://www.tomsdimension.de/wp-plugins/tiny-spoiler
          Description: [spoiler name=”top secret”]shows/hides this text[/spoiler]
          Version: 0.2
          Author: Tom Braider
          Author URI: http://www.tomsdimension.de
          */

          /**
          * adds stylesheet
          */
          function insert_spoiler_css()
          {
          echo “<style type=’text/css’>
          .spoiler { border: 1px #000 dashed; }
          .spoiler legend { padding-right: 5px; background: white; }
          .spoiler legend input { width: 30px; }
          .spoiler div { margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; height: 0; }
          </style>\n”;
          }
          add_action(‘wp_head’, ‘insert_spoiler_css’);

          /**
          * adds javascript
          */
          function insert_spoiler_js()
          {
          echo <<<ENDJS
          <script type=’text/javascript’>
          function tiny_spoiler( id )
          {
          var s = document.getElementById( id ).style;
          var divs = document.getElementsByTagName(‘div’);

          if ( s.height == ‘auto’ )
          {
          s.height = 0;
          s.padding = 0;
          document.getElementById( id + ‘_button’ ).value = ‘+’;
          for ( var i = 0; i < divs.length; i++ )
          {
          if ( divs[i].parentNode.id == id )
          divs[i].style.height = 0;
          }

          }
          else
          {
          s.height = ‘auto’;
          s.padding = ’10px’;
          document.getElementById( id + ‘_button’ ).value = ‘-‘;
          for ( var i = 0; i < divs.length; i++ )
          {
          if ( divs[i].parentNode.id == id )
          divs[i].style.height = ‘auto’;
          }
          }
          }
          </script>
          ENDJS;
          }

          add_action(‘wp_footer’, ‘insert_spoiler_js’);

          /**
          * creates spoiler code
          *
          * @param string $content spoiler content
          * @param string $name title
          * @return string spoiler code
          */
          function replace_spoiler_tag( $content, $name )
          {
          $content = do_shortcode( $content );
          $caracteres = array(‘a’,’b’,’c’,’d’,’e’,’f’,’g’,’h’,’i’,’j’,’k’,’l’,’m’,’n’,’o’,’p’,’q’,’r’,’s’,’t’,’u’,’v’,’w’,’x’,’y’,’z’);
          $addition = ”;
          for ( $i = 0; $i < 10; $i++ )
          $addition .= $caracteres[rand(0,25)];
          $id = str_replace(‘ ‘, ”, $name).$addition;
          $s = ‘<fieldset class=”spoiler”>
          <legend>
          <input type=”button” onclick=”tiny_spoiler(\”.$id.’\’)” id=”‘.$id.’_button” value=”+” />
          ‘.$name.’
          </legend>
          <div id=”‘.$id.’”>’
          .$content.’
          </div>
          </fieldset>’;
          return $s;
          }

          /**
          * parses parameters
          *
          * @param string $atts parameters
          * @param string $content spoiler content
          * @return unknown
          */
          function spoiler_shortcode( $atts, $content )
          {
          extract(shortcode_atts(array(
          ‘name’ => ‘Spoiler’
          ), $atts));
          return replace_spoiler_tag( $content, $name );
          }
          add_shortcode(‘spoiler’, ‘spoiler_shortcode’);
          ?>`

          Do you think we could zhuzh it up a bit for good effect?

          in reply to: Random #1345
          DeVaultSetter
          Keymaster

            How old is the dog btw? Probably enough years between us to get a pet thread up in any case. 🙂
            Tried going into the app settings for Yu-Gi-Oh – could be something stuck in the content cache or something. Also other problems revealed here. 😛
            Cool! What got you onto that – reviews are very positive, and Deviant has a page as well.

            in reply to: Software: On & Off the Web #1342
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              Did play The 7th Guest once, found it to be well presented and very playable, do remember consulting a hint sheet towards the culmination of the mystery. It’s still playable, of course, and if the rig has no CD drive, try an emulator for the Wayback version, or even the special ed on offer over there.
              Do you use Chrome on there or the inbuilt browser. Not a frequent user of Chrome on the Android, so haven’t tested the limits enough for any helpful assessment. On the PC, the cache “self manages” on Chrome and Edge so that manual intervention hasn’t been required for years. As a consequence of intensive browsing episodes, cookies could do with some trimming after a while. 🙂

              in reply to: Baldur’s Gate #1334
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                Yeah, there’s still issues with EE even after all this time, a major improvement would be to adjust the angle of view in the interaction area. By how much, and too how much it would or should impact gameplay and quest progression is more a question for a dedicated patch team than some random modder. For no other reason than a complete decompilation, followed by considerable restructuring of the game engine code. 😛
                Another little quirky thing bobbed up regarding Windows and DirectX immersion, if you run Disk Cleanup during an active game, the cleanup progress bar window will flash in and out of the game screen until Disk Cleanup is complete. Even when the cleanup progress is moved off screen, the game doesn’t quite run how it should.

                in reply to: Films & TV Shows #1327
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                  If it is this one with Charlie Brown, the music hits the right spot. 🙂
                  Anything with Dustin Hoffman is worth a gander, and Rain Man is a super bonus in the event the Vegas itch ever gets the better of us and our card counting mates!
                  Streaming all the series of Departure, it’s great if you like quick plot development, crash porn, and well dressed people strutting around being very much up to speed in solving important cases. (Quite interesting as well.) 🙂
                  Right at the beginning Underwater gets straight into the slushy and squelchy D & D action with little fanfare, it takes the liberty of assuming one is already familiar with the layout of the vast water catacomb. Could not resist the desire to leave the movie halfway through, but not before hearing this joke. 😛

                  in reply to: Sounds and Music #1326
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                    This one isn’t Charlie Brown related, but it’s nice. 🙂

                    in reply to: The Long Hall of Hilarity #1325
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                      (Leaving that one bee-hind);
                      What did the fish say when it ran into a wall? Dam!

                      in reply to: Cooking #1314
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                      Keymaster

                        Oh, do forgive the lateness, oxtails of course – although folks are starting to call them beef tails. Does beef really have a tail, as is the original name wrong, though as it is oft said, better the devil you know. 😛 Nice with plenty of lentils, onion, sage and spice – and then anything you like. 🙂
                        Has the Bible arrived, and will Chapter 1 have the account of the genesis of all the ingredients used in the book, in seven days?
                        Hmmm, could it be cursed in some way, so that whoever consumes the bread is very speedily transformed into a mummy?

                        in reply to: Software: On & Off the Web #1310
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                        Keymaster

                          Played NWN long time ago, ground breaking graphical setup for the time, and fun to play, although a rather “linear” plotline.
                          Could be they stage it so you can’t get past L1 unless there’s a Donation or other micro-transaction performed. And, for further discouragement for freeloading noobs, the language filters can be set to do stuff like translating a remote player’s “top of the morning to you, friend” into “get out of my face, scumbag.”
                          Forgot all about <shift><Escape> bringing up the browser task manager for all the tabs in Edge. 🙂

                          in reply to: Random #1309
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                            Could it ever be that all our illustrious and industrious beekeepers become so, because all the bees in the hives bee-have?

                            Solar Sails sound rather idyllic, there’s also a magnificent pdf article by S. Cowley on fusion.

                            Cool, looking at the page source, there’s www.universetoday.com\/wp-includes, so something special about another wp site? (Won’t go as close as sister-site, more like a few parsecs removed) 😛

                            in reply to: Sounds and Music #1301
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                              Sorry, the first url somehow got barfed – fixed it. The other three urls are thanks to Believe SAS, Polydor and Universal. How odd it is for all these folks to have to get all copyrighteous over their regions though.
                              Gotta get the mic out to record some fine snoring – in the meantime, there is a cat over at Freesounds. 🙂
                              https://freesound.org/people/sagetyrtle/sounds/77267/#

                              in reply to: Sounds and Music #1280
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                                Gotta include Henri Salvador here – one of a kind really when it comes to songs like Pauvre Jesus Christ.
                                There are some cracking songs in that selection as well. This one from ~1958:

                                And much earlier the classic Le Petit Indien, later, the old À la Claire de Fontaine:

                                in reply to: Baldur’s Gate #1276
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                                  Could have been, the relevant reg keys are in the OP above, but now with Widescreen and HD Gui working well enough, there’s no need. 🙂
                                  Please forgive the above omission of GemRB for Linux and Windows, and yep, they have a forum up as well. 🙂

                                  in reply to: Films & TV Shows #1275
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                                    Funny, our houses of tomorrow never did ever get the technology to fool the IRS like that. Along with the extra hurdles of instantly converting the 500 hectares of manicured gardens into an impassable weedy wasteland, and back again!
                                    Never tire of any of the Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes cartoons!
                                    What’s your favourite Scream movie?

                                    in reply to: Random #1263
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                                      Thread. 🙂
                                      Man meets Unicorn – beautiful! They played this on out this FTA news bloopers segment:

                                      Edit: Interesting about the “Storyful Managed” block. Something weird Rupert inserted in the Action News 5 licencing?

                                      A new website release in response to the current growing housing shortage, sh*t rentals, is spruiked on TikTok, scroll down there to enjoy the reviews. First heard of it on the FTA Drum, wish we had something like that back in the day. Do you think it would boost their brand to get suitably themed uniforms, along with paraphernalia like logos, badges, hats, ‘fridge magnets etc.?
                                      Sh*t Rentals Forever (Not!)
                                      They have a burgeoning db, too! 😛

                                      in reply to: Films & TV Shows #1260
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                                        Aw shucks, no blu ray here, couldn’t they conjure up a Mickey Mouse styled DVD set for the rest of us luddites, or even better, load it all on USB stick or even Torrent!
                                        Freddie is unforgettable though, once he has popped up in the corner of your frustrum, he’ll never go away!
                                        Classic! 🙂
                                        The Paris Creation model is beautiful, but will those Louis XIV curtains hide everything that is bound to happen inside?
                                        Yeah the Mexican jumping beans idea could turn the fast food industry on its head – mouth wide open! Wonder why the chicken slot machine idea never took off – over here you could go down the club, play the slots, and then buy a ticket for the meat hamper raffle. Not the same thing though. 😛

                                        in reply to: Baldur’s Gate #1259
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                                          Yes, could be intentional as well – if only recollections of the previous gameplay 10 years back could shed light on similar! Right now, half a day on, the courtesan and her (conversationable) companion have disappeared from the area. As a matter of interest, it’s not immediately obvious if such movements and dialog of unnamed NPCs are moddable – or even trackable at all.
                                          Haven’t got Linux installed yet, never was a question of if, but when! 🙂

                                          Few more random gleanings:

                                          • Another pitfall in running mods or patches on a DVD installation is the read only permissions on the root Baldur’s Gate folder set by the installer. If left untouched, there’s always the suspicion some mod installs will report a successful write or patch when actually nothing has happened.
                                          • There exists a remnant log of an attempted BGT setup back in 2012, SETUP-BGT.DEBUG, the failure was because:

                                            Throne of Bhaal is required to install this modification.

                                            Weird, have the 4 CD set – maybe they wanted a full install to disk instead.

                                          • Bioware also kind of messed up their versioning in the 1.3.5512 official patch. The BGMain and BGMain2 executables are replaced with files in the patch with version numbers 1.3.0.1. The launcher, Balder.exe has a version of 1.0.0.0., and the readme it links to shows a version of 1.3.5508!
                                          • An option to provide a full stack dump in Baldur.ini exists, Debug Dump=1, might have been an issue back in the day when upon accidentally hitting the dump hotkey, finding the system in hard labour from the flush of activity from the disk drive.
                                          • Inserting the following line in baldur.ini made no detectable visual change in-game:

                                            OpenGL VERSION=-1

                                            The setting is seen in a different form (and values 0 and 1) in some more recent LUA EE configs, not sure if the original game used it, OpenGL was version 1 at the time.

                                          • Console commands are discussed at length in Chapter 11 at Pocketplane’s Volothamp’s Comeuppance:
                                            A more concise list lives at the IESDP appendices.
                                          • Ooh, and the IESDP itself is whopping large, providing support for all the great Infinity games.
                                          in reply to: Random #1251
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                                            Captain ImGreat (anag. of Ragtime): All aboard the good ship Ragtime! Hey look, there is a TigerMa on the GeriMat! You’re seeing double – it’s actually a TriMage!
                                            Goodness, what are the drinking habits otherwise? Is that real coffee, and what happens to it after! Suggesting decaf or hot chocolate/carob surely can’t hurt.

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