Nice gesture

These look really cool

~Sol

Wow this game is impossible.

~Sol

Soldjah, I'm curious, how much was it going to cost? I, too, was unaware they offered that domestically.

It was $129 a month, but included the phone with it... unlimited phone calls to anywhere in Australia including mobile phones. And no line rental. For $149 a month they threw in a PS3 with the new Singstar (yay >.>) and some keyboard thing for it. I was gonna get the $149 package since I'm still without my own PS3 D:

It is an Optus exlusive deal, and they are currently only offering it in testing areas. I just happen to live in one of the areas they wanted to trial now.

Currently I am paying about $70 a month for the phone as it is, and $70 a month for internet (150Gb ADSL2+), so the cost wasn't the problem... the wife didn't want to get locked in to the 24 month contract for the new internet just in case we wanted to change over or had issues paying at any stage. As it stands, we can cut off our current internet or drop it back from $70 to something cheaper if finances become a problem.

~Sol

Australia is set to go from worlds WORST internet to the worlds BEST internet in the next 12 months.

The problem with renting out server space is the pathetically small bandwidth allocation per month. 30Gb is all you get (uploads are counted as part of that). If you exceed the 30Gb you get "shaped" from 100mbit to 256k. **** ***** still.

~Sol

Moved to Discussion.

Also, there have been some attempts at physics based platform games... though nobody has released the events as an open source yet. I imagine in time there may be more examples of this kind of thing around the place... but you may have to try and figure it out yourself, at least for now.

~Sol

Yara

LOL xD

deadeye

Yeah, I backed out at the last minute. Price wasn't the issue, I can afford it... but being locked in for two years is going to ***** Seeing as this particular provider is one of the more expensive providers... once the cheaper guys get a hold of the same technology there will be a major price war and I will get the same deal for less than half the current asking price.

For now I will stick with my current ADSL2+ (which is still reasonably fast anyway I guess) and look at Fibre in about a years time when it's more common in the household.

~Sol

My other brute is better than the one in my sig...

Look for ShawtyRed and see if you can beat her

*EDIT*

Wow damn Alee... wtf is that weapon you have? That thing pwnt me in 2 hits! O.O

~Sol

The simplest solution is probably for someone to write an online plugin

Been waiting on that for months :/

Also, Dataflash... If you test anything out, I'd be keen to see how it works out. If it's plausible for something simple, it may work for something more complicated.

Keys

Hmmm well that sort of confirms the IRC idea... though I would have no idea where to start with something like that. It's been so many YEARS since I've used IRC I would have to relearn all of that stuff just to get a room going with reliable bots... which would then need programming scripts etc etc.

I am still determined to find a way... I work with the tools I have... and since I don't have a proper tool, I will dodgy something together and make it work as good as it can.

Thanks for your input everyone... I think I have enough information thusly to realise this won't be easy, but should at least be possible to some extent. If anyone gets all excited and starts playing with this idea themselves, please share any results you find so we can all learn from it.

~Sol

There is no need to delete anything. Just slow down a bit and give people time to participate before creating a new challenge.

I would suggest a new one once per week, or something like that... this will encourage multiple solutions/examples and also not take up too much of peoples spare time.

Good ideas though... I like how you have made them with some continuity and presented them with some funny pictures and captions

And yeah, everyone chill out... this isn't fag-chan or HL2world forums...

Here we make hug, not yell. Do not make me get all dissapoint. >.>

~Sol

Hahahah weeeew dial-up!

Yeah I'm noe reconsidering this... it would be nice etc, but I don't want to get locked in to a 2 year contract with a new technology... I can see the prices dropping like mad once the roll-out is complete.

Will be making up my mind by tomorrow afternoon so I can call and cancel if I still feel unsure about it.

~Sol