Delta! 1,021 Posted April 29, 2019 Posted April 29, 2019 2 hours ago, gogoblender said: YOu were definitely missed friend... but oh what a reason for it... a new laptop (well almost :D) I was hoping to get one of those 2 TB gigs... ... are you keeping a lot of photos or movies on your drive? Happy to see you back Theuns! gogo Thank you, and it is great to be back. I do have quite a few family fotos, but mostly series, movies, music and games. I could've gone for a 1tb, but the price difference justified the 2tb... and it boots and loads soooo much faster now than it did with the HDD. I have filled up about 1.3tb since I've gotten it back... and I don't even have all my music back yet. 8 minutes ago, gogoblender said: Insane the shadows flying over the cobbled streets are breathtaking 🥰 gogo The test is visually very pleasing. I am surprised that they don't have any water...? Have I gotten so far behind that fluids/water flowing is not a part of a benchmark test anymore?
Hooyaah 3,124 Posted April 29, 2019 Posted April 29, 2019 54 minutes ago, Delta! said: Thank you, and it is great to be back. I do have quite a few family fotos, but mostly series, movies, music and games. I could've gone for a 1tb, but the price difference justified the 2tb... and it boots and loads soooo much faster now than it did with the HDD. I have filled up about 1.3tb since I've gotten it back... and I don't even have all my music back yet. The test is visually very pleasing. I am surprised that they don't have any water...? Have I gotten so far behind that fluids/water flowing is not a part of a benchmark test anymore? Indeed, even Unigine's newest and 3D benchmark, Superposition, has no water. There are other factors that are employed to assess processing and test PhysX effects.
gogoblender 3,463 Posted April 29, 2019 Author Posted April 29, 2019 1 hour ago, Delta! said: Thank you, and it is great to be back. I do have quite a few family fotos, but mostly series, movies, music and games. I could've gone for a 1tb, but the price difference justified the 2tb... and it boots and loads soooo much faster now than it did with the HDD. I have filled up about 1.3tb since I've gotten it back... and I don't even have all my music back yet. The test is visually very pleasing. I am surprised that they don't have any water...? Have I gotten so far behind that fluids/water flowing is not a part of a benchmark test anymore? How fast is the up and download speed in your area have you considered just keeping your data in a offline drive or even cloud? I know that adding so much ssd to a laptop is pricey... though I have been thinking about it myself gogo
Delta! 1,021 Posted April 30, 2019 Posted April 30, 2019 21 hours ago, gogoblender said: How fast is the up and download speed in your area have you considered just keeping your data in a offline drive or even cloud? I know that adding so much ssd to a laptop is pricey... though I have been thinking about it myself gogo I am not 100% sure how fast it is. I have tried playing Dota 2 online once, and my connection was fine, even though I accidentally kicked someone out because they paused, I thought I did something wrong and clicked "continue"... yeah, he was one of the best ones on the team, and the rest of the team was pretty upset with me... so that was the beginning and end of my online playing career. Mortal Kombat 10 that I bought as a Bday present for my Fiance was 35.6GB and took a day and a half to download, while we where busy downloading movies + series, watching Netflix, being online most of the time... so I suppose it is nothing to complain about, for the most part it is pretty stable... I do not know how to do the offline drive/cloud thing... I are noob.... I have been very happy with the SSD. definitely worth it.
Dragon Brother 620 Posted April 30, 2019 Posted April 30, 2019 9 hours ago, Delta! said: I do not know how to do the offline drive/cloud thing... I are noob.... I have been very happy with the SSD. definitely worth it. I imagine gogo meant use either an external hard drive (offline drive) or something like google drive / dropbox / one drive (cloud drive) on your computer which will sync your files with their cloud service - in my experience this is as simple as installing the chosen software and pointing it at a specific folder(s) and it will do all the uploading in the background whilst you use windows as normal. And yes, SSD is the best upgrade to pretty much any computer without one! 1
Delta! 1,021 Posted April 30, 2019 Posted April 30, 2019 Oh. right, well I already have 2 external hard drives... a 1tb and my old desktop hdd 250GB that I put in a casing, unless someone accidentally formats them, like my fiance did to my 1tb. It had all my movies, series, and music that I had been collecting since primary school... well, I forgave him and still love him. The google drive/dropbox is not something I have tried before... 1
Hooyaah 3,124 Posted May 1, 2019 Posted May 1, 2019 3 hours ago, Dragon Brother said: I imagine gogo meant use either an external hard drive (offline drive) or something like google drive / dropbox / one drive (cloud drive) on your computer which will sync your files with their cloud service - in my experience this is as simple as installing the chosen software and pointing it at a specific folder(s) and it will do all the uploading in the background whilst you use windows as normal. And yes, SSD is the best upgrade to pretty much any computer without one! I agree that a Solid State Drive is a wise choice, as it speeds the data transfer rate significantly and hence ones computer's speed. I don't trust the reliability of cloud storage and the many publicized breaches of companies' data indicates a lack in assured security. I much prefer saving my data on external drives which do not rely on internet connectivity for on demand retrieval.
bhj 26 Posted May 3, 2019 Posted May 3, 2019 On 2/26/2009 at 6:47 PM, bhj said: yeah "the feeling" is sneaking up on you just talking about it Hmm what happened to the time ? I posted that over 10 years ago
gogoblender 3,463 Posted May 5, 2019 Author Posted May 5, 2019 On 5/3/2019 at 2:00 AM, bhj said: Hmm what happened to the time ? I posted that over 10 years ago heh... it has a way of dropping away quickly in this place... nostalgia alones pulls in thousands of readers year after year just wanting to see if where their gaming got started from is still here... I'm hoping that one day that love bug forum will come back... if at least with a warning to wear sunglasses ^^ gogo
Spock 273 Posted May 8, 2019 Posted May 8, 2019 I'm mostly a Lurker on Darkmatters, but do try to follow most of the topics that gestate on the board. Sometimes I even participate. I haven't been a member all that long, but I remember playing Sacred using a copy I had to purchase from the UK because it wasn't available in the US yet. I like having a 512GB SSD as my boot drive on the PC I built but recently it has decided to not recognize the SSD sometimes and tries to boot from the 4TB data only harddrive. When it first happened, I panicked. Now I just go into BIOS and reset everything. I suppose I should get a spare SSD and make a copy but having heard there is an i9 intel processor, I want to get one of those. We also have iffy power here in the US, though I imagine not quite as bad as in South Africa. I have everything important on individual UPS boxes. It gives me a feeling of security to know that my electronics are protected. 1
Whisky 11 Posted May 8, 2019 Posted May 8, 2019 my father gifted me sacred gold 1 for Christmas and I was hooked on the game after. I discovered the wiki late 2017 and then this about a month later. I have contributed to several of the unfilled quest entries for sacred 1. thats about it. 1
gogoblender 3,463 Posted May 11, 2019 Author Posted May 11, 2019 On 5/8/2019 at 4:51 PM, Whisky said: my father gifted me sacred gold 1 for Christmas and I was hooked on the game after. I discovered the wiki late 2017 and then this about a month later. I have contributed to several of the unfilled quest entries for sacred 1. thats about it. A perfect gift. And with that, your work found its way into the game via it's Wiki Thank you! gogo
gogoblender 3,463 Posted May 13, 2019 Author Posted May 13, 2019 On 5/8/2019 at 4:19 PM, Spock said: I'm mostly a Lurker on Darkmatters, but do try to follow most of the topics that gestate on the board. Sometimes I even participate. I haven't been a member all that long, but I remember playing Sacred using a copy I had to purchase from the UK because it wasn't available in the US yet. I like having a 512GB SSD as my boot drive on the PC I built but recently it has decided to not recognize the SSD sometimes and tries to boot from the 4TB data only harddrive. When it first happened, I panicked. Now I just go into BIOS and reset everything. I suppose I should get a spare SSD and make a copy but having heard there is an i9 intel processor, I want to get one of those. We also have iffy power here in the US, though I imagine not quite as bad as in South Africa. I have everything important on individual UPS boxes. It gives me a feeling of security to know that my electronics are protected. Iffy power? Spock r u on the East Coast? gogo
Spock 273 Posted May 13, 2019 Posted May 13, 2019 4 hours ago, gogoblender said: Iffy power? Spock r u on the East Coast? gogo Fairly close, yes. 1
Popular Post SLD 524 Posted August 26, 2024 Popular Post Posted August 26, 2024 (edited) 9 hours ago, DruidoMatto said: thanks for reply, I'm on silver difficulty , started from there. I used bronze only with at my first play when I bought the game, but abandoned after the fourth or fifth mission.... my fault 'cause not said before I wrote the post sorry Well that shifts the level expectation a little but not much. So the information is still about accurate... 9 hours ago, DruidoMatto said: 12 hours ago, SLD said: Now would someone please explain what this emoji is doing? He looks like he's holding some kind of trident/pitchfork in his left hand, but what is he doing with his right hand? There's so much action and I just can't figure it out I barely got the back behind his door and now someone unleashes diablo... My fault again, originally I was serching this emoji , but didn't see (scrolled ALL the emoji two times and didn't see), also when I choosed the devil he isn't move in that moment and what I've seen it's only a little similarity with the "cool emoji" So you'r defense is: You unleashed the "devil" by accident, because you thought he was "cool"? hmm sadly that still doesn't explain what diablo is doing in that emoji... I have looked at it at 500%zoom. First his hand moves undeneath him from one side to the otherwhile he "jumps"... don't know what it means but I noticed at this part of the animation the Hand is attached to an "arm" that comes out of his nose? Well may just be animation weirdness, after all later the hand is no longer attached to him at all... But then the hand changes shapes and makes all kinds of movements... There's a story in there and I can't figure it out. I wanna know what the devil is up to Edit: Had to fix some stuff as the forum changes "double question mark" into "colon closed bracket"... weird Edited August 27, 2024 by SLD 2
DruidoMatto 8 Posted August 27, 2024 Posted August 27, 2024 22 hours ago, SLD said: So you'r defense is: You unleashed the "devil" by accident, because you thought he was "cool"? exatcly that 22 hours ago, SLD said: hmm sadly that still doesn't explain what diablo is doing in that emoji... I have looked at it at 500%zoom. First his hand moves undeneath him from one side to the otherwhile he "jumps"... don't know what it means but I noticed at this part of the animation the Hand is attached to an "arm" that comes out of his nose? Well may just be animation weirdness, after all later the hand is no longer attached to him at all... But then the hand changes shapes and makes all kinds of movements... There's a story in there and I can't figure it out. I wanna know what the devil is up to Edit: Had to fix some stuff as the forum changes "double question mark" into "colon closed bracket"... weird I've seen all the devil's emoji animation and I can suggest you to going to watch a scene from Guardian of the galaxy, where Starlord explain to Drax what it's mean a finger over a throat (in the jail scene)....... maybe I can explain in the same way but, in this day, I fear to write "some explanation" in a forum 1
SLD 524 Posted August 27, 2024 Posted August 27, 2024 3 hours ago, DruidoMatto said: I've seen all the devil's emoji animation and I can suggest you to going to watch a scene from Guardian of the galaxy, where Starlord explain to Drax what it's mean a finger over a throat (in the jail scene)....... maybe I can explain in the same way but, in this day, I fear to write "some explanation" in a forum Googled it. That may also be an interpretaion for the hamd movement side-to-side underneath the head. But it wouldn't explain anything about the rest of the hand movements. There's a story here depicted in the diablo emoji. Someone put work into creating that. I just wanna know what it's supposed to show us The forum search function sadly can't properly search for the emoji to track down its source, or at least I couldn't figure out how. 1
Popular Post Sethi22 298 Posted August 27, 2024 Popular Post Posted August 27, 2024 (edited) 7 hours ago, SLD said: But it wouldn't explain anything about the rest of the hand movements. There's a story here depicted in the diablo emoji. Someone put work into creating that. I just wanna know what it's supposed to show us As always, you can count on me when talking about something completely unimportant, irrelevant and offtopic... I think Diablo here got tired of his old medieval methods he had used for so many years, and decided, it was more fun to do damage with bigger Area Of Effect using that stick of dynamite he pulls out. To make things easier. No? Edited August 28, 2024 by Sethi22 1 1
Popular Post SLD 524 Posted August 28, 2024 Popular Post Posted August 28, 2024 6 hours ago, Sethi22 said: I think Diablo here got tired of his old medieval methods he had used for so many years, and decided, it was more fun to do Area Of Effect damage with that stick of dynamite he pulls out. To make things easier. No? So you think the last thing in his hand is a stick of dynamite? Maybe. That would make the first move certainly the finger over throat one. Second his hand moves again very quickly, I think he might be pointing towards the one he meant with the first move, like the druid does in diablo 2's character selection screen. Then something very briefly appears in his hand and disappears again, I can't tell what it is, but it's supposedly not what he wanted to conjure up so he shows the emppty hand(palm) towards us as a "wait" sign while shaking his head. He then slams his fist on the ground/shkes it and pops up a stick of dynamite? or two? That would only leave the question what the first thing he manifests in his hand is. To investigate more I've made some screenshots. Sry that the end result seems to have so low quality... Picture 1 shows the finger over throat part. I guess that is what it is supposed to be and it should obviously be the index finger because there are only 3 fingers shown below... His other hand however shows, that he only has 3 fingers and a thumb so it's actually his thumb? I would guess it's an oversigtht by the one who made the emoji, because thumb across the throat makes no sense... Picture 2 shows what I originally thought was pointing at the target of the first move but It looks more like he's covering his eye or slapping himself in the face? Not sure what it's meant to be. It could also be "pointing" with the entire hand. There is another frame before the shown one where the hand is a bit more to the left(our left) so it "moves" from left to right. This picture also shows the 3 fingers one thumb part. Picture 3 happens after the hand is back at his side. The first object appears in his hand and diablo seems quite happy about it. There is no indication of where it came from nor why it disappears immediately. When it's gone diablo no longer looks happy puts his hand up, palm facing us, fingers stretched out, while shaking his head. That's what I interpret as a kind of "no, wait" sign. He then either slams his fist multiple times on the ground or shakes it and then we get to: Picture 4. Here again he has something in his hand and his face looks more mean than happy. Might also be a one sided grin. The thing in his hand looks more like two or more copies of the thing from Picture 3. Sticks of dynamite would make sense here, but I still have no explanation how the contents of Picture 3 ended up in his hand and why they dissappeared... or what the move in Picture 2 is supposed to be... any ideas on those? Also just noticed picture 2 shows something up between his horns, either the first stick of dynamite or his tail? How can one emoji be so complicated? 1 1
Popular Post Sethi22 298 Posted August 28, 2024 Popular Post Posted August 28, 2024 (edited) You really have a beautiful, analytic, scientific mind SLD, you just took this poor old devil and made science out of him! Well done! I think that first what he tries to tell us is that his trident used to be good back in the days, that's why he "points" at it with his other hand and then holds his thumb up. But now, that there are more subjects on his little planet, he'll need something more efficient. And that's when he pulls out the dynamite. He got tired from poking each poor soul individually with the trident, and wants to make them jump into the cauldron in hell together, in groups. Edited August 28, 2024 by Sethi22 1 1
gogoblender 3,463 Posted August 28, 2024 Author Posted August 28, 2024 11 hours ago, SLD said: So you think the last thing in his hand is a stick of dynamite? Maybe. That would make the first move certainly the finger over throat one. Second his hand moves again very quickly, I think he might be pointing towards the one he meant with the first move, like the druid does in diablo 2's character selection screen. Then something very briefly appears in his hand and disappears again, I can't tell what it is, but it's supposedly not what he wanted to conjure up so he shows the emppty hand(palm) towards us as a "wait" sign while shaking his head. He then slams his fist on the ground/shkes it and pops up a stick of dynamite? or two? That would only leave the question what the first thing he manifests in his hand is. To investigate more I've made some screenshots. Sry that the end result seems to have so low quality... Picture 1 shows the finger over throat part. I guess that is what it is supposed to be and it should obviously be the index finger because there are only 3 fingers shown below... His other hand however shows, that he only has 3 fingers and a thumb so it's actually his thumb? I would guess it's an oversigtht by the one who made the emoji, because thumb across the throat makes no sense... Picture 2 shows what I originally thought was pointing at the target of the first move but It looks more like he's covering his eye or slapping himself in the face? Not sure what it's meant to be. It could also be "pointing" with the entire hand. There is another frame before the shown one where the hand is a bit more to the left(our left) so it "moves" from left to right. This picture also shows the 3 fingers one thumb part. Picture 3 happens after the hand is back at his side. The first object appears in his hand and diablo seems quite happy about it. There is no indication of where it came from nor why it disappears immediately. When it's gone diablo no longer looks happy puts his hand up, palm facing us, fingers stretched out, while shaking his head. That's what I interpret as a kind of "no, wait" sign. He then either slams his fist multiple times on the ground or shakes it and then we get to: Picture 4. Here again he has something in his hand and his face looks more mean than happy. Might also be a one sided grin. The thing in his hand looks more like two or more copies of the thing from Picture 3. Sticks of dynamite would make sense here, but I still have no explanation how the contents of Picture 3 ended up in his hand and why they dissappeared... or what the move in Picture 2 is supposed to be... any ideas on those? Also just noticed picture 2 shows something up between his horns, either the first stick of dynamite or his tail? How can one emoji be so complicated? Nice work with pulling out the different segments SLD Organized, clarity, and perfect sizes ... , the forensic emoji investigator is in house! This emoji part of the topic is..fascinating (yes, @Lindorhas his own smiley ) We were looking at this smiley last night over dinner... there is an amazing number segments, but both me and Schot were undecided (and in fact debating) how to spread sheet each segment with singular word...because each word, as its organic... and depending on perspective, namely ourselves, can get mutated when passing to the next. The entire "meaning" of the smiley is there for... unlimited its like most human faces are...theres no real set value for what is being expressed because the conditions under which the value is being expressed is constantly changing. More like a set range of perhaps agreed upon values for each segment? Fun Fact ...when Schot was creating the forum years and years ago he was very picky with the emojis being used (nothing dark, nothing angry, mostly light-hearted and celebratory ) and created the DarkMatters aesthetic and "feel". We only recently a few years ago did an upgrade to the Emojis because community just wanted more...but overall the feel of DarkMatters as expressed by this emojis remains, I believe, intact. Second fun fact... when I mentioned last night to Schot that there was some discussion about this animated devil smiley he responded (with a devilish grin ) ... "Its my favorite emoji in the forum " ... whaaaaa maybe well put together some of the responses in the thread to a story topic of some kind Its kind of interesting and is a part of DarkMatters history gogo 1
gogoblender 3,463 Posted August 28, 2024 Author Posted August 28, 2024 We have a lot many New fabulous wonderful members about 15 years after this post was started and about five years after the last post was posted… I was having a difficult time finding this topic here at DarkMatters, but finally was able to scrounge it out on Google I’m putting a bump onto this topic so I can get back to it later after work when I have access to a keyboard and I’ll start bringing some potion from some people asking about some of the emoji History of our forums Had a bit of a nostalgia kick when I saw what the forum looked like many many years ago scoot had a lot of effects and animations from sacred underworld game running on the forum And our collection of Smileys back then was small, but the hunt was on to get the entire collection to DarkMatters 🤠 gogo 1
Hooyaah 3,124 Posted August 28, 2024 Posted August 28, 2024 Whoa, that "Groove Skin" reminds me of this... It's totally REDONKULOUS!!!
SLD 524 Posted August 28, 2024 Posted August 28, 2024 7 hours ago, gogoblender said: We were looking at this smiley last night over dinner... there is an amazing number segments, but both me and Schot were undecided (and in fact debating) how to spread sheet each segment with singular word...because each word, as its organic... and depending on perspective, namely ourselves, can get mutated when passing to the next. The entire "meaning" of the smiley is there for... unlimited its like most human faces are...theres no real set value for what is being expressed because the conditions under which the value is being expressed is constantly changing. More like a set range of perhaps agreed upon values for each segment? So even you guys have no clue what it was meant to say or who created it 7 hours ago, gogoblender said: This emoji part of the topic is..fascinating (yes, @Lindorhas his own smiley ) No! For "fascinating" we already have the emoji. The oversized Lindor emoji that seems to show an eyebrow raising vulcan is just illogical as Lindor is an android not a vulcan. Being illogical is however a very human trait and therefore Lindor, as an android striving to be more human, creating the illogical emoji makes sense The problem with the emojis is that we use them like words, yet for someone who doesn't understand them there is no translator, as these emojis are creative in nature. There is no limit to the number of emojis that can be created and the only one who knows what its supposed to be is the creator. For many emojis it might be easily recognizeable, but with my eyesight I am especially emoji-illiterate. On this forum many emojis are helpfully named after what they are supposed to show. I mean we all get the standard smiley-face and laughter options etc. But for me even the was kinda confusing. Luckily the name tells me what it is. without the "bow" name could have just as well been a praying muslim... But this forum also has emojis that are just named after their creator like . At first the written symbols where absolutely unreadable and I thought it was some asian alphabet... It took me a while to make out the "E=mc²". While on the darkmatters forum the emojis are still in "balance", I fear the future of this emoji-insanity. There are already parts of the internet that have reverted to full hieroglyphs, where entire sentences are just emoji chains. And they're even used metaphorically. Man, every dick on the internet now has an eggplant, so you don't just have to learn the pictures but also the potential other meanings those might have. I feel so old At least it hasn't reached every place of communication yet. Some people still want to understand each other Back to the "diablo" emoji. My investigation here was luckily just some fun as the enoji wasn't actually used for what the animation shows. It wasn't even used intentionally at all. Just an accident. Exactly how the diablo emoji should be used. It's just like you standing there, all evil of the world has been vanquished. You wonder what to do next. And then you realize: That pointy red chrystal on the floor... I always wanted to slam something like that into my skull... Don't take the emoji rant to serious, as long as the |||| remains behind a closed door, the three tristram are happily grazing with or without great eyesight. Cows are partially colourblind anyway 1
gogoblender 3,463 Posted August 28, 2024 Author Posted August 28, 2024 3 hours ago, Hooyaah said: Whoa, that "Groove Skin" reminds me of this... It's totally REDONKULOUS!!! heh I think that movie was the number one inspiration for that them awwww, we miss it gogo 1
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