Return of the Blind Cat!
posted by Sylpher @ 11:33am, Saturday 11 October 2008.
If you saw the blind cat that is in my photo album then this video might pull at your heart strings.
Outlaws - The Cliffs
posted by Sylpher @ 8:30am, Saturday 30 August 2008.
The Cliffs are up here and here. Only using knives and dynamite on this one. The final level is just around the corner.
Stand Right Next To A Mountain
posted by Sylpher @ 3:27pm, Friday 29 August 2008.
I discovered a bow in my acoustic recently that despite fiddling the truss rod could not be worked out. To make myself feel better I stepped up in the world and finally got an electric!
I feel much better now.
My Chain:
Epiphone Les Paul Custom
Boss Metal Core ML-2
MOTU 8pre
The Laptop
I'll be your friend
posted by Sylpher @ 3:29pm, Thursday 14 August 2008.
Whenever I see a picture online of someone taking a picture of themselves using a mirror, all I can think is, "Don't you have friends?"
Sid Meier's Railroads!
posted by Sylpher @ 8:38pm, Monday 11 August 2008.
I recently picked up Sid Meier's Railroads! as I enjoy the occasional strategy or simulation game. After playing the game for around half an hour it would drop dead with a generic error message and kick me back to the desktop. 
I did as any person would do and try to figure out what the heck was wrong. A couple Google's and forum lurkings later I discovered that the game has a memory issue that it runs into constantly with Vista due to its high resource demands. I tried all suggestions to remedy this such as turning off Aero and sacrificing cute animals to the old ones. 
They were not pleased.
I ran into similar issues in Vista with Deus Ex and Thief 3 and ultimately had to face that Ion Storm is gone and any hopes of an update is close enough to squat that I might as well not do any holding of my breath/bathroom breaks. Railroads is different, though. This is a game that came out in late 2006, just months before Vista was rolled out by a company very much alive and healthy.
Let us also not forget that it is built on Gamebryo, the same engine Civilization 4 is built on -- made by the same company for you not following -- which I have not had a single issue with in Vista. I might as well throw in that Civ4 was released a year prior to Railroads just for the heck of it.
All this considered I figured things can't be as hopeless as Ion Storm's games, so I sent off an email to 2k Games as that is what the Firaxis site says to do (OR ELSE! maybe... ) asking about the issue. After waiting the past week I finally received my heartfelt response:
Hello,
It appears you are running the game in Windows Vista, which unfortunately is incompatible with Railroads.
Well. Screw that noise. I setup a small partition on my drive and installed XP so now I am able to play Railroads and Ion Storm's games again, and probably others I haven't tried yet in Vista. Happy as I am that I am able to play I still feel the scorn from Firaxis/2k Games. Don't think I will forget this Mr. Meiers! You win this round.
Next round Buddhism is out! 
