Cybernikes

I just found out that I am a bad neighbor according to the raving lunatic that lives across the street! Yeah, that is what he shouted at me from his porch after I went out to find out what the commotion was last night. Why? Well because apparently it's my job to hear all the people allegedly screwing with his property at night. Are you serious? You could drive a truck over my head at night and I wouldn't even flinch! And first of all if it's been happening at the time it did last night, I was STILL WORKING! Yeah, my house is old with a four foot thick stone base culled off the property, and lath and plaster over a double course of bricks on the top! Furthermore the 'core' of the house is sectioned off by two six foot wide mahogony pocket doors, a double set of doors off the kitchen and my office. You couldn't hear a cruise missle if it came screaming through the front window! Heck is he talking about? My wife called me down in my office and told me the guy was in the street screaming, I did not hear a thing. I go out just in time to find out that I am in on some great conspiracy involving the tyranny of our local law enforcement , and a roving gang of fifteen yerar olds who have somehow targeted only him! If he were so concerned why did he not come and ask his neighbor if he'd seen anything? Look three years ago before I moved the family in, I had someone break into the back door while I was inside working. I heard the door slam as I came charging out the back. I put a note on my back door that said, "I'm armed are you?". Never had a problem since. I don't know why he's being targeted, but he must have ticked someone off, because this ain't exactly Beruit here. Could be his personality maybe? The gas company called the cops on this moron because the said he threatened to kill them over them working during his nappy time! Who makes an enemy of the one guy who actually came out to help you? What a schmuck! Cable out every ten minutes, normal people moving away, energy costs skyrocketing and now this jerk! Too bad, G-Town used to be such a great place.

Well, uh first of all she's watching him like she's momma bug, and secondly she went and got him flowers that he's supposed to eat. He's got food ,shelter, a warm bed and I'm pretty sure a mini ipod. Secondly I keep forgetting she's the preacher's daughter and she probably is praying for him, and ...well..he is looking better?!

Okay, so we all hate insects pretty much right? They get in our faces and food and are just all around pests in general. So yesterday evening we are sitting on the porch having dinner. Nothing fancy, just the family with some of Beth's mouthwatering pork chops and a bottle of Merlot, and the cool breeze generated by our ceiling fans. Suddenly a lightning bug flies past my face but is apparently caught in the fan's vortex and instinctively I swat it away. I really thought nothing of it, it was just a normal reaction. Except, well it injured the bug. Now see, my wife, she really, really likes fireflies, and moths, and butterflies, and cats, and dogs, and gerbils, hamsters, gophers, beetles, ladybugs, chipmunks, aardvarks, owls, cheetahs and a billion other life forms on our planet. She was very upset. "Honey, he's a bug, it's not like his quality of life has been seriously downgraded." "I mean I'm sorry and all, but I'm pretty sure I won't be incarcerated for my heinous crimes, nor will I be forced to spend an eternity in hell doing penance over this." "He's a bug, circle of life know what I mean?" Yeah, his name is Bob. Bob the Lightning Bug. Bob is recuperating right now on my front porch in a little house I made for him out of a chocolate box and a roll of metal tape. Tell me love does not make us do stupid things. Seriously. This is a woman with a master's degree, in education no less, and yet she sobs when she tells me "Bob is going to die."...Bob...a bug. "Well, okay well it is Sunday honey, ...pray for..uh..Bob..may God ....uh...heal him, .........and of course may He have mercy on my soul for perpetrating this dastardly deed, that goes without saying!" So what about Bob?...Well it ain't looking good sports fans, ....I'll keep you posted on the funeral arrangements.

Ah, well as I said we already have AT&T in part of the house, and as far as I know the only real alternative here. But I'm not exactly thrilled with them either. Two things come to mind, speed which I already mentioned and some really annoying billing practices. Now granted my wife and I have had no problems with their current business internet service, but we used to have their cell service and I hated them then. Every month with AT&T cell phone service it was like a bad episode of let's make a deal. "Oh no, it looks like we will be billing you arbitrarily this month with a price plan we just pulled out of our butts! I know you are paying more than we agreed on but hey we own all the cell phone towers so what are going to do about it?!" Yeah that got old real quick. Now like I said I really don't have any gripes about their internet service, but knowing how they have been in the past really makes me wary.

Let me Warner you, its rant Time, about my Cable company. So I have this cable company whose name I will not mention, and they are without a doubt spawn of the eternal satan. Four days ago my internet went down, it is still down, four days ago. Not my neighbors mind you, just me. Still down, still without service, right here smack dab in the industrialized heartland of America. Yeah, I know I'm posting, I'll get to that. (Actually, at one point I thought I had fixed it, I logged in here and started to post when it went back down!) So, you know I don't like the cloud, even though some nifty tools reside there. Well I was working for a client that required a specific toolset, available only in the cloud, when like clockwork, just past midnight my internet goes down. Now this is nothing new to me. My crappy cable company apparently has my particular connection spliced together with two soup cans, some twine and duct tape, because every single freaking evening like clockwork the net goes down. This has become a ritual on nights where I am pushing a deadline, stop, stretch, do some minute task waiting for the modem to reset. Some short task while the crack crew over at the acme cable and hair care center get their collective acts together, you know, like re-roofing the entire house. Seriously this ritual is guaranteed to suck up at least three mind numbing hours watching the little yellow icon staring back at me, while my modem blinks rapidly in total confusion from the credenza. Now when this first started happening, I used to call the techs. But now, I almost always try to save myself the near stroke out I get from talking to the infuriating batch of morons they have assembled over at tech support for the sheer purpose of pissing people off. Almost always. Three hours came and went, still no service. Four, five, six, seven. Seven hours! Seven am, fighting sleep, up all night doing in seven hours what I could have done in one, had I not been forced to find a toolset workaround, I'm ready. Me; *Dials crappy cable company local office* Crappy cable service local office; *Queues message* "Hi, I'm an incredibly annoying person with an accent that is indigent to some other star system near the former planet Pluto, and if you don't like my message you are a racist, planet killing homophobe." ... ..."If you are calling about the pretty obvious outage you are experiencing please note we really don't give a crap. It's true we are doing some planned work in your area that we did not care enough about you to warn you about in advance, and it's equally true we are confounding the matter by hiding behind insipid taped messages and endless obnoxious sound loops that only serve to piss you off even further, but as we say around here, tough! I mean, you are free to start your own cable service ha ha ha ha.".... ...."Good night irate customer, please pay your bill then go straight to hell."...*click* Me; *Dials crappy cable company's national customer service number* Crappy cable company's national customer service; *Queues message with insipid, overly sweet, highly condescending, female voice.* "Hi, you sure pushed those touch tone buttons like a real trained monkey, good boy! Unfortunately we gottems a wittle pwoblem, so sad but, Johnny isn't getting cable tonight, so now you get back to bed young man and stop tying up the phone 'cause we don't have answers for wittle boys up past their bed time!" *click* Me; *Dials crappy cable company's national tech support number* Crappy cable company's service tech; "Hi, I'm Loser Joe, what can I help you with, and say would you believe I have been fired from my last seven consecutive jobs and I still can't tie my own shoes without aid?" Yeah, as you can imagine that was a very fruitful call wherein snotty tech guy, who was probably trying to figure out how to use technology in a proper sentence while I was taking charge of the delivery of the Space Shuttle main fuel tank, proceeds to try and educate me on the astoundingly intricate workings of the single most crappy modem ever invented! So here is how the next four days went. I make the roundabout calling in sequence, main office, customer service, tech support. I talk to anyone I can get to the phone, agents, supervisors, supervisors' supervisors, techs, geeks, suits, and I'm pretty sure someone from the custodial department. Nothing, nada, zip zero. All that calling and we get a schmuck in a truck who pops out for two seconds while I have crashed from exhaustion, looks at my wife , says nothing, slaps a tag on my door that says sorry we missed you, your change of service has been done. Change of service who ordered change of service? What do you mean you missed us? Did you think the lady out front carrying bags of groceries into the front door you are hanging a door tag on was breaking in? That’s it! Okay so here is how I am online. See we have the crappy cable company serving my home office and my personal two computer intranet and our home phone. I have kept them solely for their high upload speed. I set this up after I got a back door virus courtesy of one of our son's computers. Now my wife also works on the web, she's a writer. Her home office is above mine overlooking the back yard, and we have an AT&T account (business, you can't have two personal accounts to the same address) which creates the second intranet, consisting of Beth's computer and the other computers, tablets, media servers in the house. So, I went out and bought a forty dollar cable and strung it from upstairs into my office so I could get back online, thank you crappy cable company. So what have I learned? Well if nothing else it has served to underscore my misgivings about cloud based clients in general. So I guess I'll just have to port my phone over to AT&T and make do with their cable service which although reliable, is about as blazing fast as your average carrier pigeon. And the crappy cable company? Me; *Dials crappy cable company tech support* Hello Loser, how the heck are ya? Say you know that modem we were talking about, well I got it right here in front of me. And know what else I got? It's called a sawsall....S..a..w..s..a..l..l, that's right kiddies it's a tool we old timers like to use for really pesky problems, now don't be afraid at the noise. WOW look at it cut right through this plastic, bwah ha ha!!!

Well I'm not looking at the mod so I can't say for sure. However when I made a custom horse and companion mod for Oblivion myself ( personal use not uploaded), I set the instance into the game world and right clicked on it and set ownership to the NPC I made. I also made custom summoning spells for both the NPC and their horse, which solved a lot of headaches, especially for NPCs who refused to follow you through the main city gates. As far as the karma ( can't remmember what it was called in Oblivion) thing, I really could not say, though I suppose you could try setting the horse's to match if that is possible.

I tried playing with the moons myself, but like you found no objects. My new project has a dynamic sky, changing from perpetual darkness to normal after the main mod quest is completed. Changing the texture shape and cycle of the moons was part of the new night sky, however like you I can not see where the texture is actually applied. I tried looking in evey mesh folder I could, but to no avail. I have come to the conclusion that it must behard coded, however if you find out to the contrary I'd sure like to know about it. Good luck.

Looks like the winner is Caruso! I guess that means we owe Tamira a cookie. Enjoy! Thanks everyone for helping out, cheers!

Sale on cryengine at steam! Any closet developers out there here is your chance to get the toolset cheap. http://store.steampowered.com/app/220980?snr=1_41_4__42 I'm not normally a big fan of online clients, but this looks promising. Signed up for an extened look myself, who knows where it will lead. Cheers!

Welcome to the Alliance! Hope your time here is long, fruitful and rewarding! Oh look, here's the refreshment tray, help yourself! :cookie4u: :cookie4u:

Well at least you can fix them, before I had Hermann built I was going to have my backup ( then my main) pc upgraded to the same hexacore processor. Siegfried has a quadcore variant of the same i7 extreme as Herman, but the shop over here in G-Town wouldn't touch it. Pretty sure they could not spell Intel if you spotted them the I and the L.

I've seen this and different variants around the web! I'm wondering though did you change Sun to Mac, (as in some versions) because you are a Mac user? just curious. At any rate there would be some good things about Microsoft making cars, 1) It would bring back out of necessity, shade tree mecahnics, since 'factory' approved mecahnics from MS would be incompetent! Which in turn would, 2) Return us to the days when cars were not too complicated for anyone to work on. 3) And, it would ensure that more 'parts' were on the market since the average car would be much older and in dire need of parts! Of course the bad far outweighs the good, so lets all be grateful it has not happened!

Ha, she does not play games they all look alike to her! I took her for a walk through of 'Wolkenheim's' underwater dungeons and the village, and I'm pretty sure that is her first look 'inside' any game. Although I've modded more than a few games for the boys, Mount and Blade, Civ5, and Mercs2 etc, she probably could not tell you which was which. And the Bears, well they all have their own personailities and are fully 'voice acted' by me!

He's in therapy, I don't want to make things worse for him.