What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[oxymoron]

I do!

Man this is awful. I have no idea where I got it. Might even just be stomach flu or something. I haven't had any undercooked meat or uncleaned vegetables. I don't have any idea.

huh, you live in Colorado. I recommend taking a drive to the nearest smoke shop and buying a bag of grass and some papers. That should do the trick.

[jinx]

You know what gives me nightmares? Game Genie glitches like IKAAAE.

See #8

This is awesome. I'm going to have to look into this when I get home.

The AC is broken at work! For the first time it actually feels good in here. However, the temperature has been rapidly rising and it's well over 90 degrees in here. We may end up having some server issues if it keeps going up like this. Still rocking my long sleeves, but I may have to shed them pretty quick if it keeps going.

Why only read the first line of my email if you asked for help? This happens far more often than it should, so I try to put the most important information on the first line. What's worse is: Why skip the first two lines of me email and read all the useless logs that you can't even understand!?

When leaving for work, I noticed that my Hierodula started molting. Huge surprise and completely unexpected. Can't wait to see how much bigger she got in the morning.

The veins in my hands and knuckles have been swelling up a lot lately. It's been causing some extreme cramps/pains in my hands, especially when typing.

[Luke]

Smiles:

I told my long time buddy who visited last night about our annual charity auction and he'll be donating "whatever crap" he says has. Video games aren't his bag of tea, so don't expect him to post in any other topic than the new charity thread.

Last night I cooked bone-in Jerk pork chops with a mango habanero chutney, plus diced zuchinni dusted with coriander with a drip of molasses and a few slices of jalapeno served cold. He asked for the recipe.

After dinner we played catch (no glove for me, dude throws with a limp arm), tossed around the frisbee, chatted outside, and watched Revenge of the Nerds on the projector. Good times.

Although both of us are strongly opinionated and we rarely agree, we never argue. Friends like that are not a dime a dozen.

[CRTGAMER]

Ticked: Broke the right joystick on my Steel Battalion controller. It was sitting on the floor and I accidentally ran my foot into it, and it snapped clean. Going to try and glue it back together and hope it holds.

Dang that must suck. I was thinking about picking one up. Are they worth it?

I personally love the game, but I'm also a huge fan of the MechWarrior games. The controller is well integrated with the rest of the experience and really gives you a sim feel to it. My biggest complaint is the right hand joystick is very stiff, which is probably want contributed to the accident. I imagine that part of the plastic has been getting weaker over time. I bonded it back together with a plastics superglue and it's sitting straight up no problems. Going to give it time to set before I try to manipulate things.

Good luck on the stick. From what I understand that huge controller assembly works on only two games, Steel Battalion and the followup Line of Contact. Does just part of the controller work on other Xbox games? A very nice unit to own, one day I hope to find one. Have you tried it on the PC with an USB adapter?

[fastbilly1]

Good luck on the stick. From what I understand that huge controller assembly works on only two games, Steel Battalion and the followup Line of Contact. Does just part of the controller work on other Xbox games? A very nice unit to own, one day I hope to find one. Have you tried it on the PC with an USB adapter?

No part works on any other games
It works on PC with a USB adapter, you will have to work alot to get it configured in a game though. It took me several hours to get it to work right in MechWarrior 4.

Sorry it broke Popo. I am still missing a second one for playing Line of Contact.

[MrPopo]

Good luck on the stick. From what I understand that huge controller assembly works on only two games, Steel Battalion and the followup Line of Contact. Does just part of the controller work on other Xbox games? A very nice unit to own, one day I hope to find one. Have you tried it on the PC with an USB adapter?

No part works on any other games
It works on PC with a USB adapter, you will have to work alot to get it configured in a game though. It took me several hours to get it to work right in MechWarrior 4.

Sorry it broke Popo. I am still missing a second one for playing Line of Contact.

So my first attempts have failed; the problem is I need an adhesive that has a high amount of sheering strength, since that's the main stress on the join.

[fastbilly1]

Sorry it broke Popo. I am still missing a second one for playing Line of Contact.

So my first attempts have failed; the problem is I need an adhesive that has a high amount of sheering strength, since that's the main stress on the join.[/quote]
Pictures?

Im guessing you might have to add metal braces inside the stick with some jbweld

[MrPopo]

Yeah, unfortunately the stick is very narrow; it's about 1/4" inside. At this point I think I'm going to bite the bullet and see if I can snag a new one off eBay.

[Opa Opa]

: Can you people please drop the "Hardcore VS Casual" debates? It's a sad day when I'm finding the inane bitching about Capcom/Squareenix to be preferable conversations.

[Hobie-wan]

Yeah, unfortunately the stick is very narrow; it's about 1/4" inside. At this point I think I'm going to bite the bullet and see if I can snag a new one off eBay.

Time to make it bionic. If that's a shaft at the bottom, might need to find some metal tubing to work in there.