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I've been playing Planetside on and off for several years.  I get busy sometimes and let my subscription expire, but I always seem to go back to this game.

The gameplay is complex but simple at the same time.  I can go in during lunch and have a good battle or die a few times.  Basically it involves going to the supply truck or terminal, grab your favorite weapon config and going back out there.

It's for busy people and let's you relieve some stress, but at the same time, you can spend all night playing it and not get bored.  Every other character you see in the game is another person friend or foe.  Your heart races as you plan on how to eliminate them or how to escape when you are outnumbered and outgunned or severely wounded and looking to loot a med kit from a fallen soldier.

I will be uploading some old movies we made way back when, but also planning on making some new ones using this new hardware

For those who play this game, I'm on the Gemini server which was combined from Emerald and Markov.

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VirtualBox in general has been really fun and stable.  I did however have to watch out for some things.

• When upgrading VirtualBox, you should delete all snapshots and let them be integrated into your main image.
• Don't shutdown the VirtualBox guest by powering down or you may lose your OS.  Hope you made a snapshot

 

•  Installing VirtualBoxGuestAdditions:

  • Windows

    • Login to windows
    • Device/InstallGuestAdditions
  • Ubuntu
    • Login to ubuntu
    • Device/InstallGuestAdditions
    • Run these commands in a terminal:
      • cd /media/cdrom
      • sudo bash ./VBoxLinux*
  • Fedora
    • Login to Fedora
    • Device/InstallGuestAdditions
    • Run these commands:
      • cd /media
      • cd /VBOXADDITIONS_1.5.6_28297
      • sudo bash ./VBoxLinux* 

 

• Shared Folders
  • Guest Additions need to be installed
  • Setup the shared folders from the Device/Shared Folders menu
    • If you keep the default name, you will get an error message: mounting failed with the error: Protocol error
    • So if the share name was for example ReynoldTech, change it to ReynoldTechShare
    • Make a directory to mount this (as root)
      • mkdir /mnt/ReynoldTech
    • Run the command to mount the shared folder
      • mount -t vboxsf ReynoldTechShare /mnt/ReynoldTech

 

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What can I say about BlogEngine.NET?  I'm using it here and am very happy with it.

It works right out of the box just about if you want to make it your main website.  I had to do some tweaking to get it to work in a subdirectory of my website such as /blog.

Some minor bugs in the current version but plenty of themes.  It uses master pages as well as css so it's up to you if you want to copy/customize an existing theme.

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I've been playing around with VirtualBox for about 2 months now and it's one of the best OS virtualization solutions available.

I've been able to get away with running Ubuntu and Fedora using 256mb of ram and Windows 2003 server using 1gig.

Backups before major changes have been easy with the snapshot feature which also allows you to roll back to a previous snapshot if you totally mess it up. 

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I have recently (about a month ago) started playing this game and I'm really enjoying it.

It plays on low end computers as well as taking advantage of the high resolution graphic cards.

The game itself is true to the Lord of the Rings lore according to JRR Tolkien's books (which I've read about 20x).  It can be as involved as some of the other MMORPG's such as World of Warcraft, but you can easily spend a 15-30 minute break online and still feel you accomplished something.

It's really fun, and of course the best part of it is you can play/chat with your friends while running around killin monsters.

More later...

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I don't know what it is, I may have lost something.... but for some reason, I've grown bored with a lot of my video games.

I used to play a new game and really enjoy it, really be in the game and adventuring, experiencing the thrill of combat, racing, or whatever.

Now it seems that some some games, even those I've enjoyed for years seem to be draining me.  I find myself not playing carefully, getting killed a lot in combat games that I used to be good at and also playing just for the score or the xp.

What happened to the thrill?  What happened to the excitement?

More later....

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