alright, so i got modnation racers beta yesterday, and the load times were pissing me off. it was like 10 minute loads. they piss me off in all games. so what do i do? well i pop the harddrive out of my ps3, pop the still empty 15000 RPM hard drive out of my new home pc (i bought 3 for apps, but i seem to only need 2) put my old harddrive in an external enclosure, popped the 15000 rpm one in, and guess what? i load games in like 2 seconds! i may have to pop the 15000 back into my pc now and buy my ps3 an SSD.... lmao!

heres to hoping this isn't ban worthy.... i'm not from northern ireland so i don't see why it would be....

how to make ping pong ball aerial shells? that's been a secret of mine for a while.....

get a fuse ( 6 inches preferred, must be quite good. cotton string works too*)
5 ping pong balls
a blender
acetone
a pvc pipe and an endcap, 1 inch diameter
some pure metal, doesn't matter which, i prefer copper though. about 3 grams.
some gasoline (will not be used as the explosive so it isn't technically a bomb, and therefore requires no license to use)
a candle
a drill press preferably
a hot glue gun.
1: place 4 ping pong balls in the blender, set to puree for 30 seconds. pour contents into another container.
2: add to ground up ping pong balls about a tablespoon of acetone. leave sit for about half an hour
3: remove the now discolored ground ping pong balls from the container, carefully, they're nitrocellulose now, a more powerful propellant than black powder.
4: put the end cap on the end of the pipe, and seal the edge with LARGE quantities of hot glue, an inch thick bead all the way around is good.
5: place nitrocellulose inside pipe
6: take the ping pong ball and drill a hole wide enough to fit your fuse through in it.
7: fill your ping pong ball with acetone.
8: place fuse in hole, seal tightly with hot glue. must be done quickly before acetone evaporates.
9: take your candle, grind finely. melt wax, pour in gasoline roughly 1 cup to 1 cup. stir well.
10: pour in metal, must be ground well, stir more.
11: roll ping pong ball in extremely flamable wax
12: cover bottom bit of ping pong ball in about 1/2 inch at least of hot glue to prevent early detonation
13: drill small hole in bottom of pvc pipe
14: thread your fuse through your nitrocellulose powder in the bottom, then out the hole.
15: light fuse. the fuse burns through to the powder, sets it off, launching the ping pong ball in the air, with a fuse still burning.
16: when the fuse gets inside, it ignites the acetone, as well as the inside wall of the ping pong ball, that has now been turned into nitrocellulose, which when burned makes 6 times the amount of gas that black powder gives off, in other words, it's 6 times more explosive.
17: this forces it apart, and also ignites the wax coating, which burns at about 1200 degrees, enough to light the powdered metal, which if you chose copper, burns green, giving off a firework.

* to use cotton string, you must dip it in nitric acid first, which transforms the cellulose in cotton into nitrocellulose, just like acetone converts the celluloid plastic of a ping pong ball into nitrocellulose. guitar picks are also made of celluloid.

you will want different lengths of fuse to set it off near the ground, as the blast itself is only about a 12 foot radius (including the flying colored metal sparks) compared to the 60 or so of 4 inch aerial shells used in fireworks displays, so you should set it off at about 30 feet.

so i work on CGI advertisements for "high quality" tv. in other words, the firm i work at makes shiny stuff to show between bits of the superbowl/stanley cup/american idol, not scrubs or re-runs of american dad. we recently did an ad for Dell's new low prices, and instead of actually paying our firm money, they allowed us to spend 3000 dollars MANUFACTURER'S PRICE on new parts for our computers or new computers. this means the 1600 dollar Xeon cpu, is about 300, mobo's never breach 40 bucks, and the nvidia quadroFX5800 is 120.

so heres my new workstation.

24 GB's ddr3 2133 ram

dual intel xeon E7440

four, that's right, FOUR Nvidia Quadro FX5800 1792 MB GDDR5 workstation graphics cards

double Seagate Barracuda 1 tB 7200 RPM drives with lifetime warranties (cause they break sometimes)

one 320gb SSD

total price retail: 14,172.96 USD, before tax and shipping

what dell payed for it: 2759 USD, before tax and shipping (which didn't exist cause it was purchased in tax free states and they delivered it themselves)

i mean bloody hell. i can max out crysis with max anti-aliasing and everything now, just every scroller down to the bottom, AND run a million+poly 3dsmax scene at the same time now!

I am so tired, of developers trying to take what's already been done and do it better. Uncharted 2, Gears of War 2, Bad Company 2, Gran Turismo 5, Forza Motorsport 3, all are just their prequels with a bit of enhancements. Now mind you very rarely you'll get a gem of good development with this tactic (see cryengine 3) but most of the time, it's like buying full price expansion packs! I, for one, don't want the best. I want everything. every single thing you can imagine, in one game. especially on ps3, they have 50gb to put it on! or 250 if they used the layered discs!

I want one game, with realistic driving, (see need for speed shift or GT) like 90 cars, the ability to drive those trains, planes, and boats you see all over the map, GOOD ai driving all that stuff too, the ability to hijack all those without button mashing, instead just model their interiors, so you can punch or shoot the drivers, BUT i don't want grand theft auto. I still want it to have the ability to use iron sights, custom loadouts, destructible environments, a GIANT open world, lots of factions that you can please or anger that sell things to you, jobs the factions or just individuals can pay you to do, and hundreds of weapons to boot. now, this is too much to ask you say? no it isn't! because it can all be done **** i don't care if there are texture pop-ins, or it's not 1080p, or my character has the occasional sharp spot on his face, or if it doesn't save that i've already blown up that little shed over there when i turn my ps3 off, i don't care! just put EVERYTHING in it decently and do nothing great, and it'll be the best game on earth.

Look at mercenaries 2, a FANTASTIC game, very much like what I've described, but it didn't sell 300,000 units even. why? because of the reviewer whores who reside on this very site and all other gaming boards. they ignored the fact that the map was giant, it had over 200 hours of gameplay, you could ride in the back of pick-up trucks with a shotgun, you could car bomb, you could pick stuff up with helis and drop it wherever, you could be disguised as another faction, pick up their giant tank, drop it in the ocean, then RAPE their base because it's defenseless. NOOOOOOOOOOO, these people looked at the poor graphics, all the trees using the same 10 or so animations when you blow them up, the waterfalls being animated bitmaps, and the INABILITY to fly airplanes. They looked at the horrible story that was supposed to comically make fun of all these horrible serious sandbox games. they looked at how you occasionally get glitched into a rock, WHO CARES! me and my friends have spent over 500 hours playing the online co-op of this thing, and it was designed for the PS2 and XBOX! (although released on both generations)

this post is a simple explanation of the whole maya 2012 thing. you see, december 12 is 4 days before my birthday, and as such, it is then i will begin preparing a big 18th birthday for myself. i have 4 days to do it, and my present to myself will be the world, and a new one each consecutive year. so, i have 4 days to take over the world.

DAY 1: on day one i will release my set of super-viruses that only take my deactivation key i have been growing on a virtual, computer virus version of evolution, if a virus destroys a imaginary virtual computer, it is sent to 1000 other imaginary computers with one change in code that is unique to each of the 1000, this way, the most powerful viruses eventually grow more powerful until they are unstoppable. they all have a deactivation code in them though. after crippling the internet and all other ways of communicating except word of mouth and telephone, i will tell the italian and russian mafia what i've done over the phone seperately, and offer to revive their computers, giving them a distinct advantage over the rest of the world if they become my private armies, with the promise to reward their leaders greatly. (but i don't tell either i have control of the other) i now have a large army under my control.

DAY 2: on day 2 i will discretely move my army to somalia, and take in the pirates and the ivory trading rings that are across africa. once i control these i have an incredible influx of cash, and will quietly buy out all the leaders of corrupt nations in africa. i will leave out the arabian and middle eastern areas as they contain many extremist rebels that will refuse assimilation. next i will tell the IRS that they will be allowed leadership of the province of ireland under my command if they cooperate. at noon i will reveal my mafia-pirate-smuggler-african intercontinental army, and use my russian forces to seize all russia, and replace communism with mock-communism (which will keep people well controlled, but allow me and anybody i promised extra luxury their luxury) meanwhile, my IRS forces, who people still do not know are under my control, will bomb all the major cities in europe, and i will seize all passages over the alps, thus controller italy easily. also at noon, the atlantic cable will be cut, keeping the united states unaware. my next move will be to simply take what is then my fleet of russian nuclear submarines that thanks to russia's former government are already stationed around the world, use one to take brazil, and place another off the coast of DC, with the others stationed around florida. now having a nuclear arsenal aimed at trillions of dollars in gold, space equipment, and government buildings, and control of brazil, i will send an ultimatum for a total of 150 billion US dollars from each country that wishes to remain independant, and buy out the rest of south america from my brazilian base, under the claim that my strike has caused mass deflation, and their countries are now worth mere hundreds. in a final move for day 2, i will take my incredible stock of money, and buy a majority share in microsoft and apple.

DAY 3: i deactivate all the viruses, but now have control of every computer in the world except linux, which means control of the united states servers for military operations and united states citizen databases. once i have control of the internet, complete information on every united states citizen, and control of all military operations, i will shut down united states military radio relays across the globe, and send an email to every american citizen threatening mere identity theft if they do not overthrow the current us government, complete with PIN, social security, name, age, adress, and first date. with the united states government overthrown, i will assimilate barack obama, as he is really a very good leader, and make him my administrator of earth on my 19th birthday. i will offer north korea a social position above the united states and south korea, an offer they will not refuse, i will offer george bush's head to osama bin laden, and i will allow continued control of their nation as a province to china. at this point i control the entire world's nuclear arsenal, an over 50 million strong standing army, and enough power to make my mom let me buy M games.

DAY 4: i have a 50 million standing army and every nuclear weapon in the world, plus the world's strongest criminal organizations, hundreds of trillions of US dollars in my reserves, and all i have to do is threaten anybody that fights back with complete ballistic annihilation of their land, and isolated nuclear destruction of their entire population (has to be irradiated to keep my new land nice and radiation free) i will likely control the world by 9, as those who do not respond by 8 GMT will be bombed, and then i have the other 14 hours of the day to celebrate, and begin touring my realm. see you on the 30th of 2010 to find out how i take venus!

the only info i can find on this game is here on gamespot, it's ps3 exclusive, and has some of the best graphics i've ever seen, but it was announced at TGS 2008 and NOTHING has been said since. where'd it go? is it fps or RPG? i really want it to be FPS, simply because it looks like gears with better graphics and organic body armor instead of metallic.