So after attempting some common fixes to get cinematics in Thief 1 & 2 working, both games now crash immediately upon the start of a cinematic, ugh. I thought of checking Wine's application database to see if they ran well since I already had Ubuntu installed, and they were both Platinum (the best rating).

So about 3-10 minutes after pulling up Wine's download page, I had everything installed and set to Windows 98 (Thief 1 & 2 are old :P). I popped my disc in, ran the autoplay executable via right-click->Run with Wine, installed, patched, ran the game, everything worked great :D. I didn't even remember to set the game to run on 1 CPU, and the movies and the game itself all worked just fine and without lag, though it is old so it doesn't take a beefy PC to run it well.

I saw a YouTube video that mentioned this site. It has some embedded flash audio players that let you hear various hard-drives failing due to various problems.

If you're like me, you'll probably know when something's up with your hard-drive anyway, but the site is still useful.

We watched Sunshine a few hours ago, and it was amazing.

Some people complain about the end of the movie, but it was just a bit different, it wasn't bad at all, and it definitely didn't change my opinion of the movie for the worse.

Sunshine is a movie that sticks with you for a while. I highly suggest checking it out :).

Hello, just stopped by to say that I just spent 00:47:43 beating the first mission in Thief 1 o_O, that place is a freaking maze man.

Also, here's a pointless list of games I can remember buying after Left 4 Dead :P. Here we go!

• Dark Messiah of Might and Magic
• FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage (a FlatOut 2 remake)
• Thief Collection (UK) (everything but Thief Gold)

That was shorter than I expected, but oh well!

I'm kinda busy at the moment--trying to do a full backup among other things--but I should be free soon, and hopefully returning with some cool things :).

NVIDIA ForceWare v181.20 has been released, it includes PhysX System Software v8.10.13. Get it here.

I just wanted to wish everyone a Happy New Year :).

Steam is having a holiday sale right now, everything is 10-75% off and the sale ends on January 2nd, so get what you want now!

Here ya go.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Left 4 Dead

After playing through the No Mercy campaign in single player, I was disappointed. But after playing through the next two campaigns (Death Toll and Dead Air) in multi-player, and actually using my mic for once, this is an awesome game :D.

Half-Life turned 10 yesterday. Congratulations VALVe! As a gift, VALVe has put it on-sale for $0.98 until the 21st at 12:01 PM PST, which is 3:01 PM EST if I'm correct.

Here's a link to it's Steam Store page.