| December 25, 2003 - 4:26pm PST |
Happy Holidays!
Merry Xmas, Happy Chanukah, Feliz Navidad, Gung Hoy Fat Choy, Sie werden sich hinsetzen! Sie werden ruhig sein! Sie werden nicht beleidigen Deutschland! (FG reference :P )
-JP
| December 10, 2003 - 11:33am PST |
I wanna update with some TFC/HL news but geez, it's been dead! In the meantime, here's a link to my collection of wacky Japanese flash clips!
-JP
| October 18, 2003 - 09:53am PST |
Put the ol' "SHOWDOWN" TFC server back into the lineup. Now you have a place to go again when someone in TFC insults your manhood!! As always, it's Steam-free. Have fun!
-JP
| October 09, 2003 - 06:14pm PST |
Alrighty, gonna keep the HL2 speculation and rumor down to a minimum so uhh.. time to change the subject! Max Payne 2 is gold! BUY IT OR ELSE! (got nothin)
-JP
| October 08, 2003 - 05:06pm PST |
A expected, another chapter in the Half Life 2 tragedy! Taken directly (html code and all) from Planet Half-Life:
Thanks to REDDRUMZ for the news! Oh yeah, and be sure to vote in their poll!
-JP
P.S. I seriously doubt that I'm gonna run a HL2 server now... As a HLDS operator, I've watched for years as Valve gave us the cold shoulder in times of need (hlds exploits, cheats, de-prioritizing their non-cash cow mods, denying support to groups that try to make a difference like punkbuster, etc, etc, etc.) and this is just the straw the breaks the camel's back. Man... This story is very very easy to believe after dealing with them and their broken promises for this long. Long live id Software!
| October 07, 2003 - 04:15pm PST |
Another update on the never ending disaster that is HL2:
Forget the April release date!
Out of respect for the developers, (NOT Gabe) please don't give out links to any builds if you come across em. You can debate the political, economic, and moral whatever implications of this, but no linky. Lemme rephrase that - DO NOT tell people where to get it. It's not cool and you WILL get the wrath of the mods.
Thanks,
-JP
P.S. This is why Valve's stolen DRM bloatware is dangerous.
P.P.S. You're not supposed to look at the other pictures on the site. So don't.
| October 04, 2003 - 06:26pm PST |
HAPPY BIRTHDAY THOTH!!!
(Sorry dudes... only Thoth gets the front page star treatment!!)
-JP
| October 03, 2003 - 06:04am PST |
I was digging around last night for additional information regarding yesterday's big scoop and its impact on HL2 when I found this trainwreck of a story:
Steam spoofing! Fun!
The fiasco continues
...After reading those links, check this out. It gets a lot better, trust me. Mental note: NEVER install Steam. You know that wonderful piece of bloatware just got a whole lot more secure *cough* now that the Steam auth/source code was included in the source theft. Remember kiddies - steam is designed to download "content" to your system. Yay!
Oh, and on an intersting note, it's been reported many times that the "Source" engine was built from scratch. Hm. Funny.. There sure is a lot of Q1 code all up in this thing... Sigh~
-JP
Additional thoughts: Man, Valve seems to be in serious disarray. I'm genuinely starting to feel sorry for em... Well, its devs, not really Gabe (You can thank him for steam's existance).
| October 02, 2003 - 10:47pm PST |
Ripped straight from the headlines of Slashdot and the Shack:
Half-Life 2 Source Leak
Ever have one of those weeks? This has just not been the best couple of days for me or for Valve. Yes, the source code that has been posted is the HL-2 source code. Here is what we know:
1) Starting around 9/11 of this year, someone other than me was accessing my email account. This has been determined by looking at traffic on our email server versus my travel schedule.
3) For the next week, there appears to have been suspicious activity on my webmail account.
4) Around 9/19 someone made a copy of the HL-2 source tree.
5) At some point, keystroke recorders got installed on several machines at Valve. Our speculation is that these were done via a buffer overflow in Outlook's preview pane. This recorder is apparently a customized version of RemoteAnywhere created to infect Valve (at least it hasn't been seen anywhere else, and isn't detected by normal virus scanning tools).
6) Periodically for the last year we've been the subject of a variety of denial of service attacks targetted at our webservers and at Steam. We don't know if these are related or independent.
Well, this sucks. What I'd appreciate is the assistance of the community in tracking this down. I have a special email address for people to send information to, helpvalve@valvesoftware.com. If you have information about the denial of service attacks or the infiltration of our network, please send the details. There are some pretty obvious places to start with the posts and records in IRC, so if you can point us in the right direction, that would be great. We at Valve have always thought of ourselves as being part of a community, and I can't imagine a better group of people to help us take care of these problems than this community.
Gabe
Sigh~ I've seriously done enough Valve bashing for one week... just come to your own conclusions.
-JP
| September 30, 2003 - 12:04pm PST |
Yay! It's Half Life 2 day! Oh wait, no it isn't. "Press release, suckers!"
Here's a unbiased and accurate review of Steam!
-JP
| September 26, 2003 - 12:22am PST |
Half Life 2 funnies:
Delay of Game - A Half-Life 2 Film
Delay of Game Part II - A Half-Life 2 Film
-JP
| September 24, 2003 - 5:25am PST |
Juicy Half Life 2 news! Straight from the Shack (Valve's response to delay rumors):
The previously announced September 30th release date for Half-Life 2 is being pushed back. We are currently targeting a holiday release, but do not have a specific "in-store" date to share at this time. We will release that information as soon as we have confirmed a new date.
Hmm... Maybe because Steam is still hopelessly BROKEN? Anyways, Max Payne 2 is still scheduled to hit its release date of October 15th!
-JP
| September 23, 2003 - 6:11am PST |
Haven't updated for a while... here's what's new:
-JP
| August 29, 2003 - 6:09pm PST |
Quick update - Upgraded the NS server to version 2.01d beta earlier this morning. Comments? Suggestions? You know where to go.
-JP
| August 27, 2003 - 12:46am PST |
Figure I'll actually go outside for a few minutes today to experience this whole Mars madness deal... Well, here it is in all its glory!:
-JP
| August 21, 2003 - 12:57pm PST |
According to the Gematriculator, this page is:
and 
Daym! Didn't see that coming!
-JP
| August 1, 2003 - 12:05am PST |
NS 2.0 is out!
Get it here. (Die fileplanet!.)
-JP
| August 17, 2003 - 1:53am PST |
Here's the list of changes in the current NS 2.01d beta (Straight from the source):
This is still a work in progress, but I thought I'd post it here to see what you guys think. This list includes all the changes that are being kept from the previous 2.01 betas. Also note that this includes only the balance changes, not exploits, bugs or new features.
2.01d
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O Electricity cost reduced from 30 to 20
O Electricity research time reduced from 60 to 30
O Electricity range increased from 90 to 110 (to prevent exploiting)
O Offense chamber health reduced from 1150 to 1000
O Onos can no longer redeem while digesting a player
O Added "parasite switch fun" back
O Lowered marine upgrade costs from 30/40/50 to 20/30/40
O Reduce healing spray from 16 to 13
O Increase grenade damage from 110 to 125
O Fixed problem where specs can be heard talking before game start in tourny mode (untested)
O Fixed problem where dead players can sometimes be heard (untested)
O Fixed CURL timeout problems (untested)
O Hide opposing team score in tournament mode so you can't see how many resources towers they have (untested)
O New collision code to prevent players from getting stuck in structures (thanks Max!)
O Fixed problem where hera holoroom double node didn't build properly
O Fixed bug where being webbed and then devoured pulls out your weapon while inside the Onos
O Umbra blocks 2 out of 3 bullets (down from 3 out of 4 in 2.0)
O Increased bilebomb force from 600 to 800
O HMG does piercing damage (still needs something else here)
O Movement chambers can only be +used to teleport to an active (not building) hive
O Increased hive cost from 35 to 50 (maybe 45, can't decide)
O Reduced command station cost from 25 to 20
O Reduced command station build time from 20 to 15
O Each level of celerity now increases speed by 25, down from 35 (it's now back to the 1.04 level)
O Fixed blinking marine HUD artifact when switching weapons with lag
O Leap reduced in speed by 20%
O Shotgun clip and reserve reduced from 10/50 to 8/40
O Lowered volume of cloaking and uncloaking sounds via cloaking upgrade (they are only a third as loud as they used to be. Might also remove the sounds entirely.)
O Sentries and offense chambers now do "light" damage. Light damage does half damage to HAs and Oni.
...Sounds good to me! HURRY UP WITH IT ALREADY!! (Sorry, the constant marine losses are getting to me... patience, Jigglypuff, patience...)
-JP
| August 12, 2003 - 1:28am PST |
Quick update: uhh.. Sprite cans have a $10 off coupon to Universal Studios! Yay! (I haven't been there since they had the liftable A-Team van) Crap, I'm running out of things to talk about again~!
-JP
| August 1, 2003 - 12:05am PST |
NS 2.0 is out!
Get it here. (Die fileplanet!.)
-JP
| July 31, 2003 - 12:05am PST |
Thanks to Kurt for this bit of news! (Taken straight from the NS site):
:: NS 2.0 server released!
"The NS 2.0 dedicated server has been released! This won't let you play NS, but it will let you host a dedicated server. Both Windows and Linux are supported. Go to the NS downloads page for mirrors, or try our sister site Readyroom.org for other links. More mirrors are being added constantly, so try back shortly if you're unable to get through.Releasing the dedicated server early will make sure there are plenty of servers for everyone to play on tomrrow night, when NS 2.0 is released. Many thanks to all the server operators who spend their time and money to provide a free place for the whole community to play."
You're quite welcome! Thanks for making such a cool mod! Anyways, working on the NS 2.0 server right now... It should be up by the time the client binaries hit the mirrors. Oh yeah, and I'll also try to have a copy of the client up here because as we all well know, fileplanet sucks. ftp.cdrom.com forever! Not really.-JP
| July 29, 2003 - 1:45am PST |
Went with a small group to myevilplan's (belated) birthday gathering at Medieval Times this past weekend. Here's a few shots from the event:
The fog rolls in
The king telling the general to STFU
Go black and white knight!
B&W knight greeting his rabid loyal minions
It's good to be the king
...Couldn't take too many because our he-wench spilled soda on my camera so it was MIA 15 minutes into the show. Dried it off and couldn't turn it on til the next day. Bastard. Anyways, it was a pretty cool show til the very end - When the red knight defeated the traitor, the king proclaimed, "Raise the glorious flag of the new kingdom!" ...and instead of raising a flag with the typical griffin/dragon/castle emblem, they had him gallop around the arena with an American flag! YAY! The AMERICA KNIGHT WON! WOO! I mean, geez... that's almost as bad as when I went to Paris in Vegas and saw the American flag on every lamppost, pole, and wall in the casino. Not a single French flag was to be found, not even on the Eiffel Tower. Go America knight! Go freedom fries! YAAAY!
-JP
For the sarcasm impaired: Not a "hippie commie pinko." The USA is A-OK with me~ That was just plain tacky.
| July 25, 2003 - 5:17am PST |
Alright, to keep things interesting around here, I'm going to start talking about normal, mundane, non-HL things and post em up here. I guess I'll start using my digicam more and give you a little insight into the life of the average white collar worker living here in LA. Maybe you guys might find it interesting...? Beats me. It's better than nothing (I hope). Here we go!
Ummm.. It's almost 5:30am PST and I'm here at work. Been here since 11pm last night and when I get off at 7am, my weekend will begin. Checking out myevilplans site... damn, that boy never updates. Ugh. Already out of things to say. I want to go home already~ Here's a picture of me updating this page:
For the perceptive: yeah, that's my real name. A whois on panduck could have told you that! I'll put more stuff up when I can think of something interesting to write about.
-JP
| July 4, 2003 - 12:04am PST |
HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!
-JP
The server's pretty damned unstable lately. I think it's a hardware problem but since it craps out randomly, I'm having a hard time nailing it down. If it continues to act up, I'll move the web content to the secondary server(http://tfc2.panduck.com). Your patience is appreciated while I figure out what the hell is going on. FYI, added a DoD server!
-JP
As promised, I got off my lazy ass and uploaded a bunch of E3 pics and videos! Go
I'll try to explain some of the pictures when I get a chance. Updated this stuff with only 2 hours of sleep. Argh. Oh yeah, be sure to check out the blackhawk video :)
-JP
The countdown begins!
See you all there!
-JP
Your man on the inside:
Mwahahaha~! :)
-JP
Here's a little something for the JR regulars: Mystery Link
Something about NDAs and stuff so uhh.. get it while you can :)
-JP
Drumroll please...
Check this out:
Unless you're a dirty canuck. J/K. We really do love the 51 state! :)
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Finally, some real news around here :)
-JP
| April 5, 2003 - 2:35am PST |
End of an era...
Shut down the 12 and 32 player Jigglyrooms seeing as how they've been dead for a while now. If the NS team can get the CPU usage of the NS servers down considerably in 1.1, I'll probably start up a BF1942 JR :) How does that sound? Stick a fork in TFC, it's 3 years old!
-JP
| March 27, 2003 - 1:15am PST |
"You know that times are strange when the best rapper in the world is white, the best golfer in the world is black, the Americas cup is held by landlocked Sweden, the French are accusing the Americans of arrogance and Germany is steadfastly refusing to go to war."
...Thought that quote was pretty amusing~ (Nothin going on in the world of TFC)
-JP
| March 7, 2003 - 1:37am PST |
Changed the IP of the 32 player ALL 2FORT Jigglyroom to:
64.14.241.94
...Don't just all RUSH IN NOW! If you can't get in, keep trying! [/sarcasm] :)
-JP
| March 02, 2003 - 12:52am PST |
It's been a while since I promised this, but here's a video tour of the old facility where the Jigglyroom was located (For those that couldn't attend the guided tour). It's not the most exciting stuff but gives you an idea as to what kind of place the box gets hosted in. The facility's been decomissioned for a while now so I'm guessing my NDA has expired. So without further delay, the Jigglyroom's old home!:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7
Note: Unless you have the mjpeg video codec, you'll probably have to view these with Quicktime...
Unfortunately, I can't say much about the Jigglyroom's current home but imagine going forward through time~ Think uhh.. the Death Star! :)
-JP
| February 28, 2003 - 10:52pm PST |
Like the McDonald's McRib sandwich, it's BACK! ...You all know what I'm talking about... the 32 player ALL 2Fort Jigglyroom!!! Spammers, trolls, and noobs unite! To take part in this orgy of chaos, point your TFC client here:
216.34.201.185:27015
Have fun!
-JP
| February 26, 2003 - 3:20pm PST |
Notice: If the http://tfc.panduck.com site goes down, redirect yourselves to http://tfc2.panduck.com. It's the new backup site in case any server/DNS issues pop up. REMEMBER IT!!! :)
-JP
| February 24, 2003 - 7:32pm PST |
OUCH. Sorry about the downtime with the website. The DNS servers took a dump and made this site unaccessible (it was still up though!). Submitted a correction to NetSol and it took em about a day to update the panduck DNS record. That's pretty much it. Err.. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming!
Btw, what'll happen to Evan and Zora? Tune in to tonight's Joe Millionaire to find out! (That's right. I watch JM religiously. No shame here!)
-JP
| February 19, 2003 - 5:56pm PST |
Geez, the TFC scene is s-l-o-w. Soooo... to keep things interesting, here's the latest fashion craze coming out of Japan:
...Guess where I'm going on my next vacation? Mwahaha... Oh yeah, these pics AREN'T FOR THE PRUDE :)
-JP
| January 22, 2003 - 8:19am PST |
Bored? Triumph has the cure! (SFW)
-JP
| January 16, 2003 - 8:10am PST |
Graphics Junkies - The GeForceFX is finally available for preorder! Clicky.
Update: Steam 2.0 comes out today! You know what this means! Drumroll please!!
Update2: Steam 2.0 has officially been canceled! Yay Valve!
-JP
| January 8, 2003 - 11:03am PST |
Light Touch! Invincible Wheel! Wonder Screw! :D
(Questionable content removed due to someone objecting to it)
-JP
| January 1, 2003 - 1:05am PST |
Happy New Year!
In the spirit of the New Year, here's another wonderful holiday gift for all the homies. Family Guy is the greatest TV series EVER btw ;)
-JP
