Eengstro on April 25th, 2008

A test of Wordpress 2.5’s new Gallery functionality, using my favorite subject as of late: Team Fortress 2 rendering glitches!
Sigh.

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Eengstro on April 25th, 2008

Stuff gets broken.
Trying to upload my latest and greatest TF2 glitch pics results in an “HTTP error”:

OK so far…

Bummer, denied! Thank you so much, asshole.
By the way, I had to upload these screenshots by hand with an FTP client.
Update: It looks like the problem was with the Bad Behavior plugin. Upgrading it to the latest [...]

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Eengstro on March 26th, 2008

Maybe I should start a new Gallery dedicated to Team Fortress 2 rendering glitches. I saw these glitches tonight:
This engineer’s dispenser is showing the same type of glitching that I’ve seen before.
This is a new one: There should be water in the bottom of this sewer. Instead, all we see is wireframe polygons [...]

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Eengstro on March 8th, 2008

As a followup on my previous post, I managed to capture more Team Fortress rendering glitches last night.
The polygons in this sniper are all facing in odd directions. Notice the two long, thin polygons going down and to the left.
This sniper’s head and rifle butt seem fine, but the rest of him is [...]

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Eengstro on March 4th, 2008

I’ve been seeing more and more rendering glitches in Team Fortress 2 on my ATI X800 XT recently. The glitches always happen to characters or buildings only; the environment always renders correctly. Polygons will either stretch to infinity (sometimes as few as one, or every polygon in a character model), or they’ll “fan”, facing [...]

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Eengstro on September 7th, 2007

I’m standing in the local Apple store, typing this entry on a MacBook. Next to me is a new “classic” iPod. The new iPods have a “clock” feature, where you can enter multiple locations, and it will display the time at each location, side-by-side.
This is a nifty feature, except for one problem: during Daylight Saving [...]

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Eengstro on August 11th, 2007

Sit and admire one of the more amusing/frustrating error messages I’ve received from MySpace:

MySpace is an example of what happens when you release a half-assed, hacked together demo to the world instead of a fully-designed and tested product (i.e. something you actually thought through beforehand). You have to keep fixing it, and yet it never [...]

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Eengstro on July 24th, 2007

I went to visit Moleskinerie today, and found a GoDaddy “parked” page in its place. WTF?
Update: Apparently a large power outage in San Francisco has knocked out a major data center. Other websites, including Craigslist and NetFlix, are also down.

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Eengstro on June 10th, 2007

I witnessed my first Windows Vista bluescreen today. The box was in the middle of being put into Sleep mode when it was awakened again, and blam: a bluescreen. (It could be said that we had a vista of a bluescreen…) Unfortunately, the bluescreen didn’t stay up long enough for me to actually read it [...]

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Eengstro on April 19th, 2007

Saw MySpace give the following error pukage this morning. Sheesh.

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