Olympics Schmolympics - Bring on the real games, Friday non Olympic games thread

[Gusington]

I have been playing 'Dodge the Lightning Bolts' all day and in between been playing 'Chef.' I also managed to purchase the new DLC for Shogun 2 and also got Unity of Command for half off. The list of games that I need to either begin or continue include:

Unity of Command
Shogun 2
Arma 2 Combined Ops
The Witcher 2
Take on Helicopters [and Hinds expansion]
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Warlock
Panzer Corps
Fallout New Vegas
NecroVision
Crusader Kings II
Northern Crusades
Endless Space
WH40K: DoW II and the expansions
Wing Commander Saga (free download based on Freespace 2 engine)
Toy Soldiers
Rise of Flight
Over Flanders Fields
Diablo III

God help me.

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

God damn your eyes! 

Get on the ArmA II server that DV8 so kindly set up.  I totally promise not to riddle you with the Ka-52's main gun and then see how far I can get your corpse to skip across the map by volleying rocket fire into it.  Totally....

[Gusington]

^Convincing. But I want to get in some practice time before becoming your plaything. And yes that's what she said.

[MarkShot]

Ah, I wanted to be playing games ... I truly did!

Instead I am testing software that sanitizes hard disks with US DoD 5220.22-M.  (To be followed by a disaster recover from NAS.)

All in preparation for shipping three PCs and that they may simply disappear.  Fun ... fun ... fun ...

[Bison]

Well that sounds...fun Mark. 

[Gusington]

What is up with serious work getting in the way of gaming? The horror...

[MarkShot]

Well, I totally wiped a drive up to DOD standards and recovered it.  Proof of concept complete.

No times for games tonight, but some book reading, at least.  Maybe tomorrow.

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I also solved another technical problem today ... how to get local copies of critical emails stored offline on your iPad.  (again more redundancy in case of hardware and cloud failures).

[Staggerwing]

Well, I totally wiped a drive up to DOD standards and recovered it.  Proof of concept complete.

How does that compare to what DBAN will do to your target HDD when you use it? I use DBAN before I sell a computer and I also use it when I buy a used computer, before installing a fresh OS.

[MarkShot]

There are a ton of free drive scrub programs, but nothing free that does single partitions.

I only wanted to do the SYSTEM and USER partitions. Things like GAME or MEDIA partitions could be left intact. Also, by not wiping the MBR, it makes the recovery somewhat easier.

So, after finding nothing free that met my needs, I bought the DOS pro version of:

http://how-to-erase-hard-drive.com/features.htm

[Gusington]

The Austrians are wiping the floor with me in my ETW campaign. In one turn they took two provinces from me, Croatia and Bulgaria. Then the Russians moved in and took Moldavia. Looks like ETW will remain winless for me :/

[Huw the Poo]

Do you ever win any game, Gus? :D

[Toonces]

All those games I bought during the Steam sale and I ended up going totally retro tonight with Jane's F/A-18 and V for Victory.  Crazy.

I think I got enough figured out with V for Victory to give the campaign a try tomorrow night.

[Staggerwing]

Which of the V for Victory campaigns are you thinking of playing? I've got V4V:Market Garden somewhere on a backup drive and every so often I attempt to figure it out.

[Gusington]

Sometimes I do win, but not often. I am no jenius[tm]. Last game I won was a Civ V Gods & Generals campaign as the British.

[Arctic Blast]

Decided on Fallout : New Vegas...but now I'm having crash problems. Maybe it's just a bugged save, otherwise I'll just uninstall and play something else. I have better things to do than figure out precisely how one specific game is bugging out when 50 others I could be playing likely aren't.  ::)