Been away for a week or so. How's the D patch working out?

Howdy. Took a well needed break from EVERYTHING (I basically sat on my man bits playing a video game for a week straight... lol) and am feeling quite refreshed after a very trying year. I noticed in my absence we got a new patch and a spanky new forum.
 
So how's the patch working for everyone? I see far less issues being reported with "D" in the thread titles than there were with the C patch. Just checking to see if I missed anything... good or bad.
 
As far as the forum... it looks nice but now I have to allow googleapis in NoScript to make it work. Beepster doesn't like letting google watch him do his interwebbing. :-/
 
Hope you have all been well.

Ah yes. I saw that when it first got posted but it only had a couple comments at the time. Thanks. Just want to know what to keep an eye out for. Cheers.

Yeah, mostly seems like there aren't any big things so the smalls tuff is getting noticed. My one concern is the audiosnap thread from he other day but that doesn't sound like new weirdness and I've had multiple reports that AS is indeed working better in X3 in general. I'll be trying it out in the next couple days after I totally clean up my apartment. It's getting a little skank in here. ;-p

Grem
What VG was you wasting time on?

Hi, Grem. GOG.com had Fallout 1, 2 and Tactics for free a couple weeks ago (I posted a thread about it in the CH but the special is over now). I don't usually play a lot of games and I'd never really played that type of RPG thing before but Fallout 1 just totally sucked me in and blackholed about a week of my time. Great game. I really need some chill out time it seems. I tend to forget that even though I don't have a real job anymore that I do need to take some time off from things every now and again. These past few years has been nothing but moving, studying and wrangling with doctors/bureaucrats.
 
Also my neighbors seem to have gone away that week so it was niiiiice and quiet. I feel about twenty times uncrazier. Now it's time to loony myself up again (he says as his phone starts ringing off the hook).

Geez sharke... do we live in the same building? lol

lawp
fallout ftw

I'm scared to install the other two because then you guys might not see me until spring. lulz

Cool. I didn't know there were FPS ones. That's more what I'm used to but this was a very well done RPG even if it's somewhat dated. The list of voice actors was pretty impressive too. Richard Moll as Cabbot made me laugh. I knew I recognized that voice from somewhere. Heh.
 
Also I guess this thread goes to show how well X3d is working. Instead of complaints and bug reports we're talking about video games and noisy neighbors. ;-)

Man ya'll are reminding me what it was like to live in an apartment.

I love RPG's. But I can't play them. It's all I think about until I finish the game!! I get so sucked up in it!!

then avoid skyrim at all costs!

lawp
then avoid skyrim at all costs!

Grem used to RPG but then he took an arrow to the knee.

@sharke... Yeah, I've been researching the Green Glue, Quiet Glue, Quiet Rock, STC ratings, soundproofing codes for residential party walls, etc since I realized how bad it was. I used to do renos (part of how I screwed up my body) but hadn't really heard of the Green Glue/Quietrock stuff until recently. I will be insisting on it and possibly getting them to build a second wall with aluminum studs in the bedroom because of the impact noise (they didn't even stagger the damned studs or if they did they did it wrong). However I will not be paying a penny for this crap because this is a big company who gets grants to build these buildings and my rent is pretty darned high. I'm a really good tenant and hopefully that has become apparent over the past few months. I'm ultra quiet, the unit is well cared for, I'm like a ghost most of the time but when I am out in the halls I'm super nice to everyone and they get their rent automatically. It really is a nice apartment but the sound issue is just nuts and as far as I can tell not up to code.
 
The supposed code for party walls in residential buildings is STC 45-50 which means you can barely hear the sub bass of a cranked stereo, loud voices are muffled but all high freq stuff is non existent. I can hear every word that is said in the next room and can hear stuff all the way on the other side of their unit. That type of noise penetration is like STC 35 or lower which if you look at the charts is basically like being on the other side of a completely uninsulated wall with non staggered wood studs (like an interior wall in an old house).
 
My old place was sh*t as far as things being broken and the place was a dump (even though they told me it would be completely reno'd and I know the other units were immaculate) and there were some seriously frightening people in that building BUT it had concrete firewalls between the units. I really couldn't stay there but the guy upstairs used to SCREAM his head off and the guy next to me had a huge rottweiler that would bark and I could barely hear them at all. Frankly I think they were just waiting for all the old people to die off and the other weirdo tenants to default on their leases so they could turn it into condos (waterfront property). IDK... just my luck I guess but I do like the place. I just need to get some sleep and have a little bit more privacy yanno? I'd like to invite some of my old girlfriends over and don't really feel like putting on a show for the whole damned building. lol

dwardzala
Good luck with the company and the noise abatement.
 
Have you tried ear plugs to sleep with.  It may help you block out the low level nighttime stuff.

Thanks. Yeah I keep a set of yellow safety plugs beside the bed if it seems like they're gonna pull an all nighter. Still doesn't help when they smash into the wall or are going completely nuts but that doesn't happen that often. My main problem though is because of my crummy health just having my sleep interrupted for even a few minutes screws me right up the next day. I have no idea how I became such a delicate flower especially after all the years on the road and living/sleeping in absolutely chaotic environments.
 
I'm not too keen on sleeping with ear plugs in in case of an emergency and the fact they tend to screw up my ears. Those yellow safety thingies aren't exactly the most comfortable buggers and I find it makes it hard to mix the next day. Like my ear drums are throbbing and everything sounds tinny and weird. I gotta see what amazon has for comfort plugs. I just have these leftover from my construction days.
 
Whatever... it hasn't been that bad lately so I'm hoping maybe they realized there's a dude sleeping next door. Still I myself have been really altering my lifestyle so I'm not annoying others with MY noise and that's not cool. For the rent I pay I should be able to expect some reasonable amount of privacy. That's what gets me the most. I could save a fortune by having roommates but I don't want roommates for exactly this reason. As it is though I feel like I've got people living in my bedroom. Blurgh!
 
Cheers and thanks for the kind thoughts.
 
Man... this really is OT. What will the forum do without problems to report?
 
lol