Benie's General Blog

Garry has announced today that all files 1MB and over, will be downloaded through a torrent.
What the FUCK is he thinking?!?! He wants us to use the very thing piraters use! This is wrong. This… is just wrong.

Why can’t he use mirrors to host these large files through other sites? But I’m sure the authors of these downloads will probably be going to other places where a torrent is not required to download.

I don’t wanna feel like a pirate by getting these files. Sure it’s legal, but… what I’ve done using this program isn’t. I got the first two EP’s of Fallout 3 through it. Not to mention Webcam Max.
I vowed to never use a torrent for the rest of my life. And now Garry’s shoving it in my face that I HAVE to use this.

Bad thing. If I refuse to use it, that just means more speed for the others to use it. All I’ll be doing is declining myself to get these great files.
But I don’t give a shit. I made a promise and I’m putting my foot down.

They claim torrents are not the same as pirating. How? How are they not the same?
You download cracks — entire games, through torrents. And they say they aren’t the same? What about The Pirate Bay? All of their downloads you can get from the same program being used to download files from garrysmod.org.

Maybe I’ve just been listening to the people that say torrents are illegal. Though the torrents from garrysmod.org are not. But still, having to use a program that CAN download entire games, for free…illegally. And garry is promoting the use of torrents.

One thing I don’t agree to people that don’t like this; Some people claim you can get viruses. This is true, but this is why you have an up to date AntiVirus like mine to take care of these pests.
One thing’s for sure. When BeniesBuilds.com finally gets it’s shit together and turns into my idea, I won’t be using garrysmod.org to host our downloads.

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However, better news, another update to Gmod has been released. This fixes the crash when saving bug that was caused by the last update.
So now I can get back to work making contraptions.

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And on top of it all, I got banned for a week because of what I said about him fixing the Save Game feature in Gmod. Garry thought I was being an ass, which I wasn’t. So I just got done trying to reduce my ban to a day by saying I’m sorry. I just hope it doesn’t get me into deeper trouble.
If I get permabanned over this, I’m going to uninstall Gmod and tell all of my friends to do the same in retort. But… ehh. That won’t save anything.

So I tried out the EP. And of course it’s not perfect. Let me go over with you what I’ve learned so far about this EP;

First thing, you cannot turn an existing planet into an Adventure planet. All you can do is edit or create an Adventure planet in Space Stage, and it can only be played on in the Quick Play mode. How in the hell you’re able to play on Adventure planets that others have created in the Space stage, is beyond me.

2nd, you cannot fly around on an Adventure planet. You have an option of either Accepting or Denying the adventure. Basically, cannot go through the atmosphere on Adventure planets.

3rd, you can only go to Adventure planets when you get a quest to. However it’s not really official of this. Just it seems like it’s the only way.

4th, you can redo already completed adventures, but you’ll be restarting the whole thing. The only reason you would want to is if you care about beating your previous time, since you can’t gain anymore points from a completed adventure.

5th, you can cross the ocean on Adventure planets, and nothing will jump out of the water and eat you, unlike in Creature stage.

6th, cheats will not work on Adventure planets, because completed adventures are monitored. To explain better, adventures, when completed, the time is submitted online, and it would be… unfair, to cheat for a faster time. All I can say is “fuck you, EA” for this. I don’t give a shit about beating my time or someone else’s time.

And the final one, 7th, the Space Stage music is still as depressing as it was before. I was hoping they would have better music by now, then the “You’re all alone. This galaxy is huge…” feeling of that music.

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I want to add that I still don’t understand why EA did this with the way they made this EP not implement with Spore. But EA has done alot of stupid things, so there’s no surprise.
The EP is pretty much Spore as a whole, plus Galactic Adventures. Why didn’t they put this in the core instead of creating two games, I don’t know.

Overall, I’m finding this EP just as frustrating as the core game. I tend to like hanging around near my home planet, and only occasionally go out JUST a little bit and make a few trade routes.
The reason is I hate failure, and especially dieing. That’s why I attempt to scour the web for a cheat code or two. Anything that has to do with “unlimited health”, I’ll go for.

About three hours ago I’m trying to make ally with these warthog-like creatures, and they tell me to defeat the Grox invading one of their colony planets. I attempt to do it and fail because the fucking refillMotives cheat does not work on Adventure planets and so I die. I’m too much of a coward to find easier ones, which means going far away from the safety of my Dragon Empire.

I thought of that entry title all night when I finally made it to the Space Stage (again).
It seemed like it took hours in the Creature stage alone, looking for those damn bones that unlock parts.

Anyway, the reason I am disappoint, is the fact that EA was too lazy to put Spore’s EP into Spore. Instead they made a separate game with a separate .exe file that you have to run to access the EP.
It’s just like HL2’s Episodes. But I expected they would treat this like WoW, merging the EP into the core game. Couldn’t understand why there was two .exe files. Now I know.
Even The Sims’ series was like HL2’s Episodes.

I still wish you would beam down to your home planet or colony planet and hang out with your creatures. But apparently this idea didn’t go good with others that wanted more action — more choices to build and expand the community. They wanted you to stop being such a … home planet boy, and have the guts to go to other planets.
Looks like they got their wish with this EP.

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But what I wasn’t disappoint was in Tribal stage, I saw my created ship flying around. I was all “Holy shit! It’s my Pyro-GX!”, thinking it may’ve been a sign of what’s to come in my future.
Yeah… well. That’s all I have to say. .. Wait. Yeah I forgot to mention.

Something else. Looks like my lock up is trying to make another comeback, but it’s having one hell of a time to do it. I keep seeing, randomly, things on my screen disappearing and reappearing in a split second, like a flickering thing. However I’ve had no lock ups so far.

All day I’ve been wondering if I should get the EP, and also looking for a trainer.
Facepunch wouldn’t help me as that thread about Spore just keeps going on Page 2, and I rather not get yelled at for bumping it over and over. I knew people didn’t give a shit about it. So I needed to find a forum that’s around it.
I happened to find the Sporum. Spore’s official forum. Found out my old login works on the forum too. First thing I did was PM one of the mods if it’s OK to talk about trainers. I never got a reply. So I did a search and there was discussion about trainers.
So I thought of just making a chance and creating my first thread in that forum, asking them to make me buy the EP.

As usual, there was a few Spore fanboys, saying “Oh wow you should so get this thing! It’s so awesome!”, and then there was level-headed people telling me to not expect a miracle with this thing, and it’s not perfect.

Of course it’s not going to be the key that jump starts Spore to the way it was when it was announced, even though I didn’t even care about it until it got closer to release. But I already explained that in a much earlier blog post.

So they’re still not selling me over it, then I request once again to find a trainer. Doesn’t happen. Ok I have to shove it down their throats then.
I make a thread in the Spore General Discussion this time, asking specifically for a trainer.
Finally I had a response. Just not what I wanted to see. One saying that I’m better off using the dev cheats already in the game, as they should be what I want.
Now it’s been some time since I played Spore, so I forgot the cheats. Did a little search and began to remember something.
I remembered that day where I thought “I don’t need this trainer anymore. All it does is fuck up in Space Stage” when it came to having an invincible ship so I could kick ass, and it was a lie. I found out I could do better off without the trainer.

So with that said, I finally made my decision to get it. And was it a good idea to get that $40 in the bank. With tax it was $38 something.

So anyway, I got Spore and Galactic Adventures installed, and I’m going “Uhh.. how do I get the 1.05 patch?”
Lol… so I had to make another thread about that. Again, no response. As I wait I notice another thread where someone that had just updated to 1.05, about not being able to use one of the critical cheats I will be using.
I’m thinking “Oh boy… maybe I should stick with 1.04 for now” and wait for this person’s thread to be replied. It does, with the person saying there’s nothing wrong with the cheat.
So that’s comforting news. However it’s not responding to my thread.

I decide to look around Google, and boom, there was my answer; JUST RUN SPORE and you’ll have the patch for EADM users!

So I ran Spore, put in my login info, and sure enough, “A patch has been found. Wanna download it?”
So now I have the 1.05 patch. Wondering if my old dragon creature still existed, I search through Spore’s database.

I saw my attempt in making a Pyro-GX from Descent 1, and my original dragon creature before the Tribal stage. But not that one I made after someone made me a dragon creature that looks like my avatar.
I search my backups on my hard drives, no go. I must’ve deleted them thinking I would never play again.
Dammit. Now I’ll have to start over from the very beginning.