f13.net

Because mine is bigger than yours.

(http://img226.imageshack.us/img226/4678/desktopfo8.jpg)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v231/lonestar627/Misc/desktop.jpg)

My PC is orange too.

(http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/1664/desktopiz7.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)

I used to have a really cluttered desktop and just recently wiped everything. Somehow it feels much nicer.

Ahh, shit. nm

Is that a PC running some kind of OS X graphic lookalike thingy?

Do you still play Lord of Destruction enough to warrant having a shortcut to it on your desktop?

I've got Objectdock (http://www.download.com/ObjectDock/3000-2341_4-10529607.html) and my taskbar is set to autohide, otherwise it's a standard XP setup.

I don't play on Battle.net. I play single player or with a couple friends of mine over TCP/IP games.

There are more amusing icons than D2LOD in these shots.  At least D2 had an ending.

I'll bite.

(http://iria.chem.uh.edu/f13/Desktop01.jpg)

Good girl.

(http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/3203/desktopzp8.jpg)

Desktop at work.

(http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/4060/deskwindv4.jpg) (http://img217.imageshack.us/my.php?image=deskwindv4.jpg)

(http://coeurdefeu.com/hosted/081306_desktop_th.jpg) (http://coeurdefeu.com/hosted/081306_desktop.jpg)

Clicky pic because I'm nice enough not to fuck up the forum size by posting a really huge image.  :-D

Home desktop. I'd have to censor all the interesting stuff from work.

(http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/3133/desktop082906fj0.th.jpg) (http://img242.imageshack.us/my.php?image=desktop082906fj0.jpg)

(http://img82.imageshack.us/img82/5696/untitled2fl7.jpg)

No wonder you have a fucking sty.  You got some chibi in it.

No, I'm not posting mine.  Multiple reasons.

You have thundercrotch.

If you hold it by the hilt and shout the catchphrase, it will grow longer.

(http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g194/floodcore/desktopF13.gif)

I'll spare you all a picture of the work desktop.  The IT nazis have us locked-down so just picture the standard windows blue screen with some shortcuts to folders, and icons for AutoCad, Beamcheck, MECCheck and StruCalc.

Woo!

(http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/9847/wallpaper117sz9.jpg)

Here's my home wallpaper. Note the engrish.

(http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y131/jwjones79/untitled1.jpg)

You would love my Etna resin statue.  :-D

I think mine looks the same as last time we did this.

(http://www.imageigloo.com/images/7160desktop.jpg)

Shame on you. That look was only cool on System 7.  :wink:

(http://static.flickr.com/89/229392286_4192701290_b.jpg)

Work desktop, cluttered and boring. Much like the home desktop, really. Web host cut down pixel size from 1650 across ;)

Morph, you can put the Applications folder in your desktop to cut down in icons, you can rt-click it and access the folder. You can also toss the file server link on the dock. I've got Apps, Server Apps, and the file server shortcut in descending order after the divider. And for shame with System Preferences, that's on the Apple menu :P

What I am using for my background. (http://ningen.nattoli.net/wallpapers/The-Melancholy-of-Haruhi-Suzumiya/)

You'll just have to imagine the blue Windows bar at the bottom, with 4 icons along the left side.

Etna's Interludes were my favorite non-combat related part of the game.

thumbnail so it doesn't destroy forums.

(http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/1079/desktopbj8.th.jpg) (http://img183.imageshack.us/my.php?image=desktopbj8.jpg)

They've already been sufficiently destroyed, don't you think?  :-P

Mines pretty boring right now:

(http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/7271/desktopdt3.jpg)

I liked the Venture Bros background, I need to go find one of those.

Yeah, I know all that stuff, its just habbit where it is from the time when I didnt know that stuff. Now that you remind me though, I might put the fileserver on my dock. Also, shame right back at ya, no Firefox?.

here's my boring desktop:

(http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/1045/boringdeskzv6.th.jpg) (http://img88.imageshack.us/my.php?image=boringdeskzv6.jpg)

I really need to change that wallpaper, it's been there for ages :)

It's in my apps folder, so it's accessible. I use Safari for 99% of browsing, Opera is on there because I was testing it a couple weeks ago. I do like Shiira and Camino best, I think. Camino > Firefox :P

Guess I should include my work desktop too, featuring my doggies. :)

(http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y131/jwjones79/desk2.jpg)

1, 2, 3... Aaaaawwwww.

The shot in the bottom left is like a MySpace picture. Over the head, only the face in focus.

I bet she's fat.

I am one of the herd.

(Censored area showing an icon to something I'm not supposed to tell people I have... or technically it's okay to tell people, but they frown on it and are trying to make it not okay, so I'm just not going to poke.)


(http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/6972/desktoptj1.jpg)

Y'know, looking at this, I use about 5 of the things on that desktop.  Should probably delete a few...

But then what would happen if I tried to find the invoice I sent for that fucking football copy writing project and I couldn't find it?  What then?  No, best to leave it there.

Maya Unlimited? Hope you bought that as a student :-D

Background image at work:

(http://mfrost.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/0404_800x600.jpg)

Yes.... "bought."

I was a student at the time, if that helps.

If there was any doubt before that you were a girl I think that would have settled it.

(http://www.yegolev.com/images/desktop_small.png) (http://www.yegolev.com/images/desktop.png)

Mine hasnt really changed since the last thread.

(http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/6884/desktop7cm.th.jpg) (http://img4.imageshack.us/my.php?image=desktop7cm.jpg)

Nerd.

I was going to change my start button to have my name in it, but thought that would be too vain.

(http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/6791/megwallcurrent2vx4.th.jpg) (http://img143.imageshack.us/my.php?image=megwallcurrent2vx4.jpg)





... what?

It would be cool if someone explained the joke.

That is never true.

Usually I have wacky desktop replacements at home, but been too busy with moving and whatnot.

(http://www.brokentoys.org/images/desktop-0906.jpg)

I hate having cluttered icons all over the place, so I sort out all my shortcuts into a taskbar menu.

NSFW. Just changing to a link until you can fix. (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v490/spaeschke/Desktop.jpg)

You wanna worksafe that,  bub?

Nah, not really.  Too much hassle going through the Photobucket hoops again, so a link is just fine.

Those lesbians have maxxed out your CPU resources.

Cool.

Fall from Heaven any good Lum? I've just been keeping to vanilla or sevomod, havent went full out on the fantasy mods.

It's still got some balance issues (the elves pwn thanks to being able to keep forests when improving; somewhat counteracted in later versions by having no siege equipment whatsoever) but overall has more "flavor" than vanilla and is surprisingly deep. The religions and races all play very differently.

Some examples:

The Orcs (Circle of Flame or whatever they're called) start out allied with barbarians, which is pretty huge as the barbs get some monstrous units very quickly (including a red dragon about 100 turns in). However, they can't keep any cities. They automatically raze everything they occupy. Orcs are hard to control!

The Kuriotate, which are pseudo-Byzantines, can only build 4 real cities. All their other cities are clamped as "settlements" which can only grow to 2 pop and can't build anything past a very limited set of improvements. However, those 4 cities have a development range of 4, not 3, which means they quickly become huge monstrosity cities. A civ tailor made for perfectionist builders.

There's a *harmful* religion called Cult of the Dragon. If it spreads to your cities, they LOSE culture. Enough culture lost, and they die off. Hope you have an inquisitior handy. Especially devastating if you take over a city with the cult active, as you probably just destroyed all their cultural improvements.

The magical system is pretty darned good, better than you'd expect from a Civ mod. Basically the mages that you build use Civ 4's levelling system, and as you level, you gain levels in magic schools (the schools you can level in are controlled by mana nodes that you own or trade for). Casters generally are support troops (heal spells, summoning units, etc.) and won't engage in combat directly, so the game gives them a small trickle of experience every turn (it does the same for heroes as well, which tend to be more melee specific although there are caster heroes as well). The AI does a fair to middling job of using magic, it seems; you fight quite a few summoned creatures.

The late game "thousands of units slowing things to a crawl" is counteracted somewhat by hard caps on high tier units. You can only build 4 paladins, 4 flurry archers, etc. There's also end-game spells such as "Genesis" which turns everything nice and forest green, perfect for all your elven archers to raise sudden havoc.

Basically if you've been jonesing for Master of Magic 2 this will work as a suitable replacement, even in its current incomplete state. Warning, though, startup takes a LONG time due to all the wacky scripting and new units.

The mod's only about 1/3 done, but still eminently playable. The developers are going through and giving each civ "chrome" as they progress; it's pretty obvious which civs are "done". The non-chrome civs work fine as AI opponents.

Sold!

Once I have more time on my hands I will definately have to look into this.  Thanks!

I thought Age of Wonders 2: Shadow Magic was a decent MoM2, but I'll be checking out that Civ4 mod!

Work machine(laptop, with secondary display)...  Smudged over some server names and other possibly sensative info, but you can see I keep a lot of garbage on my desktop.
(http://dslinux.dyndns.org/~raptor/pics/desktop.jpg)