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Author:  Grim... [ Mon Aug 25, 2008 18:07 ]
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Now that my PC has taken up residence in my living room, I want something better than 3D pipes.
What is there?
Author:  ElephantBanjoGnome [ Mon Aug 25, 2008 18:19 ]
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I haven't bothered with a screensaver in any form since, oooh, 1998. I'm much happier with the monitor going on standby.
Author:  Dr Lave [ Mon Aug 25, 2008 18:20 ]
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A turned off monitor and saving the planet? You oil burning money mad man.

But cycling through a selection of your best photo's would be nice for a little while at least.
Author:  AceAceBaby [ Mon Aug 25, 2008 18:32 ]
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Hahaha. I just this weekend finally got my HTPC all set up, and an hour ago I was watching the pipes on the screen thinking "there must be some kind of cool swirly telly screensaver somewhere."
Author:  Grim... [ Mon Aug 25, 2008 18:39 ]
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Yeah, that's what I thought. I like the Vista ones, but I'm on XP now.
Author:  Dr Lave [ Mon Aug 25, 2008 18:44 ]
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Its been ages since I've used a windows pc, but I think I remember that Darwin Pond (which is a little artificial life program where 'swimmers' evolve and eat 'food') has a screen saver version that was awesome.
Author:  tossrStu [ Mon Aug 25, 2008 18:49 ]
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http://tomspeirs.com/mamescreensaver/
Author:  Grim... [ Mon Aug 25, 2008 18:54 ]
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It has been a while - it runs in a 640x480 window :)
Author:  Pundabaya [ Mon Aug 25, 2008 19:32 ]
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EVE Online.
Author:  metalangel [ Mon Aug 25, 2008 19:35 ]
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Because After Dark doesn't work in OS X so far as I've been able to determine, Mowin' Boris has been succeeded by Freefall, which is a mesmerising simulation of the Earth and all the manmade satellites speeding overhead. It has to be seen to be believed.

But, you sound like you're on Windows, so there's always the classic Fallout Screensaver or the Windows port of the OS X Flurry screensaver.
Author:  chinnyhill10 [ Mon Aug 25, 2008 19:36 ]
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Grim... wrote:
Now that my PC has taken up residence in my living room, I want something better than 3D pipes.
What is there?


Is there any point to screensavers in this day and age?
Author:  Grim... [ Mon Aug 25, 2008 19:39 ]
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To look pretty?
Author:  Grim... [ Mon Aug 25, 2008 19:43 ]
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MetalAngel wrote:
Fallout Screensaver

Page load error :(
Author:  metalangel [ Mon Aug 25, 2008 20:02 ]
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Oh! Try this link for it.
Author:  JamesOff [ Mon Aug 25, 2008 20:34 ]
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I like Electric Sheep.
Author:  Sir Taxalot [ Mon Aug 25, 2008 21:04 ]
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I have the photo collage screensaver in Vista, it's pretty neat.

The google images one I use in XP is quite good too. It has some lovely stock photos, I've not bothered pointing it towards my own piccies yet, I don't really use XP for much at the moment.
Author:  Grim... [ Mon Aug 25, 2008 21:15 ]
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JamesOff wrote:
I like Electric Sheep.

So do I, but I don't really want it using up bandwidth.

I'm never using a 'show my photos' screensaver ever again.
Author:  AceAceBaby [ Mon Aug 25, 2008 21:55 ]
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Grim... wrote:
I'm never using a 'show my photos' screensaver ever again.


"Special" folder and in-laws round for afternoon tea incident? :DD
Author:  JamesOff [ Mon Aug 25, 2008 22:05 ]
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Grim... wrote:
So do I, but I don't really want it using up bandwidth.


I've not noticed it consuming bandwidth particularly. It mainly downloads a sequence of jpegs if I remember correctly. I ultimately stopped running it because it made my computer run the fans hard when I wasn't using it :)
Author:  AceAceBaby [ Mon Aug 25, 2008 22:08 ]
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That flurry one is pretty soothing so I went with that.
Author:  Dudley [ Mon Aug 25, 2008 22:10 ]
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JamesOff wrote:
I like Electric Sheep.


The electric Welshman plugin was less successful.
Author:  Grim... [ Mon Aug 25, 2008 22:33 ]
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AceAceBaby wrote:
Grim... wrote:
I'm never using a 'show my photos' screensaver ever again.


"Special" folder and in-laws round for afternoon tea incident? :DD


Scarily, that's 100% accurate.
Author:  ElephantBanjoGnome [ Mon Aug 25, 2008 22:34 ]
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ohmy. Don't you keep that shit hidden in the depths of your hdd?
Author:  Ian Osborne [ Tue Aug 26, 2008 13:57 ]
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Grim... wrote:
Scarily, that's 100% accurate.

Be more specific! :D
Author:  Grim... [ Tue Aug 26, 2008 22:19 ]
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Wanna see the photo?
Author:  Shin [ Tue Aug 26, 2008 23:04 ]
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Would it be wrong to say yes?
Author:  Tmuk [ Wed Aug 27, 2008 15:26 ]
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You mean you didn't instantly delete it?
I think my Mum still thinks I'm some sort of deranged pervert because she found a porno under my bed when I was 15.
Author:  MrChris [ Wed Aug 27, 2008 15:55 ]
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My parents used to stay up and watch Eurotrash. Comfortable viewing, that.
Author:  MrChris [ Wed Aug 27, 2008 16:09 ]
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Image
Author:  chinnyhill10 [ Wed Aug 27, 2008 16:14 ]
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Saw this one for myself way before it was all over the internet:

Image
Author:  devilman [ Wed Aug 27, 2008 16:17 ]
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Mr Chris wrote:
My parents used to stay up and watch Eurotrash. Comfortable viewing, that.


Ditto for my parents. It was one of their favourite programmes, despite it never having subtitles - although it was probably better that way anyway.
Author:  chinnyhill10 [ Wed Aug 27, 2008 16:17 ]
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Grim... wrote:
Wanna see the photo?


Was it you at a Dungeons and Dragons convention?

Image
Author:  MrChris [ Wed Aug 27, 2008 16:18 ]
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devilman wrote:
Mr Chris wrote:
My parents used to stay up and watch Eurotrash. Comfortable viewing, that.


Ditto for my parents. It was one of their favourite programmes, despite it never having subtitles - although it was probably better that way anyway.

Indeed. Still, one's parents watching it with you is one sure fire way to get me to say "no" to watching naked ladies. The bastards. No telly upstairs, either.
Author:  metalangel [ Wed Aug 27, 2008 16:24 ]
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Harry Potter and the homemade compilation of clips from Eurotrash
Author:  Tmuk [ Wed Aug 27, 2008 16:38 ]
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I used to hate it whenever anything steamy came on the TV while I was watching it with my parents. I'd immediately position myself so that I couldn't see their faces and they couldn't see mine to lessen the embarrassment factor. Nobody wanted to acknowledge that something rude was occurring on the TV, hoping the scene would change, until Mum would suddenly go 'Oh for goodness sake' and start stabbing at the remote control, which invariably needed new batteries. My toes are curling just thinking about it.
Author:  sinister agent [ Wed Aug 27, 2008 16:40 ]
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Tmuk wrote:
I used to hate it whenever anything steamy came on the TV while I was watching it with my parents. I'd immediately position myself so that I couldn't see their faces and they couldn't see mine to lessen the embarrassment factor. Nobody wanted to acknowledge that something rude was occurring on the TV, hoping the scene would change, until Mum would suddenly go 'Oh for goodness sake' and start stabbing at the remote control, which invariably needed new batteries. My toes are curling just thinking about it.


English people: Mental.

Mind you, my sister named her cat "Floozy" after our mum, so I can hardly talk.
Author:  metalangel [ Wed Aug 27, 2008 16:45 ]
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My parents used to rent videos a lot and I (as a teenager) would often sit and watch with them.

I had to walk out of Pulp Fiction after the talk about clit piercings. And TimeCop (when Jean Claude Van Damme has HOT PUMPING SEX with a girl with ludicrously huge tits) was also extremely uncomfortable.
Author:  Tmuk [ Wed Aug 27, 2008 16:52 ]
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You sit there thinking 'it'll stop any second now and we can all pretend nothing happened' and then suddenly it's double anal penetration, and you were only watching ruddy Blind Date.
Author:  metalangel [ Wed Aug 27, 2008 16:55 ]
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Things were never helped that my mother would try and make me feel less uncomfortable by making laddish comments like 'wahey' and 'look at her fronts', and 'whoa, she's built' and such when such things appeared on screen. You know, to let me know that she was 'down' with that sort of thing and not an uptight prude. Which, of course, had exactly the OPPOSITE of the desired effect, and only made me more humiliated to be talked to like that.
Author:  AceAceBaby [ Wed Aug 27, 2008 17:53 ]
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:DD Your mum sounds ace. Wahey!
Author:  metalangel [ Wed Aug 27, 2008 17:55 ]
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She is indeed ace... but this ability to say embarassing/disturbing things that STICK IN MY MIND FOREVER is one of her few flaws.
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