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So you walk into a bar and A........walks in. So I was recently realizing alot of Polycounters who I thought were way up in the food chain and alot older then me were around the same age range. And I got to thinking of fun things people like to …	51 Last	Michael Knubben Jan 2010
Another Version Of The Truth Just thought I'd share this in case there are any NIN fans on here! [url]http://thisoneisonus.org/[/url] It's a fan edited DVD of the LITS final show since Interscope wouldn't let Trent produce hi…	3 Last	Zipfinator Jan 2010
January Games Thanks to MW2, we've got a fuckton of games out next month, what are you planning on getting? Going for Darksiders, Bayonetta and Mass Effect 2. Heard good things about Darksiders, Bayonetta demo wa…	61 Last	moose Jan 2010
Closed Xbox 360 and PC Audio/Video Sharing? EDIT: Nevermind, I just realized I can do something else that will work easy enough. Someone can delete this..	2 Last	uneditablepoly Dec 2009
Birthday some old git just got older today, huh, could be anyone... [spoiler]how could you forget:'( now where's the whisky and the plasma rifle?[/spoiler]	19 Last	System Dec 2009
CD/DVD operating system? So my boot HD bricked yesterday and I need a way to access the files on my other HDs without formatting and installing anything. There are partitions I need to manage and files I need to transfer on…	9 Last	neolith Dec 2009
NYE beers meetup (Vancouver peeps) Hey guys, We're heading out to shred some sweet sweet pow tomorrow morning before rolling out to party later on that night If any vancouver pc'ers want to meet up and have a Pre-New Years beer and j…	7 Last	ScudzAlmighty Dec 2009
Infidelity My girlfriend recently revealed that she had been cheating on me for two months. I've been relitively mellow about it but as can be expected I'm really hurt by this turn of events. Worse yet is, sh…	85 Last	almighty_gir Dec 2009
How has your Life Changed in the Past Decade? This was one Crazy Decade for Me, lets see: Gained a Wife Gained 4 Children, Gained a Career, Gained 30 lbs. Lost a Father, Gained a Hell of a lot of experience. Gained a Hell of a lot of Friends. I…	54 Last	meatle Dec 2009
Just checking - new pc requirements.... in the same vein as Shiver136's thread - i was contemplating on buying a new pc, main thing was though - i am unfamilar with all the new specs (dual/quad core 64/32bti etc.) i wanted to make sure i…	6 Last	achmedthesnake Dec 2009
Adobe Photoshop on Linux? And no, I'm not talking about wine. Read between the lines. [quote]Arm hopes that many more netbook makers will be using one of its designs as a core processor and turn to Linux as the operating s…	6 Last	acc Dec 2009
captainforever- Fun & orginal flash game [url]http://www.captainforever.com/captainforever.php[/url]	16 Last	HonkyPunch Dec 2009
Itz Mezzday! Have a good one and may the beer flow \o/ [center][img]http://wiki.angry.com.au/download/attachments/15040672/lolcat-happy.jpg[/img][/center] [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBRQM0vErH8[/ame] …	10 Last	Peris Dec 2009
The Saboteur Anyone else picked this up? Controls on the PC aren't great, especially driving, but it looks quite stylish and seems like it'll be fun. The combat seems a little clunky after playing so much Bat…	10 Last	brokenpoly Dec 2009
No longer a Wii-virgin...need your help on best games for: - driving - horror - FPS - action/adventure - yer flat-out favorite Not gonna be doing online (methinks). Some rationale and a replay rating would be cool to hear too! These will mainly be pla…	40 Last	easterislandnick Dec 2009
Dragon Age So after preloading it all day monday and then spending 3 HOURS decrypting files through this buggy steam thing yesterday i finally got to play some of it. Played through 2 different starting race/ba…	105 Last	PixelGoat Dec 2009
Book suggestions for Environment/Prop artist? I was at Barnes and Nobles earlier and I came across the section with all the books on weapons. I was looking through them and thought they would be really helpful to have while I work on my current …	5 Last	Matabus Dec 2009
In the near future there will be... (predictions) I'm bored so i thought i'd start a thread... I just wanted to share some of my predictions of where we are heading technology wise. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Btu8qTh5nlY[/ame] In the ne…	7 Last	Richard Kain Dec 2009
Dealing With Headaches so i recently started getting pretty chronic headaches, and they seem to be pretty constant. i just have a lot of neck tension and get weird pains/numbness around the crown of my head. overall, it's …	34 Last	Rens Dec 2009
Merry Xmas... I GOT'S ME A JOB!!! So Christmas came a bit early for me this year and I was offered a job bright and early Monday morning. I gladly accepted and will be starting after the holiday break at Budcat Creations in Iowa Cit…	75 Last	Lamont Dec 2009
Colleges, Colleges, and more Colleges! So recently I rejected by a school that I thought was perfect for me in every way. But now that I've been rejected I need to look for new schools to apply regular decision to. I have decided to mak…	23 Last	Artifice Dec 2009
net neutrality has died a little bit more [url]http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-fights-danish-isp-block-080205/[/url]	0 Last	motoroika Dec 2009
New pc Rig - thoughts! AMD AthlonT II X2 250 Black Edition Dual-Core CPU Xion Vulcan case 4 GB DDR3 ram 500 GB harddrive GTS 250 1GB geforce videocard MOTHERBOARD:Asus M4A78LT-M LE AM3, 2xDIMM, DDR3 500W supply Is …	15 Last	Taylor Hood Dec 2009
need help buying monitor(s) Hi I really need some help buying a new monitors. I want a dual setup for 3d/2d animation, graphic work, modelling, modding etc and also playing games and watching movies with my special lady frien…	31 Last	kypo Dec 2009
Closed How cute! [url]http://www.universebot.com/2009/02/11/durex-humping-condoms-commercial/[/url] Safe for work. One of the best commercials I've ever seen.	6 Last	adam Dec 2009
Can't find an old thread I once saw on PC It was a old church, it had some middle eastern influences I think, lots of high poly work, a barrel of oranges outside it with a tree, cool chandlers-things in the church. It looked amazing, any ide…	2 Last	ZacD Dec 2009
pet animals I was wondering whether any other polycounters have pets? I have a bunch and they are annoying but fun in equal measures, nothing quite like a long night of 3d with a living footwarmer! here's my p…	49 Last	00Zero Dec 2009
New Rig set up Hey all, it's about time to upgrade by 3 year old system. I come from a 9600gt 512 Dual core 2.83ghz 298GB HDD 32 bit win xp Pretty bad right? Well, with the money I have from christmas (Not alo…	7 Last	ima Dec 2009
Looking for Illustrative/Cartoony 3D environment references... I was just curious if anyone had any bookmarked favorites in this category? Any portfolio examples or current games out there people absolutely love? I haven't researched this much and the only thi…	6 Last	CheeseOnToast Dec 2009
Game PR Announcements.. Tips and Tricks (Your Experiences) For those whom have had to do Game Announcement PR without a marketing department. How I guess? I mean. What do you strive for in your press announcement wording? What type of wording and pictures…	6 Last	oXYnary Dec 2009
Did your Christmas dreams come true? Figure I might as well start this! What did Santa bring you? My loot: 160 GB iPod 1.5 [COLOR=White][B]TERABYTE[/B][/COLOR] External HD Modern Warfare 2 Left 4 Dead 2 Eat 3D Old Damaged Piller…	75 Last	arrangemonk Dec 2009
Congrats on #7 so far, Torchlight Browsing through the top holiday sellers on the Steam home page and I see that Torchlight is right up there at #7 with the other huge games and dev packs. My girlfriend and I are loving the game so…	33 Last	3dskillet Dec 2009
$50 to amazon.com... game ideas. So as the title says... I got $50 to amazon.com. My parents, being anti-gaming, but at the same time want to support my hobby, got me [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Winter-Sports-Ultimate-Challenge-Xbo…	11 Last	Yozora Dec 2009
Presenting your work? I find it hard to present the art assets I make well. It's always a bit of an afterthought for me, even though its obviously important. Can anyone reccomend and artist who they think presents their w…	2 Last	bbob Dec 2009
Merry Christmas, or whichever one you are having :) Merry Christmas! Have fun guys, and remember to share the eggnog :)	33 Last	Wahlgren Dec 2009
Making something, for real? I have always been fascinated by objects; weird, out of this world even ordinary things. I guess that is the reason why I started doing 3D graphics, my fascination for things I could not get for real…	12 Last	bbob Dec 2009
Can we be writers too? Not that long ago there was a thread going about a bit of creative writing that one of the members were working on, and the idea of a creative writing sub-forum sprang up. Not much was said about it …	37 Last	mickyg Dec 2009
Creative Fantasy Writing Hello. I've been writing this small peice over the past few days as I have been pretty bored and just want to relax. So... I am a writer by no means and I'm sure most of you will know that I do not …	62 Last	mickyg Dec 2009
Splash Damage Christmas Tapirthon 2009! And cards! Because Splash Damage loves tapirs, we're giving money to tapir-related charities based on how many sites post up images of the tapir sticker Christmas cards we sent them! [URL=http://www.splashdama…	1 Last	danshewan Dec 2009
and so the year comes to a close... Happy christmas everyone, I wish you all a joyful and happy christmas. I hope that you all have fun, eat and drink plenty and have a laugh. I hope you all have a happy new year aswell and I ask you …	6 Last	Steve Schulze Dec 2009
Thank you Polycount for helping me land a job in the industry! I have finally, after 3 years of school and 6 months of job hunting, landed a job at Digital Extremes up in London, Ontario as an Environment Artist / World Builder. I just wanted to thank all of y…	42 Last	JasonLavoie Dec 2009
Canadians Looking for Intuos 4 Hey guys, just thought I'd share this great deal for Canadians. Normally the Intuos 4 Medium retails for $559.99 CDN at major retailers. I found an online retailer that's selling it for $364.99, +$…	1 Last	brandoom Dec 2009
what do you think about having a 3d logo Hey guys. Me and couple of friends are putting up a website for game characters and assets creation and I have an idea about the logo (just idea yet) [IMG]http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4020/420608…	21 Last	pior Dec 2009
L4D2 SDK to feature more options for modders. Apologies if that has been covered before. [url]http://kotaku.com/5420941/get-ready-for-even-freakier-l4d2-mods[/url] I would prefer a confirmation from Valve rather than Kotaku/l4dmods but its goo…	44 Last	\|Buddy\| Dec 2009
Kim Peek passed away :( [URL]http://www.neatorama.com/2009/12/22/kim-peek-rip/[/URL] [URL]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Peek[/URL] Every video and interview I've ever seen of him never ceases to amaze me. A recent prog…	8 Last	HonkyPunch Dec 2009
UE3 on Iphone [url]http://anandtech.com/gadgets/showdoc.aspx?i=3695[/url]	35 Last	Steve Schulze Dec 2009
Razer naga issue After misreading the details I bought a razer naga [url]http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-mice/razer-naga/[/url] with the expectation it'd come with software which would allow me to map the mouse butto…	4 Last	achillesian Dec 2009
What is your feeling on texture image websites? Do you use them? If so, which ones? Have you purchased a Mayang CD or joined CGTextures? If not, where do you get your textures and reference images from?	40 Last	onnod Dec 2009
Looking for LARGE DEM datasets I know some of you work with geospacial datasets and maybe have some info. For the past couple years I've been working with a friend processing this data and looking for datasets that are HUGE. Huge …	4 Last	Lamont Dec 2009
Lotr, emmersion, stories and roleplaying. Greetings all, it's 1 in the morning and I just can't get to sleep. I was just thinking about (Nerd incoming) emmersion and role playing. I started watching the LOTR box set again and it made me want…	0 Last	Taylor Hood Dec 2009