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Graduate School? I'm currently looking into graduate schools, to get my Master's Degree. I'm looking for suggestions. The degree I will be looking to acquire will most likely be a Master's in Fine Arts, or a Master's…	12 Last	Pedro Amorim Oct 2006
Don't trust those damned Stingrays! [url="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061019/ap_on_fe_st/stingray_stabbing;_ylt=AjBRNtP3X0u7o_KjHgZ0xtbtiBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--"]Fla. boater stabbed in chest by stingray[/url] The sucker…	15 Last	Rhinokey Oct 2006
Top Gear meets Battlefield 2 [url="http://www.jalopnik.com/cars/novelties/no-one-can-tell-clarkson-hes-wrong-top-gear-is-a-battlefield-208833.php"]http://www.jalopnik.com/cars/novelties/n...ield-208833.php[/url] One of the more…	3 Last	hawken Oct 2006
bafta video games awards so cringe worthy I almost bit my own hands off. Anyone else catch it? Vernon Kay was shit, too. All those duff gags, what the hell? Yes video games need to have a place, considering the money they …	8 Last	hawken Oct 2006
Happy Birthday Neo_God! Have a good one, dude!	13 Last	Neo_God Oct 2006
So I've decided to drink the MySpace Kool-Aid How many of you folks have MySpace accounts? I've added Daz and PaK as they're both swell human beings, but would happily associate myself with any Polycounters I can track down. Well, most of you,…	43 Last	Pedro Amorim Oct 2006
Crysis - comparisons & editor Some new screen shots .vs. real life comparisons, as well as pics from the new sandbox editor. The characters look hot! [url="http://duggmirror.com/gaming_news/AMAZING_NEW_CRYSIS_SCREENSHOTS_AND_COM…	20 Last	Eric Chadwick Oct 2006
December vacation:Rome or Paris? Hey there im gonna be taking a vacation and i was wondering about opinions from people who have been to either of these cities? At the moment Paris is cheaper but Rome has its draws too. What are s…	6 Last	Mongrelman Oct 2006
Okami on ps2 very awesome. Played all day today, very awesome, the whole caligraphy thing is quite fun and the caligraphy rendering looks nifty. Also boss battles are pretty nuts, this game reminds me a lot of zelda on the n6…	10 Last	malcolm Oct 2006
Starsiege 2845: Alpha Tech Release Been a long time coming but the mod turned indie game project Ive been working on for about 3 years finally has something to release. Its an alpha, meaning feature incomplete, quite likely buggy, an…	12 Last	notman Oct 2006
chimp play pacman awesome [url="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4436237546829251001&q=chimp"]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4436237546829251001&q=chimp[/url] hooray chimpy!	4 Last	Thegodzero Oct 2006
Boston Phoenix's 20 top videogame bosses article a Boston paper just put out this article about the top 20 videogame bosses of all time (in their opinion). my dissents aside I thought it was funny that they did this in honor of National Boss Day on…	0 Last	noritsune Oct 2006
Lumines Live! - PSP fails So I booted up my 360 while I was getting ready to go to work, and what did I find? Why Lumines Live!, of course (or else the thread would be named different). I know there are plenty of you guys/ga…	13 Last	Joshua Stubbles Oct 2006
revitalizing old games Are you guys playing any older games or ones that you never finished in your collection? I started playing Beyond Good and Evil, Kingdom Hearts (never got past the tarzan stage) and XIII	27 Last	Steve Schulze Oct 2006
Hot Fuzz teaser trailers! Yahoooooo!!! OhboyOhboyOhboy! First the Lumines Live thing and now this! The new teaser trailers for the new Simon Pegg movie Hot Fuzz are out. You can check them out here. [url="http://www.workingtitlefil…	4 Last	Mongrelman Oct 2006
podcasts? My girlfriend gave me her old nano and I've just ventured into the world of podcasts. I'm currently subscribed to the following podcasts: Penny Arcade Boing Boing Boing And I'm downloading Pseudop…	9 Last	Justin Meisse Oct 2006
Elephant triggered Art Rant Hey, somewhat of a rant, but I'm interested in hearing some of the opinions from people on here. I recently watched a movie called "Elephant" with my girlfriend. It was recommended by a buddy of min…	17 Last	noritsune Oct 2006
Rendering movies with realtime engines. I've been wondering about this, but are there any short movies rendered using real time engines? I'm not talking about traditional machima, where the asset specs are kept relatively close to those of…	12 Last	Whargoul Oct 2006
Age of Empires 3: the Warchiefs! Ships today! Just wanted to let people know that Age of Empires 3: The Warchiefs was out today! A game that DH, Jaquays, and me worked on, so hopefully you guys enjoy it. Spark	5 Last	Bronco Oct 2006
Closed Stop buying from EA! [img]http://fathed.googlepages.com/BFinsert.jpg[/img] One of many reasons.... Theres a big f'ing pink elephant in the room and nobody is talking about it.	2 Last	bearkub Oct 2006
Seattle Meetup (flaagans visit) (VC input) Ok, so no more beating around the bush. Would Saturday the 7th meeting be best? I know you VC guys are looking at the 14th. I mentioned to Flaagan, it might be easier to incorporate his coming into…	64 Last	flaagan Oct 2006
Scrat - No time for Nuts [url="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7749356677817061132&q=scrat"]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7749356677817061132&q=scrat[/url] scrat from Ice Age is back!	2 Last	nealb4me Oct 2006
Music Visualisation Game - Space Giraffe [url="http://www.xboxyde.com/stream_3231_en.html"]http://www.xboxyde.com/stream_3231_en.html[/url] This is an Xbox Live Arcade game called Space Giraffe. Apparently it's made by Jeff Minter, the sam…	7 Last	Steve Schulze Oct 2006
Procedural cities [url="http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~pmueller/wiki/CityEngine/Documents"]http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~pmueller/wiki/CityEngine/Documents[/url] Very interesting work. I could see developers using thi…	20 Last	Sabby Oct 2006
Sony Bravia ad This [url="http://www.bravia-advert.com/paint/thead/"]AD[/url] for Sony's lcd TV is stunning. Kinda makes you wish you were there. And a short 'making of' on [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhS…	2 Last	erik! Oct 2006
jack thompson vs windmills [url="http://gamepolitics.com/2006/10/14/more-mainstream-bully-coverage-miami-herald/"]http://gamepolitics.com/2006/10/14/more-mainstream-bully-coverage-miami-herald/[/url] so if you haven't been fo…	12 Last	Paul Jaquays Oct 2006
Freedom Controller Guys, I don't post much unless I have something useful to say, I hope you guys will read this and give me some useful feedback:. Polycount has always been an inspiration to me, and many of you are gr…	29 Last	firestarter Oct 2006
A long shot, but... NCO Financial Services If you've clicked the link you're either a.) curious as to wtf this is about or b.) been contacted by them before. We just received a call here (automated) from a company called "NCO Financial servi…	4 Last	KDR_11k Oct 2006
Grindhouse: Tarantino and Rodriguez do Dead Rising Looks like all kinds of awesome [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUuuBe4Glmk"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUuuBe4Glmk[/url]	17 Last	ebagg Oct 2006
complexification - gallery of computation Check out this guy's web site. He programs these java applets that can generate some really beautiful images... the main gallery page is [url="http://www.complexification.net/gallery/"]http://www.co…	8 Last	Pedro Amorim Oct 2006
clover studios to be shut down. dissolved actually. [url="http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=11229"]clover studios[/url] wil be shut down in march in an effort to consolidate resources for the big haul in next…	12 Last	thomasp Oct 2006
Vancouver Meetup Date: October 14th (subject to change) Figuring more of a day event this time around. There's an exibition at science world called body worlds I think most would be interested in seeing. [url="htt…	30 Last	Whargoul Oct 2006
First 100 issues of Computer Gaming World magazine Hiya The first 100 issues of Computer Gaming Monthly are available for download at FileFront: [url="http://cgw.filefront.com/"]http://cgw.filefront.com/[/url] For the rest of the issues up til 2006 t…	4 Last	notman Oct 2006
Happy birthday Chunkey !!!! [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] [img]http://www.beautydish.com/birthday-cat.jpg[/img]	12 Last	Gmanx Oct 2006
October:Desktops Since RickStirling seems to be dropping the ball this month, let's see if we can get the October Desktop thread rolling. [img]http://www.polycount.net/tshockey/pics/oct-mac-dt.jpg[/img] Image from…	18 Last	notman Oct 2006
Awesome, Bully has 100 hours of gameplay! Why else would a Florida court ask for [url="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061011-7967.html"]100 hours of gameplay footage[/url]. I'm pretty sure you can guess what psychologically unstable…	26 Last	flaagan Oct 2006
Wii Pre-orders start tomorow :) [url="http://www.gamestop.com/gs/wii/wiipre_ebgs.asp"]http://www.gamestop.com/gs/wii/wiipre_ebgs.asp[/url]	15 Last	seantree Oct 2006
ps3 pre-orders started today from ebgames website: "GameStop and EB Games will begin accepting limited pre-orders for the PlayStation 3 console on Tuesday, October 10, on a first come, first served basis. Due to extremely limit…	11 Last	r13 Oct 2006
Help with CITY OF VILLAINS update problems I just got city of villains, right? I install it... everything goes fine, until i boot the game up. It gives me the updater, and it's going to take 30+ hours to update. What the hell? I have a pretty…	8 Last	Xenobond Oct 2006
Half-Life 2 Animal Models Needed Hi, This is my first time on the forum. I'm in a network games class and we are working on a mod that uses the Half-Life 2 - source engine. I'm having a hard time finding models online that I can …	4 Last	kimchimonkey Oct 2006
Computer Hardware/ Builder Help Hey I'm a character Modeller student and to tell the truth im not the best at knowing the best parts for certain things on a computer so i would just like to know from your guys who are more knowledg…	13 Last	Xaltar Oct 2006
Happy birthday, PER!=) Health, happyness and big big bag of coins to you, bro! [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]	40 Last	SHEPEIRO Oct 2006
Quad Core Game Demo - This is truly amazing!! Hi all I dont know what game engine, graphics and physics card this demo is using but it has got to be the most impressive demo you will see for a long while! It includes ultra realistic and seamle…	21 Last	James Edwards Oct 2006
Seagate contest... Thought some of you might be interested in this...flex those design skilz... [url="http://gearlog.com/blogs/gearlog/archive/2006/10/09/22911.aspx"]http://gearlog.com/blogs/gearlog/archive/2006/10/09…	0 Last	sledgy Oct 2006
cool ExpressCard laptop dock, a universal dock? I was kind of upset that my laptop didn't come with DVI out and only one speaker output (so I couldn't hook up my surround sound speakers) but it looks like [url="http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news.ph…	3 Last	notman Oct 2006
Cake for thnom!! Happy birthday, youngun!	13 Last	conte Oct 2006
WTF? windows media player not working right? Has anyone ever had there videos not play right in WMP? I'm getting the videos to play back super dark. The thumbnails look fine, but any video, quicktime, wmv, mpeg4, anything is super dark and fuck…	3 Last	animatr Oct 2006
Advice on computer sales So I just got off the phone with a friend of mine who's looking to buy my current computer. The specs are as follows: AMD 64 4000+ 2.4ghz ASROCK Dual-SATA2 mobo 2 gigs Corsair Value RAM XFX Geforce 6…	8 Last	sledgy Oct 2006
Sketching Physics Game MIT is so A+. This isnt a game, but easily could become one. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZNTgglPbUA"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZNTgglPbUA[/url] Just think if they could use this te…	1 Last	Neo_God Oct 2006
Google Buys YouTube I'm surprised no one mentioned this yet, but apparently Google inked a deal to purchase YouTube for $1.6B in stocks. Interesting move since google video was already a top used site... although youtub…	21 Last	KDR_11k Oct 2006