General Discussion

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Bad news ION studios :( [url="http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/02/10/news_6118364.html"]http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/02/10/news_6118364.html[/url] All the best wherever all the guys end up. tpe	13 Last	gauss Feb 2005
Frequency Highly recomended and if you have a close relationship with your fathers, it's even better.	15 Last	tubboy Feb 2005
A short introduction.... I just joined the site, thanks the Ben Mathis (poopinyourmouth). I should have known a forum like this existed. Thanks Ben for coming to our school, great presentation! Just wanted to introduce myse…	11 Last	Megaphobema Feb 2005
STARGATE SHOW Ok, here I am reading the latest General POSTs and I stumble upon the post I made regarding the stargate sg-1 game. There is abviously LOTS of hate for this show and it's not limited to just people h…	152 Last	tubboy Feb 2005
EA starts Game dev program weird. [url="http://money.cnn.com/2005/02/08/technology/ea_chair/index.htm"]http://money.cnn.com/2005/02/08/technology/ea_chair/index.htm[/url]	22 Last	killingpeople Feb 2005
GMail Drive shell extension [url="http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/E-mail/Mail-Utilities/GMail-Drive-shell-extension.shtml"]get the "GMail Drive shell extension" here![/url] "GMail Drive is a Shell Namespace Extension tha…	1 Last	Daz Feb 2005
Baby Got Bible Ahah, wtf? [img]http://boards.polycount.net/images/icons/poly009.gif[/img] [url="http://www.compfused.com/directlink/615/"]http://www.compfused.com/directlink/615/[/url]	14 Last	Mishra Feb 2005
My new drug of choice....for breakfast! [url="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050126/265400_1.html"]http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050126/265400_1.html[/url] So I heard about this from Conan O'Brien last week, so I had to give it a try. I like Lucky Cha…	15 Last	RageUnleashed Feb 2005
poor customer service- emo content-ish. okay, so i just had a new 120GB HD and 256 MB RAM added to my PC, get this, the guy wanted the CD for my modem's drivers. fair enough, give him the CD i think they're on. get the tower back today, wi…	29 Last	Daz Feb 2005
donnie darko > you oh my god, i got this on dvd yesterday and just watched it. it starts off innocent enough, plenty of laughs, "What's a fuckass?" then it quickly turns to a mind FUCK and it is seriously the best mov…	32 Last	swampbug Feb 2005
OOOOh no, you did not touch my Machine How do you guys personally feel about other co-workers or bosses touching your machine? I perosnally don't really care. If someone needs to get on my machine to get something or look at something, go…	28 Last	Joshua Stubbles Feb 2005
Resident Evil 4...... garsh darnit! I've been playing it for a while. Re4 is such a badass game. Its got a nice pace Amazing texture work (the best usage of photoref I've seen) Lighting animation characters Sound ... its all ver…	20 Last	Asherr Feb 2005
[AD-SIZE] Very strange issue in Firefox here. Well, actually i.e too which is what makes it even more weird. I get this text: [AD-SIZE] where I should be getting thumbnail images on a lot of websites. I of…	4 Last	KDR_11k Feb 2005
Jan-Feb desktops I'll show you mine... if you show me yours. [url="http://mypage.iu.edu/~daphipps/Images/jan_desk.jpg"][img]http://mypage.iu.edu/~daphipps/Images/tn_desk_jan.jpg[/img][/url]	51 Last	Asherr Feb 2005
God of War No, not Bush. [url="http://ps2.gamespy.com/playstation-2/god-of-war/516077p1.html"]http://ps2.gamespy.com/playstation-2/god-of-war/516077p1.html[/url] This game is looking to be what PoP:WW should …	7 Last	Jeff Parrott Feb 2005
Coop'n RPG'n Well with the newer RPGs coming out me and my friends are trying to find a new one we could coop online with. So far we were looking at Guild Wars and Dungeon Siege 2. And well basically I wanted you…	6 Last	Slayerjerman Feb 2005
The current top two headline stories at CNN.com [url="http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/02/10/nkorea.talks/index.html"]Nuclear North Korea[/url] [url="http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/02/09/iran.nuclear.ap/index.html"]Nuclear Iran[/url] …	54 Last	TomDunne Feb 2005
short-sighted heavy computer users glaucoma risk [url="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/17/computer_glaucoma/"]http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/17/computer_glaucoma/[/url] Oh Shit! I'm getting fat and pail and blind? Fuck fuck fuck fuck..…	6 Last	Josh_Singh Feb 2005
PC Exclusive: Preview of the FGA page [url="http://freegamearts.myexp.de/"]http://freegamearts.myexp.de/[/url] [i]Free Game Arts promotes the use and development of free and 'open source' game resources, including 3D models, sound effec…	2 Last	JKMakowka Feb 2005
career search advice.. I have really been trying to get my artwork under people's noses. I havn't been successful at getting many contact names for the companies. Can someone tell me 1) if demo folders sent like "attn: art…	2 Last	pogonip Feb 2005
Tecmo sues website for game hacks Tecmo sues website for game hacking: [url="http://news.com.com/Tecmo+sues+for+video+game+hacking/2110-1047_3-5569683.html?tag=st_lh"]http://news.com.com/Tecmo+sues+for+video+game+hacking/2110-1047_3…	3 Last	Seyiji Feb 2005
Scan Your Yearbook Picture Goobers! Okay here is an idea for a picture thread. Scan your senior picture from your yearbook. If you are still in school scan your latest one. I know for a fact that a lot of us ARE out of school, so scan…	19 Last	Dukester Feb 2005
You know you want it! Come looky [url="http://www.gaspowered.com/ds2/news.php"]DungeonSiege2[/url] Dungeon Siege 2 is comin down the mountain [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] If any of you goons wants in the limited Beta, let…	22 Last	Downsizer Feb 2005
VSync testing (mainly on ATI cards) I've been a longtime lurker on the Polycount boards, and although I have done some 3D work in the past, I'm much more into programming now. Lately I've been programming a gameengine/framework, and I'…	0 Last	RickA Feb 2005
Stop comparing games to other games (rant) Ok... First off, I dont care if gameX is better than gameY. Stop trying to convert me. I dont care about gameX's graphics are that much better compared to gameY. I dont care how WoW, EQ2 or any oth…	21 Last	sundance Feb 2005
GDC Resturants in the area Does anyone know of any cheap $5-$20 restaurants in the GDC area. The GDC address is 747 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94103. And is in the down town area just east of China town. I really apprec…	6 Last	Daz Feb 2005
Do the (kung fu) Hustle! [url="http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony/kung_fu_hustle.html"]http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony/kung_fu_hustle.html[/url] Yah, I definately think this is one I will be checking out; corny or not.	10 Last	Mojo2k Feb 2005
modelling for HL2 \| BLOCKED I really hoped to be posting here more often since discovering this glorious game but I have one major block to my development: softimage\|xsi for HL2 doesn't work for computers with 1400 x 900 screen…	11 Last	hawken Feb 2005
Book Recommendation I think every artist could benefit from reading "Art and Fear, Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking" by David Bayles and Ted Orland. It's a little book, I think it was like 12 buc…	5 Last	rolfness Feb 2005
DDR OWNZ ME So I heard about a psx controller to usb adapter and wondered if there was a DDR for the PC. I played it for a week or two with one of my residents who had it for ps2 back in college. Well there is…	20 Last	tubboy Feb 2005
BloodMoney screenshots [url="http://games.tiscali.cz/clanek/screen.asp?id=8118"]http://games.tiscali.cz/clanek/screen.asp?id=8118[/url] just wondering what you think so far? tpe	11 Last	flachdrache Feb 2005
Creatively nocturnal? So I have this problem. When working on any given project, I really dont seem to be able to get totally stuck into it until the evenings. I've actually taken a couple of days off work to do some of m…	40 Last	flachdrache Feb 2005
Your work BOX PIC - Pic thread for 05 I really enjoyed seeing the different pics from so many companies and thought Id be fun to start up a new one. This time, show off your over done and outrageous Desk collections built up over the ye…	45 Last	Rwolf Feb 2005
Looking for a Game (indie Pizza Delivery Game) i remember seeing i think a one man team that made this 3d or maybe a 2d flash pizza delivery game with all these wild video game characters. i just cant remember what it was. can someone help me out?	0 Last	parasyte7 Feb 2005
Resurrection of Evil goes to HL2 Sure everyone has seen the link on blues refereing to the Doom3 addon date but what made me laugh... [url="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050209/law068_1.html"]http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050209/law068…	5 Last	swampbug Feb 2005
Missed the Superbowl? Here's the Commercials..... [url="http://dyn.ifilm.com/superbowlads/"]http://dyn.ifilm.com/superbowlads/[/url] People talk about the commercials, even more so then the game. So now you can talk about the commercials if you mis…	2 Last	Scott Ruggels Feb 2005
Games in Law & Order -- the beginning? [url="http://http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/02/08/news_6118208.html"]http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/02/08/news_6118208.html[/url] Is this the beginning of this "propaganda"? TV shows filling…	6 Last	aesir Feb 2005
Ipod vs Zen Tax time is here and I am thinking that I will use my return to finally purchase a portable mp3 player - namely an Ipod. However, I have looked a bit at the Creative Labs Zen as well. I know plenty o…	31 Last	rolfness Feb 2005
back into PC gaming finally bit my lip/wallet, drew blood, and replaced my Pentium 2 450 : P4 3.5ghz, geforce 6600, lots of plastic things with wires coming off them. Now for all my best intentions to use this moneysu…	17 Last	rolfness Feb 2005
PS3 details today. [url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4242447.stm"]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4242447.stm[/url] PlayStation 3 chip to be unveiled The successor to the PlayStation 2 will be launch…	17 Last	milla Feb 2005
Lightwave 3D 6.5 on Ebay I'm selling my copy of Lightwave 3D 6.5 on Ebay. [url="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=188&item=7132841324&rd=1"]http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&…	0 Last	JCH Feb 2005
hello anonymous users! Look at you all! You scare me! Peeking away in the background there. Viewing peoples profiles. Show yourselves! I can't shake this unnerving feeling that you're all in one room together, watching the…	22 Last	ElysiumGX Feb 2005
My little indie game gets a blub in Gamasutra!!! hey guys, all last year I was working on a indie game called [url="http://www.ninjabee.com/"]Outpost Kaloki[/url] . I did 95% percent of all the artwork. I saw this little blurb in gamasutra today a…	5 Last	Daz Feb 2005
FPS and Photorealism=Car sickness I have been reading and hearing from gamers recently who though can play other FPS (a few not at all), that Half-Life 2 in particular makes them sick to play/watch. Im not totally familiar with the …	26 Last	RageUnleashed Feb 2005
ossie davis died Actor Ossie Davis, who most of us here remember his part as Mr. President in Bubba Hotep or from Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing", was found dead in his hotel today apprently from natural causes. He …	4 Last	Malekyth Feb 2005
PSP Price set $250/games $40-50, your thoughts? at first I thought the price was way too high, but for what you are getting games/mp3/movie player it doesnt sound too bad, though i would like the option of buying the system itself without the "Bun…	31 Last	Weiser_Cain Feb 2005
B-b-b-bad Cad So let me give you the back story on this... My dad and i have this lil 'tradition' where we go to a place called Wheels & Deals after we get a bagel for sunday breakfast. Wheels & Deals is a…	6 Last	RageUnleashed Feb 2005
Who Shall Win the Superbowl? I predict its going to be New England and Philly, with Philly being the underdog though, i truely think that this will be there year, with owens gone and after watching the vikings game, thier reciev…	41 Last	Ryno Feb 2005
I'm moving! Hi everyone. Various events from the past few months have made me realize that I don't need to be here in Melbourne anymore, and that there's very little I enjoy about living here. So I decided that…	17 Last	Rick Stirling Feb 2005
The Future, and the choices I Make... Howdy everyone, for along time now (prob 6 years at least) I have been wondering what it would take to get into the gaming industry, finding a job, getting into college, choosing colleges etc. And I …	6 Last	Mojo2k Feb 2005