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Congrats BoBo the seal! Starting February, BoBo the seal will be the new Sr. Artist at Ironlore Entertainment. I had a chance to work with them, and their game is gonna be rockin. Heres hoping for the best buddy! The rea…	35 Last	HarlequiN Nov 2004
Ju-on I watched the american version of this movie (The Grudge) and thought it was pretty good, so i decided to rent the original japanese version of it (directed by the same director that did the japane…	15 Last	Irritant Nov 2004
Anyone actually buy HL2 not through Steam? I keep getting this error: "Error 1334: The file 'hl2.ico1' cannot be installed because the file cannot be found in cabinet file 'hl24.cab'. Yhis could indicate a network error, an error reading fro…	22 Last	Dukester Nov 2004
Whats next? Doom 3, half life 2, halo2, eq2, hmm all the big highly anticipated games are out.. what is next? seems like a deadzone now	32 Last	MoP Nov 2004
Election Recounts and voter apathy Ok, new thread since this isnt a conspiracy anymore. Something is off. The exit polls or the votes. Nader is trying to get New Hampshire to recount. Cobb, and even from what I have heard Bardanik …	16 Last	AstroZombie Nov 2004
Happy Birthday to DemonPrincess Happy Bithday! Have a great birthday you demonic princess you!	15 Last	rawkstar Nov 2004
Autobot Check it out: [url="http://uk.download.yahoo.com/ne/fu/oa/eurcncs185030.mpg"]http://uk.download.yahoo.com/ne/fu/oa/eurcncs185030.mpg[/url]	16 Last	iMag Nov 2004
Best Studios..... With all the talk from the EA_Spouse blog and the lawsuit it got me to thinking of what some good studios might be to work for. I'm not looking to start a bash fest. I'm just looking for good consoli…	8 Last	FunkaDelicDass Nov 2004
Steam accounts: Post your name's here! Now that some of us are getting HL2 I'm sure a lot of us will want to play CS (I know, I know) together. Thought it'd be nice to get a steam name thread going. My name is "Methyd_X".	26 Last	CheapAlert Nov 2004
Print Screen Print screen won't work and I'm ready to pick up my chair and throw it at my machine.	10 Last	ndcv Nov 2004
Lasik So, it's 'open enrollment' time for medical/dental beneifts at Volition, and harl's been thinking about getting Lasik done for the past couple years. We just haven't found any digital artists yet wh…	19 Last	That Darn Satan! Nov 2004
Quick, easy question for the international boys... what is the country of origin of this website please? [url="http://www.sheltiepage.de/working-county/"]http://www.sheltiepage.de/working-county/[/url] is it Denmark? is that what de is?	9 Last	Dukester Nov 2004
It's me I am back... and I need your help. Yeah so I have been away for some time. Getting on with life but I am fed up with all that shit. I want to start posting again, and to update my cottage. Only I haven't been able to get into my ftp f…	12 Last	sundance Nov 2004
Tribes Vengence (III). Why the silence? So its out. I haven't heard a peep out of anybody here. Whats the scoop? Is it good/bad? Does it include the mod tools? How is the latency? What? What? What???	11 Last	notman Nov 2004
Finally getting a GBA SP Reccommend some games both current and future releases in these Genres.... Adventure Fighting RPG I'm already thinking about... Gundam Seed Battle Assault Metroid Fusion & Zero Mission Super M…	13 Last	frosty Nov 2004
Congratulations J Bradford Congrats to polycounts newest employed member. He has asked me to keep his new employer anonymous, but they are big, and I am definately jealous of the project he is on. So speculate how you will, …	14 Last	CCPhil Nov 2004
Landed first gig, huzzah! My absence on the forums as of late has not been without reason. Recently I got a job as an an Environment Artist at Castaway Entertainment. Just got back from CA and spending a weekend with them. …	18 Last	Thegodzero Nov 2004
Seattle questions again Since I can't check my seattle post on the old boards, I'm going to ask again. What's a good area to live in Seattle? I'm looking at the King county area right now. Bothell seems nice. Give your sugg…	32 Last	Mark Dygert Nov 2004
BUSH ORDERS DRAFT! [img]http://www.theequineschool.org/rob/draftx.jpg[/img]	24 Last	Mishra Nov 2004
Utah Polycounters? Any Polycounters from Utah in the industry? Just curious.	0 Last	Josh_Singh Nov 2004
Yay for easter eggs! So Fat Assasin posted this tutorial in the 2D/3D section. [url="http://www.coronaleonis.com/hyptut.htm"]http://www.coronaleonis.com/hyptut.htm[/url] Scroll to the very bottom. There are 2 lines o…	10 Last	Jes Nov 2004
Toy Story 3 [url="http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/16/film.toy.story/index.html"]http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/16/film.toy.story/index.html[/url] Very weird.	6 Last	Nerd Groupie Nov 2004
How does porting to a different platform work? With all these games that are released for different platforms I was wondering how this works from a art point of view and what is involved. For instance GTA SA is released for PS2 but will also be …	3 Last	avalean Nov 2004
Old post archive? Thought about this looking at the tut below. [url="http://www.coronaleonis.com/hyptut.htm"]http://www.coronaleonis.com/hyptut.htm[/url] Alot of external links to the old forums and old posts. Will y…	0 Last	Jeremy Lindstrom Nov 2004
finished halo 2 SPOILERS!! well the game was real fun, and i found it a bit short. but what bothered me the most is the end, just seemed un fufilling. the end was pretty weak, you kill a verry simple boss monster, and then…	22 Last	Mojo2k Nov 2004
Short Dev Cycles I am not talking about forced short dev cycles that wreak havoc on the peoples lives involved. Why is it the only (seemingly) game made today, is the 10+ million, 2+ years, 20+ man team, AAA title…	24 Last	Toomas Nov 2004
EA attempt to buy DICE (Battlefield Developer) Apparently EA is attempting to buy Swedish developer Digital Interactive (DICE), developer of the Battlefield and Rallisport games series. Many DICE stockholders are attempting to block the takeover…	16 Last	eepberries Nov 2004
BloodRayne 2 Demo... Awesomahj. My respect to the Terminal Reality crew. I wasn't much of a fan of the original game but this has just the right level of graphics, gore, senselss destruction and storyline to keep me entertained... …	10 Last	Mishra Nov 2004
happy half life 2 day! its midnight on the west coast and half life 2 should be unlocking for those of you who preloaded it. good? bad? was it worth the wait?	19 Last	adam Nov 2004
Painter IX Tutorial Videos Available Hi All (Hope this is the correct forum for this) Just a quick head up for painter fans. Some free Painter IX video tutorials made by Swoop have become freely available. They have audio and currentl…	1 Last	dur23 Nov 2004
activisionsav@loisir.net : anybody getting e-mail? [email="activisionsav@loisir.net"]activisionsav@loisir.net[/email] The bastard is spamming the shit out of me.....however, I got e-mails from people saying I'm e-mailing viruses too, whom I've never…	1 Last	KDR_11k Nov 2004
Immigration laws for Canada->US? Man the internet is a bitch. Trying to find information on immigrating to the US from Canada. If I ever land a job in the US I'd like to know some things. Specifically whether or not my girlfriend ca…	4 Last	kleinluka Nov 2004
Happy birthday Thegodzero I saw the birthday cake, you cannot hide from us!!! Happy bday!	14 Last	Jes Nov 2004
colin powell quits heard this on the news. fer shame, he was the only guy in dubya's cabinet i had any respect for.	12 Last	ndcv Nov 2004
Flip flopper? I just have a website for anyone that claimed that Kerry was a flip-flopper: [url="http://americanprogressaction.org/flipflop"]http://americanprogressaction.org/flipflop[/url] There is no "liberal …	4 Last	MoP Nov 2004
Rewolf/Ward Six Does anyone know what happened to these teams? Rewolf software did the Gunman game, then just suddenly disappeared. If i remember right they were really the first online team to get a major publishe…	2 Last	CheapAlert Nov 2004
what...the...f..? ok, so i started up my PC, connected up to my ISP, open polycount (my home page) and i find [url="http://www.polycount.com/cottages/monsterhouse/wtf1.jpg"]this![/url] so, i can only say what...th…	5 Last	sundance Nov 2004
Scott Peterson is found guilty - Poll. [url="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6385208/?GT1=5809"]http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6385208/?GT1=5809[/url] Thank you for voting.	21 Last	frosty Nov 2004
Preparing for an interview. I don't mean for just any job, I mean a gaming gig in particular. Any tips on preparing for an interview? I have one with Volition @ 2PM on Monday (the 15th). I've checked out the companies website f…	6 Last	FatAssasin Nov 2004
Too much time on the PC results in..... Okay, so today I'm driving my girlfriends car which doesn't happen very often. So, as i'm driving along I am trying to figure out the CD player. I actually hold my finger over a button waiting for th…	20 Last	frosty Nov 2004
Polar Express I'm surprised no one has posted anything about this movie yet (or maybe I missed it [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]). I took my kids to see it this Saturday at the IMax in 3D. It was damn imp…	0 Last	notman Nov 2004
trouble with the Dawn of War mod tools I've been having this weird problem whenever I'm extracting .sga files with the mod packager. The status bar is full; there's a fraction that implies all files have been extracted, but the hilight …	0 Last	sonofangron Nov 2004
Ol' Dirty Bastard Changed his name again..... He now wants to be called Ol' Dead Bastard due to him recently (Some Time Saturday) dying. [url="http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1493725/20041113/ol_dirty_bastard.jhtml?headlines=true"]Source[/url]…	6 Last	FunkaDelicDass Nov 2004
Random name engine! Woot! [url="http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~pound/#werd"]http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~pound/#werd[/url] [url="http://www.kleimo.com/random/name.cfm"]http://www.kleimo.com/random/name.cfm[/url] Here are some cool r…	10 Last	gauss Nov 2004
Pixar outdoes itself.. INCREDIBLES IS INCREDIBLE Oh my god.. this movie is sooo good.. everyone was amazed by it.. in my opinion its by far the best pixar movie to date, and judging from a rather weak trailer of their new endevor.. incredibles will…	38 Last	gauss Nov 2004
Evercrack...er...Everquest 2 It seems this game has been over shadowed by WoW, also some people just despise it. Just got it the other day when I picked up Halo 2, and I must say, it's pretty damn fun. People complained that in…	30 Last	Toomas Nov 2004
Ventura - 2008? [url="http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/2004-04-15-ventura-white-house_x.htm"]http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/2004-04-15-ventura-white-house_x.htm[/url] and for a bit of…	13 Last	Mojo2k Nov 2004
Halo 2 makes $125 million first day. [url="http://news.com.com/%27Halo+2%27+clears+record+%24125+million+in+first+day/2100-1043_3-5447379.html?part=rss&tag=5447379&subj=news.1043.10"]woah[/url] woah is all i can say. biggest …	12 Last	TomDunne Nov 2004
November Desktops Get them online. Remember that big images are nasty. Use Thumbnails! [url="http://boards.polycount.net/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=533&an=0&page=0#533"]THUMBNAILS![/url] [url="http:/…	18 Last	Paolo Nov 2004
Kingdom Under Fire I know this game will probably slink into oblivion being over shadowed by Halo 2 and Halflife 2, but it deserves a look. I am having a blast playing it. Its like Dynasty warriors mixed with a real …	3 Last	FatAssasin Nov 2004