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Ludology - Interest Anyone? Hey guys I've just started a masters degree in games research/design this year, looking into the fundamentals at the moment of a subject called ludology (ludology.org maybe some use if you've never h…	1 Last	KDR_11k Oct 2004
The Zebra Poll!	30 Last	KDR_11k Oct 2004
John peel is dead! [url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3955289.stm"]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3955289.stm[/url]	16 Last	danr Oct 2004
Rayne is all over the streets of Dallas today No, I don't mean there's a BR2 leak. Local chick Rayne just happens to be pictured on the cover of the Dallas Morning News' free daily McNewspaper. It's instant litter, so BR2 will be getting some fr…	11 Last	eepberries Oct 2004
region free? a while ago i got the Cashern video off torrent, but i'd rather have the DVD version which came out on Oct 23rd but its a region 2 and i dont really wanna spend the money for a multi region player. t…	4 Last	milla Oct 2004
Stop watching Fox New or CNN and watch PBS........ [url="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/view/"]http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/view/[/url] Alot of profound shit. PBS seems more Fair and Balanced then any crap I've seen on advertisem…	4 Last	sal_manilla Oct 2004
MTV Video Mods Anyone know how they're doing this? I mean, do they get the art assets (character models and engine) from the developer directly, or are they using off-the-shelf games? Seems like they're using gam…	4 Last	Neo_God Oct 2004
Eminem's Mosh Now, normally I'm not one to care much about what Eminem is up to these days but I've come across an un-released video of his that is pretty damn cool. Now, the song is "OK", but the way the video is…	2 Last	Wells Oct 2004
Opera.. Today I went back to Opera, after having it for about 2 months, then switching to Internet Explorer for unknown reasons (I would have had some at the time) - I believe it was because it added .url on…	37 Last	Michael Knubben Oct 2004
Having problems posting to the boards? Having problems posting to the boards? Weve had one consistent issue because of the way the new boards work. If you try to quick reply, reply or post to the boards and instead receive a "not a val…	0 Last	r13 Oct 2004
$ for 3D models? Anyone considered or followed through on selling 3D models to a company such as Viewpoint or an online database like [url="http://www.turbosquid.com"]http://www.turbosquid.com[/url] ? I was wonderin…	10 Last	KDR_11k Oct 2004
Election Night Parties Next Tuesday is election night. Lainey and I are trying to find something to do or find somewhere to go to drink and watch the results come in. Anyone else doing anything?	10 Last	SjetvsKerrigan Oct 2004
Royal Navy accepts Satanic captain?! Im not religious in any way, so Im not offended by this or anything, but WTF?! I just thought it was about the most bizarre thing Id heard in ages: [url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3948329.stm"]h…	37 Last	Mojo2k Oct 2004
Noob Music dl question Hey Guys/Gals a quick one here. When I dl music from supposed free sites can I just burn the mps over to a cd? I have a new workstation pc with a burner. I am mainly just going for old school cla…	3 Last	frosty Oct 2004
A testament to the power of various 3d programs I, my self, was a proud max user. Had been for most of my career. I praised the program in all its abilities. At the time, Maya, Softimage, and Lightwave, were nothing to me. Though I never tried any…	28 Last	MoP Oct 2004
My little benchmark. I was bored, so here's a silly little benchmark program I whipped together in a matter of 8 minutes using the Darkplaces Quake1 engine, curious to see your results. Dunno if this should be in p&p…	5 Last	EarthQuake Oct 2004
Main Boards Back up? Well...I did my usual clickee on the polycount linkee to see if they were back up...and the page came up! Am I seeing things? Are we really back up?	7 Last	bearkub Oct 2004
Woman/ women troubles I never thought I would get myself into this kind of situation, but alas, here I am. Here's the deal. About 3 years ago I met this wonderfull girl and we fell in love. All went well and we had the …	6 Last	Mojo2k Oct 2004
photoshop 5.5 any faster than 7? so i got me a tablet pc, I love the thing. the only problem is it is a bit sluggish using photoshop and painter. im wondering if going back to 5.5 (which ive always heard people liked anyway) will …	4 Last	EarthQuake Oct 2004
Buy 2 games get 1 free!!! Starting on October 27 and runnning for a week Toys R Us will be doing this deal. You can do it online also, but the games all have to be the same price and platform. If you go into a store you can b…	4 Last	FatAssasin Oct 2004
Happy Birthday Dark Horizon \o/ Get out the blood lemonade and rotten pie. Haaapy birthdaaay Jason!	10 Last	Thegodzero Oct 2004
The career and Women I've been wondering about marriage. I got a few things to share and some questions, I'll try and be short. [b] -Did any of you compair new girls to old flames? Tell me about that. -Does anyone hav…	11 Last	PaK Oct 2004
Theaters and children and me being pissed off I like movies, when i go to a theater to watch movies i like to hear the movie and enjoy it, i know a bit of screaming during scarry parts, and laughing during funny parts will go on, thats fine,…	10 Last	Mojo2k Oct 2004
Desktop Thread! xD Yep, a Desktop thread here at the temporary Poly-Board, just for us Polycounters... [img]http://boards.polycount.net/images/icons/poly112.gif[/img] [url="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v327/-Jes-…	11 Last	Hollowmind Oct 2004
WARNING: Spoofed SIGGRAPH 2005 Email Attacks I keep getting test and mails from a @smithbucklin.com [email="ejobe@smithbucklin.com"]ejobe@smithbucklin.com[/email] [email="SIGGRAPH_2005@smithbucklin.com"]SIGGRAPH_2005@smithbucklin.com[/email] …	2 Last	KDR_11k Oct 2004
No animation for me Well at the half way point of this term of character rigging I see that I will never want to do animation. Maybe its the fact that the class is being "taught" by using the tutorials in max. The thin…	5 Last	Sett Oct 2004
My big day today's the big day. I'm gonna propose to my girlfriend of 5+ years. Wedding won't be for a couple of years though. I'll probally be 27 then. I'm curious as to how old you married folk were when yo…	32 Last	Thunderkor Oct 2004
BC cancelled Wow what a crying shame. This was the title Id have been working on had I not left the UK. Id verbally accepted an offer from them until an oppurtunity in the US arose. Bad of me I know. It looked i…	19 Last	Daz Oct 2004
do you like the new boards? so what do you think?	22 Last	doc rob Oct 2004
3D Studio Max 7 is here Ok, 3D Studio Max 7 has been out for two days now, and Discreet has a 30 day free trial over at their site...and guess what...its both a kickass upgrade and has the occasional pain in the ass bug... …	10 Last	Illusions Oct 2004
Going Upriver: The Long Road for John Kerry [url="http://www.goingupriver.com/"]http://www.goingupriver.com/[/url] I had never even heard of this documentary until my girlfriend came across a trailer for it online today. Seems pretty interest…	3 Last	cochtl Oct 2004
Multiple IM Programs like trillian/miranda etc... Which multi-protocol IM-program would you recommend? i've been using trillian for a long time now, but i find the options in the free version both bloated and lacking, and i don't want to use a crack…	10 Last	KDR_11k Oct 2004
Polyfrag: Ut2004/Mods What about a small session of Ut2004 to celebrate that the forums are back? Does anyone know a fast (maybe european?) server? I would also like to try the AlienSwarm ( [url="http://www.blackcatgame…	3 Last	JKMakowka Oct 2004
Team America America, FUCK YEAH No I haven't seen it yet, but.... Discuss.	8 Last	KeyserSoze Oct 2004
most amazing piece of artwork ever... [url="http://razghul.ice.org/misc/zoom/zoom.htm"]http://razghul.ice.org/misc/zoom/zoom.htm[/url] Get yourself some nice backing music going on Winamp and check this thing out.	4 Last	Khas Oct 2004
Leisure Suit Larry this game is pretty damn funny, definatly for mature (agewise) and imature (intelectwise) which HEY i fit in! love the art style, the controls seem a bit clunky sometimes, short game, cheap ga…	9 Last	adam Oct 2004
MIssing Emoticons Glad to see the polyblobs making an appearance. Especially glad to see the good old polysmile. Here are a few more for these boards. Some never actually made it into the old boards. OK so most of…	5 Last	r13 Oct 2004
W3rd. We went gold. Last Friday we went gold with the EU and US versions of GTA: San Andreas. But you probably all knew that. Too...many...options....when..posting. Must..stop..hitting...new..buttons...	19 Last	kleinluka Oct 2004
IGN fucking sucks... But hey who wants to use Firefox to browse Polycount anyway! No I'd rather sit there and stare at a stupid flash ad for X-Games and a Car Edit: Ah I blocked it out but the statement still stands!	8 Last	Seyiji Oct 2004
Looking for info from WH40K Fans I picked up Dawn of War recently and am really enjoying it. I've always really liked the character design and now the entire universe has me intrigued. I noticed that there's several novels and there…	13 Last	sundance Oct 2004
Can you help me test my site? Hey everyone I seem to be havin a bit of a problem with my site specifically with my embedded quicktime movies. When I'm on my home computer using firefox they work fine but I'm now at school and th…	4 Last	Voodoo Oct 2004
Otogi 2 = awesomesauce Title says it all. Even if the gameplay isn't your bag you artisty types should check it out just for the neat (and peculiar) character design/art direction.	1 Last	adam Oct 2004
I think Paper Mario:Thousand year Door is supa fun Its an RPG, and the minute my firend saw that he said "thats it, I hate it" so, i think that sums it up for the RPG haters. and its decidely kiddy, so dont expect to tear any realistic intestines o…	3 Last	adam Oct 2004
Elemental challenge? Is the contest still on? Could we get a contests and challenges forum? thanks!	6 Last	Illusions Oct 2004
SWEET BREATH OF LIFE Oh how i missed you polycount. i was lost in a sea of uncertainty. hugs	9 Last	kleinluka Oct 2004
1st person FOV Hey all. I hope I picked the right forum to ask, if not I apologize. Are any of you familiar with 1st person field of view (on the client side), in any of the shooters that are on the market? I was …	2 Last	Irritant Oct 2004
BOOYA! Aqua and teal don't really do it for me.	2 Last	adam Oct 2004
Test boards, enjoy! OK gang, here is the deal. r13 and I decided it was time for an upgrade to the boards, so we got the latest version of UBB while the boards at GSI are down. Here is the deal: Right now, there are …	0 Last	bearkub Oct 2004