Two parts awesome.

Awesome Part 1

Awesome Part 2

Even more awesome:

Monty Oum is an animator that puts up self-made movies on GameTrailers.com. If you haven't seen his work, I strongly suggest checking it out.

His latest seems to be the start of a short series and it's pretty awesome.

Check it out

Make sure you look around and check out his older stuff too, as it's all awesome.

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You've got to be f**king kidding me.

Goddammit.

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http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/34344/135/
And what were they doing before.
I think i have noticed a difference. Sweet!

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Reality has become a commodity.

Something graphics companies just seem to not be able to do well is write drivers. It doesn't make any sense.

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Call of Duty 4 and Unreal Tournament III demos.

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Well, UT3 runs relatively fine on medium settings on 1024x768. I don't see how Bioshock couldn't handle my Radeon 9800 with similar settings? Screw 2k.

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Why snark works.

You know, there's been accusations that Epic withheld vital pieces and tools of the Unreal Engine 3 to other developers.

I was able to run the thing with absolutely no lag with everything I could turn up, up. It still didn't look like the screenshots though.

It could always be showing dynamic options.

It seems developers like Epic and Infinity Ward are the only ones doing optimizations on their engines.

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I had some decent fun with ut3, unfortunately i can't run it in 1680x1050, but I tend to run most I games windowed anyway so it wasn't that big of a letdown, the only problem I encountered was that every server had a ping of +100, and I was disconnected a couple of times, so I'm mostly playing just singleplayer.

I don't like the design of the new link gun, they should've sticked with the old, no doubt it looks great, but it doesn't have that link gun feel.
Oh yea the enforcer is back, going akimbo is awesome, but not very effective :sad:

It seems a lot of FPS multiplayer games lately just don't make it even possible to go commando, in any way; if you encounter a vehicle ... forget it, you're done.

I couldn't find the key bindings in the menu ... it's fine if I can't change them for the sake of the demo ... but I'd like to know what buttons do what.

The only other negative thing I can think of is several times, I was being shot and I just couldn't find out who was shooting me. It seems to be a combination of the environments (which are huge and multi-tiered) and the inability to get shot more than a few times (it's like three or four).

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It seems their main focus was to make the game console friendly. The menus and options system makes no use of mouse and keyboard specific features or any advanced hardware options. Maybe it's the most polished FPS engine on the planet - but here's a lot of FX but little style. Everything's brown and grey with too much contrast noise in the background and an aimless mix of cyberpunk/steampunk and... sci-fi samurai themes?!? Lighting is bland and uninspired. Vehicles, just like in the previous parts, just let you move faster at the disadvantage of being stuck in a huge box of metal.

The best thing about it is the oldschool weaponry (sniper rifle, enforcers). In other words, the best part is what they copied from UT1.

A game made in hope of getting a lot of engine licenses. A money machine. No soul. :sad:

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Why snark works.

a playlist maker, mainly to use for myspace-like sites
and forums and such.

a sample.

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don't sweat the petty stuff,just pet the sweaty stuff.

You can type "snark pit", literally, in the address bar of firefox and it will correctly send you to "http://www.snarkpit.net/". And I just stopped typing the "http://".

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Why snark works.

Super Mario Galaxy Discs are in game stores (like GameStop) all over the place. Go check it out, it's fun.

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And the letters that have a tiny shiny star on them spell out UR MR GAY.

I recently found that the UI customization features in XSI are far and away the best of any 3D package I've used. The keyboard shortcut editor puts a keyboard diagram in front of you and you can quickly see what key does what, and changing the bindings is as simple as find function > drag to key. The layout editor basically lets you put whatever you want wherever you want, and it's very friendly to dual-monitor setups.

Just one more reason I'm compelled to love XSI.

@Natus: Ha.

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Natus: I rofled.

lol

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Single Player Crysis Demo is up. (here)

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Scandalous: Supposed DX10 key-features can be unlocked for DX9... in Windows XP. That might annoy quite a few people who went and bought Vista just for their Crysis gaming pleasure. MS-style toilet-marketing all around.

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Why snark works.

This isn't completely messed up ... (yes it is)

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Lol, dear god.

Don't let the book give you any ideas.
Just in case anyone needs to know, any therapist/psychiatrist will tell you the vary last thing you would ever have a child do is confront his/her molester about what he/she did. Any further exposure to that person, negative or positive, is only going to damage the child more. The best thing you can do is get him/her/(yourself) to a therapist and have whoever locked in jail so they can't hurt anyone els.
And no, i haven't had any first hand experience.

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Reality has become a commodity.

You can tell a dog's age by how grey it's mouth/ whiskers are.

lol, thats interesting.

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Aaron's Stuff

The Coffee hating Cat

One of the best youtube vids in... years?

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I just spent 3 hours watching TED talks which seem to be all freely available now...

GREAT stuff.

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I found out today that my brother has a 5 month old son. And he's been living with my parents and I for years. f**ked up, huh?

I just found a voice mail on my phone from Mario. I'm not kidding.

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Could be a joke crono.

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Aaron's Stuff

Yeah, Charles Martinet prank calls me all the time.

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It could be some recorded voice, or it could be somebody who can do the mario voice really well.

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Aaron's Stuff

Who said it wasn't a recording?

It was a message from GameStop. They did a promotion with Martinet (who has done the voice of Mario since ~1991) to do a special recording to be sent to people who pre-ordered Mario Galaxy.

Are you that obtuse? Seriously?

I just thought it was neat thing, as the normal call is the automated female voice-mo-tron 3000.

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Ahhhh I see, well thats interesting. I'm sure you'll keep that voice message for a long time :wink: .

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Valve could do that with Gordon Freeman.

"Hello? Hello? WHo is this?"

"..."

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Why snark works.

lol. I still hate it that gordon doesn't speak, so stupid. Get a voice box gordon!

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Aaron's Stuff

Aaron makes me do this:

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lol.

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Aaron's Stuff

Directly translated, 'East Timor' means 'East East'

'Sahara Desert' means "Desert Desert"

But I didn't just find that out.

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reaper47 said:
I just spent 3 hours watching TED talks which seem to be all freely available now...

GREAT stuff.

Nice find reaper. You know any other video site with techy documentaries or smt?

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These words are my diaries screaming out loud

Youtube? :biggrin:

No, I just discovered this site by chance. Well, I'm doing a presentation course and there this Blog was recommended. Check out Bill Gate's ridiculously overloaden powerpoint slides.

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Why snark works.

There is a major exploit in GravelPit for TF2. An engineer can build turrets under the terrain. So, the other team gets killed over and over without seeing it.
I hope Valve gets on the ball to fix it.

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Apparently it was supposed to be fixed in yesterdays update, but I've heard mixed reports if it worked or not.

Edit: Another update has been released and the problem fixed:

• Took a more aggressive approach to solving the exploit that would allow players to get underneath terrain in Team Fortress 2

Was very annoying when it happened though, very satisfying sapping and backstabbing the engy's as a spy though :biggrin:

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SourDough2.0 - With Strawberry Jam

Surprise, surprise... most people use the internet to look up pop culture trivia.

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Why snark works.

If you really hate somebody, I just found the perfect gift!

My favorite must be the "professional powerpoint backgrounds for only 199$.

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Why snark works.

I just rediscovered Urban Dead ( www.urbandead.com ). Is anyone still playing?

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What the Snarkpitters listen to!

OtZman said:
I just rediscovered Urban Dead ( www.urbandead.com ). Is anyone still playing?

I started playing again about a month ago. :biggrin:

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Surprise, surprise... most people use the internet to look up pop culture trivia.

I'm worried about the 129,692 people so far this month who went to wikipedia to learn how to masturbate.

Good news! Deus Ex 3 has been officially announced.

I wonder if this has anything to do with the success of Bioshock and publishers picking up more complex, story-driven FPSers again? And I hope they learned from the horribly consolized Deus Ex 2.

Edit: Well, strike that, Warren Spector apparently won't be involved in this so, unless Eidos Montreal turns out to be a total surprise-super-talent, we'll see just another faceless sequel.

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Cash Car Star said:
<DIV class=quote>
<DIV class=quotetitle>? quote:</DIV>
<DIV class=quotetext>Surprise, surprise... most people use the internet to look up pop culture trivia.

I'm worried about the 129,692 people so far this month who went to wikipedia to learn how to masturbate.</div></div>

I'm a little worried about how you know that.

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fishy said:
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<DIV class=quotetitle>? quoting OtZman</DIV>
<DIV class=quotetext>I just rediscovered Urban Dead ( www.urbandead.com ). Is anyone still playing?

I started playing again about a month ago. :biggrin: </div></div>

I'm not sure if I should start playing again or not, I felt the urge to level something up, but then I logged in with my old character with all skills unlocked, and starting over suddely felt a bit pointless. :razz:
The sick thing is how incredibly addicted I was to the game the first time around, and how I posted updates on my character etc in the snarkpit thread. Proof of how little graphics matter when it comes to good games.

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