How political.

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That, boys and girls, is why emo kids shouldn't take hallucinogens.

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Lol at Baron.

:eek: That was very scary for aaron_da_killa. :eek: Yess, interesting but very scary... :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

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edit (2): Holy cow the halopedia is so cool. EG: that the alien words spoken by Jackals and Elites are simply reversed English phrases?

edit (3): Holy cow these halopedia guys are hardcore halo dudes. Sick!!

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Interesting vid, didn't quite get it till the end though.

And aaron, please..please stop being a retarded halo zealot, there is pretty much a wiki for everything, nothing new there.

and cut down on the smilies.

Deus Ex3 is in the works!

Please don't screw up this time, Warren!

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Why snark works.

Map & Mod contest for $25,000 worth of prizes you say? http://www.gameflood.com/Index.cfm/Mod/Contest/stgAct/ContestLanding
You can enter any map you've released from 1/1/2006 onward, the deadline for entries is June 16.

Gives me a reason to try and finish DM_Soylent in the next couple weeks...

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Is that june 16 of 2009. Hmm might enter reddawn. :biggrin:

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OMG this is sweet. http://youtube.com/watch?v=q1VBakEcIbk I love halo humour. Ahhhhh... :biggrin: .

ROFL

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You have to be 18 or older to become eligable for that Gameflood contest.

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Blog: www.playingarchitecture.net
LinkedIn: Eric Lancon
Twitter:@Riven202

Ohh, too bad for aaron, then he'll have to wait for at least another six years.

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I'm going to do Gameflood's contest, anyone else?

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Also change the texture of the dock. Docks are rarely tile. -Facepunch
As I Lay Dying

yes. More like 3 years but , .

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I'm gonna get my ass in gear on Soylent and try to get it done in time to enter, it'll be my first released map :razz:

http://www.gameflood.com/ContestRules said:
Contestants who are under the age of 18 may participate through the entrance of a parent or legal guardian.

I can think of at least a few people at this site who should definitely enter.

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hell no...

Don't ask me why I post so much disturbing s**t lately, but the blogs I read have fun doing some kind of unplanned horror week. It's like in "The Ring": If I post it somewhere else I feel better but a hundred other people have to watch it :biggrin:

Check out the full list, too!

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http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/11/steve-jobs-live-from-wwdc-2007/

During the WWDC07, Id gave a first glimpse of their new engine (which will have a full ... or some sort of unveiling at E3 next month). Click on the link and scroll down to the 10:12 AM area.

Apparently, each map has about 20GB worth of unique textures that can be altered significantly by artists with very low performance hits. I would assume these "20GB" are significantly compressed, but as a first glimpse the world looks fairly impressive from a detail standpoint.

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

Err, those "20 GB" textures look really blurry from the screenshots.

That's due at least in part to the fact that those aren't screenshots, they're photos of a projector screen, not exactly the crispest media.

Good find Crono

From what little we have to go on, here's what I saw:
[*] First shot: Looks like motion blur or a similar effect, a lot like many other current and next gen engines.
[*] Second: The large balloons in the distance appear to have sunlight illuminating the back side through the material. Either that or it's just textured like that, the balloon and banners in the foreground don't seem to have this effect. The distance fog looks good. It looks like there could be self shadowing on the buggy, hard to tell though.
[*] Third: The hand rail is casting a shadow on the dude's legs, and the dude looks like he's standing in mid air above the platform, I assume as the result of using a canned animation meant for flat ground on an incline. You can notice some edge aliasing on the banner on the left. More good-looking distance fog.
[*] Fourth: The character looks decent enough, the face is a little lifeless in terms of the texture, no sub surface scattering or the like a la Crysis that I can make out. Looks a lot like a face you might expect to see in a Doom 3 engine game. It doesn't look like there's any self shadowing in this shot.
Not a lot to go on, but it looks to be on par with a lot of new current gen engines.

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Not that it would show more detail, but here's Tech 5: The Motion Picture

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEUGivP8ZOc

just.. wow. i'm no opera fan, but just gave me goosebumps. especially coming from such a modest looking/acting dude.

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the players tried to take the field
the marching band refused to yield

I learned (because I tried this in one of my weird impulses) that you can drag files onto the command prompt to bring up the path to them. This is a big help, because Valve keeps breaking the SDK and the GUIs people write for tools like vtex or bspzip are inop.

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I'm allergic to tequila, it makes me break out in felonies.

Bewbies said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEUGivP8ZOc

just.. wow. i'm no opera fan, but just gave me goosebumps. especially coming from such a modest looking/acting dude.

Nice one. I gotta get myself some opera music and listen to.

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this is sooo cool! I just found it, but I think it's been on for a while. It's LEGO Half-Life!! here.

[EDIT] Sorry about that, try this link. And oh yea, there's two other videos that continue the story! it's so awsome! (links on the page)

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LinkedIn: Eric Lancon
Twitter:@Riven202

Are you sure the link's correct? I can't see anything LEGO related in that video... am I missing something? =/

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Well, the link works now (for me at least). It's really pretty awesome.

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<DIV class=quote>
<DIV class=quotetitle>? quoting Riven</DIV>
<DIV class=quotetext>

[EDIT] Sorry about that, try this link. And oh yea, there's two other videos that continue the story! it's so awsome! (links on the page)

</DIV></DIV>
Haha nice one !

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http://www.break.com/index/ridiculously-cool-technology-from-microsoft.html impressed me.

RedWood said:
http://www.break.com/index/ridiculously-cool-technology-from-microsoft.html impressed me.

Interesting.

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I recently found this picture in my email's inbox along with this message...



"I knew you would like it, bitch."

Its from a freind.

Just wanted to share the pic

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Aaron's Stuff

I know I wont get any replies on this but I found these extreamly interesting:

http://nikon.bungie.org/misc/halorama/

http://nikon.bungie.org/misc/halorama/?p=h2

There Panoramic views of Halo and Halo2, the first link being halo. Really have a look at the pictures. I've no idea why but there really interesting.

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What's that game... "Haloo" you're talking about? I've never heard of it.

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Why snark works.

No no no, you got it all wrong! It's "hallo" not "haloo".

[edit]

Wait wait i've gots it! It's

(haro)

no youre all wrong. last time I checked it was called: ??2▬♀∟?2?☺

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Hmm is that arbitrary or is it really using some different encoding?

you hold [alt] than press any random set of number pad keys than let go of [alt]. Its a bit tricky to do.

For example:

? is 225

? is 488

▲ 5 is 30

Oh and I think you have to have numlock enabled

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Andrei said:
Wait wait i've gots it! It's

(haro)

Ba kou?

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• My yr11 Economics teacher

Ba kou?

Pretty close - katakana ha (ba has a ten) + katakana ro (kou? yeah it does look alot like the kanji) :dorky:

No, hanzi ba1 kou3.

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• My yr11 Economics teacher

No, hanzi

Ooh, mandarin chinese, sorry.
So, you can speak it?

I can speak as much as they can teach in half a year, so just basic conversational stuff. Its already useful though, theres enough chinese speakers doing engineering here that I can get as much practice as I need. Very interesting to learn.

Can you speak much Japanese? If you read what you posted as Kanji, does it mean the same as it would in Chinese? "Eight of...", doenst translate into english well but it should be followed by "people" or something.

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• My yr11 Economics teacher

I speak enough to get by but not enough to have a decent conversation. I especially lack in the speaking skills department because there aren't any japanese here at all.

I'm not sure what reading that compound would have. Maybe yakou or something , which doesn't make any sense.
When taken separately they do mean 8 (hachi) and mouth (kuchi) (but not 8 mouths) though. I'm not even sure how you say 8 mouths (what counter to use, or if a counter for... erm holes even exists etc).

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the players tried to take the field
the marching band refused to yield

xD

Well, the second character does mean "mouth", but as far as I know its generally used as a smaller part of more complex characters. It's a measure word (counter?) for people in a family.

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Bewbies said:
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Haha I gotta see Pulp Fiction again

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Quake Wars Public Beta. It appears it will be open to non-paying file planet users in a couple days.

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

Quakewars? I really hope that game isn't like Quake 3.

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Quake Wars Public Beta.

OH SNAP

EDIT
Such a shame it's on fileplanet. The Strogg are one of my all time favorite scifi villians. So damn cool.

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Nothing like Quake 3 aaron - more like Enemy Territory and Battlefield, only with Marines vs. Stroggs.

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Just found out I only got 96% on my last course (7.5 ECTS points). Altough that's good enough for an A I really aimed for 100% on this one, and I felt like I made it.... oh wellz.

And, I just rediscovered how freaking amazing Google Earth is. It's mindblowing to look at all the small 3d buildings in big cities like Tokyo and New York.

Speaking of Google, if you go to http://www.google.com/ig you can log in using your gmail account, then customize you own start page. I discovered a couple of days ago that you now can set you own theme for this page, and this theme will change style depending on the time of the day at your location. So during the day there will for example be a sun in the theme, and during the night there will be a moon instead, and the colors will change to darker ones, etc. Simple but awesome. :biggrin:

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I got Steam working on a Ubuntu install ... I can play all my favorite games :smile:

Performance is a tadbit below Windows (I have an Ati card, and Ati driver support for linux is ... dissapointing. It'll get better someday ...)

http://forceflow.ulyssis.be/temp/steam_ubuntu.jpg

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this theme will change style depending on the time of the day at your location. So during the day there will for example be a sun in the theme, and during the night there will be a moon instead, and the colors will change to darker ones, etc. Simple but awesome. :biggrin:

Theres an easter egg included in most/all of the themes too, at a certain time of the night, the theme will have something different happening to the norm, cant remember the exact time but I think its somewhere near 3am.

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