I can't see any reason to fork out for a 1024 x 768 non-computer.

Quote from amp88 :

Just finished watching Night On Earth.

Great movie

It's been very well recieved by a lot of people, so quite curious now to give it a go.

I was really looking forward to Dragon Age Origins until it actually came out. It seemed Bioware had settled on a very plain looking fantasy setting, not much imagination in the characters. Lost interest.

Mass Effect 2 looks good though. I'm disappointed I didn't play through the first game now because apparently you'll get more out of the second game by doing so.

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one who thinks the over-the-shoulder cam is silly

That's probably what turned me off the original Mass Effect. I couldn't get into Gears of War either... But it works fine in Batman, Arkham Asylum and we seemed to get by fine in those old RPG games with the top down or isometric views.

I think too many modern games are simply looking for a reason to use DOF/motion blur, rather than letting the game design itself justify its inclusion where and when appropriate. In the latest NFS game, the dash blurs out when you start going fast- which is nuts.

IPCC and Pachauri have been copping a fair bit of flak lately...


In the press,


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/t ... onment/article6991177.ece

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/t ... onment/article6994774.ece

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new ... rified.html#ixzz0dUoPiTkG

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/t ... l&offset=0&page=1

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/t ... onment/article7000063.ece

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/com ... -Glaciergate-scandal.html



In the blogs,


http://wattsupwiththat.com/201 ... rrogance-claim-backfires/

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/01/23/highnoon-for-pachauri/

http://nofrakkingconsensus.blo ... ons-in-nobel-winning.html

http://climateaudit.org/2010/0 ... rs-and-sunday-in-england/

Wave is ok, has some great features, but I haven't really settled in to the idea of 'fluid' emailing yet. Having all your emails turned into a series of nested and editable chats feels a bit daunting (I struggle with organisation on a daily basis) but I'm probably just a bit slow on the uptake.

As Kev says, this would probably work really well for group project type things where lots of media needs to be passed back and forth quickly between people and commented on.

For 'regular' emailing type purposes though, the old way seems better.

lost in translation?

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Crashgate 3
What would you DO for 8 days without being able to move?

I can barely sit still for 8 minutes without going spare.

Stuff like that is really heavy. It's a miracle the boy didn't die from lack of water/food/boredom/etc. Impossible almost to fathom

Makes me think of the guy who was trapped in an elevator for 41 hours years ago. When I read his story I couldn't stop thinking about what it must have been like. It you haven't seen his video and you weren't phobic of elevators before, you will be slightly afterwards...

http://www.newyorker.com/onlin ... 08/04/21/080421_elevators

The lyrics aren't funny, but I suppose people are laughing at the Egyptian/Aussie kid's imitation of the American rapper style and his amateurishness (you only get millions of hits on Youtube if you're super good, super bad or cute). I say good on him, he's giving it a go and if it helps him to pull a girlfriend then all the better.

Quote from Dajmin :

Would rather see a remake of Dizzy or Monty Mole

Here's a good remake of Monty. Not sure if he'd do too well in 3D

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I fondly remember playing Quazatron (same game I believe) on the Spectrum!!!

Yeah, looks very similar, although I'd not heard of it until just now.

This is great news!

I've had the idea for awhile to do a remake of the C64 game Paradroid in the Unreal Engine. I'd forgotten about this idea until yesterday when I remembered this thread.

Looking forward to Fantastic Mr Fox.

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Originally Posted by elequin
I dont know if theres any WoW addicts out there, but after seeign Avatar I have lost all desire to play


Heh, I cancelled my account yesterday after 3 years. I tried playing after the movie and just kinda stopped, stood there, and realized it was all way beyond pointless.

Looks like the movie is actually having some kind of positive effect


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While I was in the movie the first four times these thoughts never surfaced, as soon as I entered the movie for the fifth time I started to experience strong.. urges.. lol. The Na'vi are now more attractive to me than people are. I am having trouble looking at my gf the same way and unless I can do something about her I am certain we will have serious relationship troubles because of it. I don't know whether I should simply embrace the beauty of the Na'vi or reject it for my mere human urges. I am here to ask your advice, or to seek your counsel. I would like to ask her to dress up as a Na'vi but I am unsure about how this request will be received... Even then, she will not match their beauty, *sigh*

Eek. And maybe some not so positive effects

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Quote from DeadWolfBones :

http://avatar-forums.com/showthread.php?t=43

I just hope most of those posters are very young.

When the film 'The Neverending Story' came out (I was 8) I couldn't stop thinking about it and I wanted desperately to be Atreyu. I also read the book about 8 times because I couldn't get enough of that place.

Hugo Largo - Hot Day

(off the Mettle album) Freshly uploaded to Youtube

Great stuff Woz I've been listening to Drum all day.


I got on to Hugo Largo through the bass player, Tim Sommer- who also played bass in Glenn Branca's 'guitar orchestras' from '83-'86 (he later left Glenn's group to focus on Hugo Largo stuff full time).

PS, the singer (Mimi Goese) has her own solo album out called 'Soak'. Some good songs on there as well- although maybe a little over produced for some of the older fans used to the sparser sound of Hugo Largo.


* Not sure if you knew or not, just trying to be helpful. Before your comment just then, I don't think anyone on the forum had responded with any interest to my (yeah, sometimes obscure) recommendations :Kick_Can_


http://www.amazon.com/Soak-Mim ... qid=1262856171&sr=8-1

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Quote from Shotglass :

but for what its worth as far as outrage over avatar goes... this is easily the most enjoyable type
http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/42142803.html

Oh jethus chrithhst...

Last edited by Electrik Kar, Thu, 7 Jan 2010 03:04.

Quote from Zay :

Well, I am quoting from discovery channel on that one. But I have heard some pretty wack stories like they predicted when a white man would come into thier territory, and it did infact happen that a group of white warriors invaded thier land. I am not sure if it is true but still...

I think you're refereing to, and I'm only going by memory- the event that right about the time when the Mayans were expecting a return of one of there Gods- Quetzalcoatl, the Spanish showed up instead.


:inq:

I'm pretty sure that exactly this will happen.

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It predicted things that are even today, impossible or nearly impossible to predict.

What do you mean?

Try Jakg's 'How to Make LFS look Better' guide.

You can have a look through the comments to see if a problem applies to your specific case.

From the way it sounds you may have a driver issue, or you mightn't be applying enough anisotropic filtering. The high res textures really benefit from the maximum allowed, 16x or so. Anything less and the textures will start to play up over a certain distance, which may be giving you that jagged effect.

The other thing to check is which resolution you're running LFS in. Higher resolutions of course give a more defined, less pixelated look. You shouldn't need too much AA at extreme high resolutions. 4x is good enough for most purposes.