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computer gaming worlds is not a mag ive ever seen before, is it a new publication or has anyone else seen it? a interesting one being done by pc powerplay is that with their promotional DVD on the front, 100 copies will have the full version of far cry next month. Not quite a competition and not quite free distribution, but a really neat idea :D

Rehab? Hung over? Who's to say? :)

It is holiday time now, so that may have a bit of an effect on it as well.

i was away for a few days on easter holiday, did you miss me?

i was going to say check moonunits post count......

damn... your right ... look at yours tho inglis, christ!!! 743 posts... good god man.

ive been around longer.... :)

i meant posts per day count.

heh what can i say, its holidays :P

go to bali, illegal...but cheap!

yeh fully...Bali is THE place for any sort of cheap software...

........that rarely works

Sorry Souri, had no idea it was a peer vote competition.

i didnt vote as only like 50% of the games worked on my system, due to the fact that ive run out of video memory

I'll vote this weekend I think, looks like it could take some time reading everything :)

I'll vote when I have the time to download and evaluate everything, currently it doesn't look like happening for another two weeks. :-(

Need more votes, people! *shakes fist* [:)] It'll only take a small portion of your time!

Still need more people to vote! C'mon!

Just a few days left before voting closes..

Voting will close tonight (Thursday) midnight.

Depends on your processor as well. If you have difficulties running 2k4, it is fair to say that you will have fairly similar difficulties with 2k3. 2k3 is still an older gaem though, so you may be able to run it. Just download the demo and give it a try :)

Now why didn't i think of that! :(

UT2k4 is actually pretty good at running on most systems, even if they are dodgy and all theres a fair chance it will run, not terribly well ofcourse but it should. Also UT2k4 and 2k3 arent all that different spec wise, so if your having problems with one, its pretty fair to say youll probably have problems with the other.

I don't like your chances with that video card. The lowest spec machine I've run 2k3 on was a PIII 800 w/640mb PC133 RAM and a 32mb GeForce 2 MX. It ran okay but most settings were on lowest.

If you can afford it, you can pick up a GeForce 4 MX for under $80 these days.

I would seriously recommend NOT buying Unreal Tournament 2003 under any circumstances, unless you can get it for $10 or something. UT2k3 server support is dropping like flies since Ut2k4 has come out so you're most likely not going to find many people to play with online. Getting Ut2k4 means you get all the assets of Ut2k3 anyway.
But yeh, definately need a more beefier system for either game.

Well it runs pretty well, but im thinking of buying a mx440 of my freind, he's givin it to me for 40 bucks. It's got bots, i don't mind if i cant play online, just want to play for fun. I don't play quake 3 online.

I think the video card is my only problem. otherwise it will go pretty good, i have a 1.5 ghz Cpu. Just one question do you really need 3 Gb of Hdd space

heh with all the official downloads and such, map packs and so on that were released in unreals timeline, it was over 4gbs on my comp :P

UT2k4 demo runs ok on my athlon 600, 128mb RAM, most settings low.
I think your problem is just your gfx card, as your cpu and RAM are more than fine to play ut2k4 well.
I have a gf4 mx440 btw and it does a fine job.
I get about 15fps offline generally, although it drops a bit at times. Thats purely a problem with cpu and ram though, not graphics.
Online it sometimes drops to 5fps or so :/
But you might as well just get ut2k4, you can probably get it for like $50 or something new quite easily (i think the CD version only retails for like $70!)
CYer, Blitz

OK, thanx blitz, i'll get an mx440 and then buy UT2K4, is yours a 64 mb card.

w0000t i just bought the MX440 of a friend and it runs 2K3 like a charm, now for 2K4

Edit: I just downloaded and played it, it works really well.

I wasn't going to, but I guess I should get along. It may be worth it for the cosplaying (if there is any) :)

Now I just have to decide which anime shirt I should wear...

Maybe the Sumea's can meet up? Heh.

But you would probably look queer with such a young innocent chunk of youth next too you [:p].

Speaking of plays ive got one on tonight in about 2 hours infront of a paying audience at Tuggeranong youth centre [:p].

I coulda sworn the ANU anime club had a convention last year as well...
Aaaanyway, wrong state :P
CYer, Blitz

Yeah. If you would like to meet up that is cool. Chances are though, that you will look more bizarre standing next to me :p I'll be getting out there early, so if you want to meet up, just give me a time and place.

I'm pretty sure that Canberra has had some Anime conventions as well. I haven't seen any comicons down here for ages :(

I might be getting out there... im not sure yet though! Meeting up is fine, i'll probably be going with a friend so it will be two young youthful guys with you [:p].

As for Anime conventions, i think there have been some but not fully recognised, sponsored etc...
So im not sure...

On another note it is a certainly interesting weekend. Australian Idol auditions at the Canberra stadium (No, im not auditioning) and an Anime convention! [:p].

Wow! Bigworld looks great!! (from what I can see anyway [:)])

If you're interested in submitting the article on Sumea, give me a yell [;)] Would love to have it on here.

Wow, GDC looks professional. Where's the "Worlds largest TV" and the "Hobbit Homes" or the Bright lights and blasting music. What a world of difference between a GDC and E3.

I've been pretty slack posting due to keeping up with deadlines.

Here's my GDC photos.

http://www.groovyaudio.com/gdc/

enjoy.

List o' Loot...

Stuff i'm keeping:
CRI Japanese Fan
Cute little comic from the CRI booth called "Tell me about middleware" in english and japanese.
Nintendo recruitment pack
Mouse pads, dolby, endorphin
UBISoft/Red Storm Ent. Stubby holder
Logitech clock/calculator thing
Oddworld collector cards
S3 Temporary tattoos
5 music CD's from MagnaTune
Semi Logic Ent. Tshirt
S3 Bag
Climax Group breath mints in a funky container
Game Developer mag, march/april
Animation mag (april/GDC issue)
Develop mag march
Computer Graphics World mag, march

Stuff i'm giving away (mostly as part of sumea comps or something probably):
S3 Temporary tattoos
Oddworld collector cards
Perforce Balsawood glider
2 RAD foam gliders
UBISoft/Red Storm stubby holder
4 Nintendo recruitment packs
2 Everquest Trilogy CD packs (everquest + first 2 expansions i think, apparently it also comes with a 1 month free trial, but not sure)
Bodypaint/maxon cardboard 3d(?) glasses
Thomson Course Technology shaker/bottle opener
In-fusio cloth bag
Develop mag (march) unread
Game State mag (spring 2004) read
ATI paper/plastic bag (i doubt anyone would actually want this...but it's here :))
I'll also consider giving away the mags at some point in the future if people REALLY want them after they've been well read by other people (they'll probably sit on my desk at work for a while first :))

Unfortunately i apparently missed out on some awesomely cool lightsaber pens that lucasarts were giving out (damn me and my "I don't need another pen"). Check gamedev.net's coverage for pictures of said pen.
If you're wondering why so many nintendo recruitment packs, they come in a funky gamecube game box which i quite fancied and thought others might :)
CYer, Blitz

quote:Originally posted by Blitz
List o' Loot...

wow. I mean wow. how'd you carry all that booty back with you? I didn't bother with loot this year, I hardly had time to get around the expo floor. I spent most of my time networking, catching up with friends from last year, and meeting clients I've been dealing with only on line.

Oh I did get some Gameboy Advance SP putty again this year, but I did come home with a Tapwave Zodiac, and a new digital 8mp camera and a bunch of free Game magazines.

Did your company sponsor you to go?

From what I heard about the GDC from the floor of the AGDC is that you go to the GDC to learn stuff more than socialise, while you go to the AGDC to socialise more than learn...

Well, i collected my loot over the thursday and friday. I had a decent size bag with me, and those ATI/S3 bags came in handy when my main bag filled up :)
If you mean carry back from that states...it *just* managed to fit in the bag i took over, my bag was only about half full when i went over, and bursting on the way back (although that included a couple books/manga i'd bought) although the list looks long, it didn't take up THAT much space.
Theres plenty of socialising to be done at GDC, but a lot of the talks there are of high quality and are worth going to. I think perhaps the reason people may say AGDC s for socialising, is it's simply so small, it doesn't have the trade expo like the GDC has. A lot of people go to GDC to check out middleware/hardware/asset control solutions etc., this just doesn't happen at the AGDC because it's too small.
My company didn't sponsor me to go, i won the trip to GDC as a prize for the programmer scholarship at AIE last year.
CYer, Blitz

damn, and to think about the best loot i got from AGDC was a coffee cup....

Hey, don't undervalue the value of a good coffee cup! :-P

He didn't say it was a GOOD coffee cup... :)
CYer, Blitz

it holds coffee, what more do you want :P

It holds a decent amount of coffee too! More than most of my other mugs/cups.

oh, that's the bullant one right? that's my favourite mug :)

I'm downloading this now. Will give comments when I'm done [:)]

Yummy :)

why is he standing around in an abandoned town killing zombies exactly?

looks nice though.

more fun than standing around in an abandoned town being killed by zombies.

those arent zombies, beleive it or not, they are people in a trance, so in fact you could be going around butchering innocent people who have no control over their actions. Sounds more fun that way :)

So is the over the shoulder perspective what RE4 is gonna use? The camera seems so impersonal that it really takes away from the games immersiveness (Surely the games biggest draw card).

Don't you think the camera just seems to be floating everywhere?

There are two camera modes. Third person and first person. You can swtich between either at any time, I think.
The video is great. Awesome visuals, which I think everyone expects from Capcom. Love the sea creature, and love the big monster guy too.
I've played through Resident Evil 1,2 and 3, and this certainly feels different. It's definately for the best though, since playing 3 was like "yep, this game again".
No idea what that Killer 7 game that was in the trailer was all about, and that game where you're an alien making people angry at the end was pretty wacky. [:)]

That is an odd one. When you un-install a Windows app, it seems to leave crap in your registry. You may want to try getting a registry cleaning tool or even try going in and deleting PS's settings by hand. I don't think it will do too much to help, but if you are desperate to try you can give it a go.

reformat....... [:O]

What version of windows are you running? What was your old CPU? What is your new CPU?

Older versions of Windows never seemed to deal terribly well with some hardware upgrades. Sadly this sort of crash is going to be really hard to pinpoint and fix.

Aven - yup, tried that one.. I even installed painter classic - which seems to work with no problems..

Hazard - nooooooooo!!

Barry - XP Pro, old P2.4 celeron, new p2.8e prescott

Hmm, I wouldn't think XP should have any problems with that upgrade then. The next thing to suggest is making sure you have all the latest relevant driver and service packs for Photoshop, XP Pro, your graphics card and your tablet or whatever you use.

If all of that doesn't help there's probably not alot we can do except suggest trying a different version of Photoshop or at the extreme end of the scale, a reformat as Hazard suggests.

Stop tellin' him to format his computer, this isn't some kind of computer repair shop :D

lol yeah I did say it was the extreme end of the scale...

i think a format will eventually be needed... I'm very reluctant to do it though.. I've just got my computer where I want it (except for the photoshop dramas, of course).. so beh

I have sometimes had to reformat courtesy of Photoshop. I mostly get the text size problem, you select size 8 font but instead you get a size 36 font [:(] and if you try 1 size font you get like 15 size font [:(].

Sometimes Photoshop can be a bitch.

never come across that one - bob, i reformat every month or 2 - helps keep me system in ship shape - ive only got a bodgy ol beast as well, so i need to.

Your motherboard could be the problem going from a celeron to a prescott chip - my dad just had the same problem with his laptop - i just remembered after reading the original post again -
does your entire computer hang ? or can you carry on opening up other programs ?

find out what chipsets your motherboard runs - and jump onto the pcuser / pcformat home pages and see if you cant find some help on there ....

sounds awfully alot like my dads laptop tho - it ended up being a motherbaord fault :(

every other program works fine, I can use the rest of my computer with no problems - even with photoshop 'running' in the background.

i think a format will be in order, and if that doesn't work, a can opening on the mate that sold me this machine.

Have you setup your Scratch Disks in PS. Put the drive with the most amount of free memory as the scratch disk, or if that doesnt work, put the scratch disk as the same drive that PS is installed on.
Make sure that you give it lots of ram as well.

Im on a Celeren 366 right now, with 128Mb SD ram and no video card, feel the power baby!!

My PC is Athlon 1.5 RAdeon 9500 PRO, 256DDR and very little HD space!!

Well atleast you have a collectors item, the Radeon 9500. They seem to be kind of rare now-a-days due to them being expensive to manufacture...

two sticks, some string and piece of bubblegum.

quote:Originally posted by inglis

two sticks, some string and piece of bubblegum.

Judging by that it sounded like someone was in hurry, thus the result of the post [;)]. That and the fact you signed off MSN [:o)].

As for the bubblegum, what type? HubbaBubba, PK or Sugarfree (Despite the fact Wrigley's owns most gums)?

My current system:

AMD Athlon XP1900+
512 DDR Ram
Asus A7V266-E Mainboad
Maxtor 80GB HDD 8mb Cache
ATI Radeon 9500 128mb non-pro - Softmodded to 9700 specs
Creative Soundblaster Audigy ES
Coolermaster Praetorian Case
LG F700P 17" CRT Monitor
Logitech Z-5300 THX Certified 5.1 Channel speakers
Logitech MX Duo Wireless Keyboard & Mouse

The Radeon 9500 was a really good find. I work at the Disc Shop and I found this lying around in our returns department. Hooked it up to our test rig and it seemed to work fine, so I managed to talk my boss into letting me have it for $80.

Took it home and found out that it was the original 9500 design. Exactly the same PCB as a 9700, just 4 of the 8 pixel pipelines were disabled. Usually not all the pipelines will work as ATI uses 9700 chips that fail their QA test. Anyway, I installed the software to open up all the pipelines and it works fine. My UT framerate scores have almost doubled, with no graphical glitches at all!

It was an excellent upgrade from a GF2MX!

In the later half of the year I intend to upgrade my board, cpu and add some more ram.

I just bought Farcry from work today, hopefully it runs alright on my box.

Kinky system, nice find on the graphics card... wonder why it was in the returns department?

Anyhow, keep those systems coming [;)].

I upgraded yesterday *unzips pants*

Okey dokey
P4P800 Mobo (800fsb)
Intel P4 2.8e Cpu
Radeon 9800pro
Audigy 2 Sound Card
Creative inspire 5.1 Speakers(soo loud)
512 ram (the next upgrade)
21 inch sony monitor
40g HD

It's really fast now.. Went from a celeron to a full intel chip yesterday.
*zips up*

quote:Originally posted by Sorceror Bob

I upgraded yesterday *unzips pants*

Okey dokey
P4P800 Mobo (800fsb)
Intel P4 2.8e Cpu
Radeon 9800pro
Audigy 2 Sound Card
Creative inspire 5.1 Speakers(soo loud)
512 ram (the next upgrade)
21 inch sony monitor
40g HD

It's really fast now.. Went from a celeron to a full intel chip yesterday.
*zips up*

My future system beats that (Sort of) so ha! Nah, nice system how do games run? Getting a good FPS rate i would assume?

I know this thread aint much but generally these threads attract heaps of people [:)].

1.4ghz duron
kyro II
1024mb ram
fluffy dice

and here it is in action!
[img]http://www.goerigk-jever.de/BCT-RCT/bct_rak_right_m.jpg[/img]

damn I need an upgrade - it's a good job I really don't -need- anything more for now; only want something better [:)]

My current system was purchased nearly 18 months ago, but here it is.

P4 2.53Ghz
2x512 PC-2700 DDR RAM
128Mb Radeon 9700 Pro
2x60Gb IBM Deskstar HDDs (7200rpm, ATA 100 from an earlier system)
SB Live 5.1 (again from an earlier system)
Pioneer 106-D 4x DVD-RW drive
ASUS 40x CD-RW drive (makes a lot of noise and vibrates a lot so I am thinking of changing it)
All stored in a Lian-Li Alluminium case w/ 450W power supply.

17" Hercules Prophetview 920DVI LCD Monitor
Microsoft Internet Explorer Mouse (five button)
Wacom Intuos2 6x8 tablet
Canon 650U Scanner
Canon i850 Printer
Pioneer Stereo system for my speakers.

I am upgrading my MB and HDDs this week. With any luck, by Friday, I should have dual 250Gb SATA HDDs (non RAID setup). I will also buy a new chair this week (yay, adjustable back rest).
And for the hell of it, a little pic :)
[img]http://home.netspeed.com.au/mlanham/about%20me/comp_01.jpg[/img]

Very nice Aven! And as for you J.I. Styles shame on you for posting that absurd looking computer [:p]. That looks like a damn graphing machine more then anything.

So far we have seen some pretty computers but only one picture... hmmm... crank out the cameras people! [;)].

NOTE: Yes im bored, im commenting on everyones systems.

P4 1.5 Ghz
No idea about the mobo
16 mb Nvidia Vanta :(
1024 mb ram
20 Gb hdd

it's an ibm and they dont leave you to much options for upgrading. If you want to upgrade you can pretty much only get the shit from them otherwise you have to change everything, Mobo, CPU, Ram etc. It ain't state of the art but i can do low poly stuff with it. after about 10000 poly it lags. never done ten thousand polys yet, but i just made a sphere and kept meshsmoothing till i got lag, it happened after about 3.

Custom built seems to be the way to go! That and it saves you a ton of ca$h [;)].

Well I'm currently waiting on a few parts to ship in but here's the basic run-down (over-clocking details yet to be finalised)

Asus P4P800S motherboard
Pentium 4 2.8GHz (overclock to mebbe 3.2 or 3.4)
Thermaltake Pentium4 Xaser Copper CPU cooler
Sunon 80mm case fan
AOpen H500W case (soon to be replaced with something better)
ThermalTake Black Silent Purepower 480W PSU
Some Mitsu 17inch CRT black monitor (to suit other black parts)
40Gb Western Digital HDD
512Mb of pc2700 ddr ram (I should get ddr400 but I can't afford to replace my old stuff atm)
ATI-Sapphire Radeon 9600 Pro (to be overclocked upon arrival of...)
Thermaltake GiantII heatpipe videocard cooler
and
CoolerMaster Aerogate 2 Black Thermal controller

Not the most beastly of beasts, but hopefully post-overclocking it may be able to play doom 3 (when it comes out)

As far as i knew the requirements to run Doom III smoothly are a 2.5ghz, 512 DDR and a Radeon 9800 128m. But overclocking wont harm anything just improve things unless of course you kill the parts [:p].

Overall it seems that everyones planning to buy parts etc... for the new generation of games, Doom III, Half-Life 2 and FarCry etc...

Keep them systems a comin'!

My system has been ordered, should be ready in a week!

P4 3.0ghz 800fsb
asus p4p800 deluxe i865PE motherboard
1.5 gig pc3200 kingston ddr ram
120 gig sata HD
Liteon Cd writer/dvd player
GeXcube radeon 9600xt 256mb
Benq 19 inch LCD
Creative inspire 2.1 T2900 speakers
Cooler master alloy keyboard
logitech mx500 mouse

It's a big step up from a P3 600 with an 8 gig hd and a TNT 2 graphics card..

The family comp is an athlon 1700xp with 256 megs of ram and a geforce 3. It can't really handle larger file formats in photoshop at 300dpi. A3 sized or higher and it starts to kill the ram. :/

2 gig Athlon
512mb of ram
160 gig HD
Radeon 9600XT (Saphire)
A cheapo optical mouse (which is so much better than a normal mouse with mouseball)
Wacom Graphire 2

Over a year ago I had a Celeron 300mhz cpu, 20gig HD, Geforce 2mx, 512mb ram.. [:D]

P4, 3.2 gig, 800 fsb
2 gig ram
some generic 128meg graphics card
19 inch flat screen monitor
Dvd multi burner
2 x 80 gig hard drives

+ stuff.
My pants are down by my ankles and I?m blowing in the breeze

Pantmonger

HP Laptop with a Cely 2ghz in it. One of them useless little touchpad thingies and an undersized keyboard.

Will be sorting out a real PC when I have a job and house and stuff.

:)

quote:Originally posted by Pantmonger

P4, 3.2 gig, 800 fsb
2 gig ram
some generic 128meg graphics card
19 inch flat screen monitor
Dvd multi burner
2 x 80 gig hard drives

+ stuff.
My pants are down by my ankles and I?m blowing in the breeze

Pantmonger

Very nice Pantmonger! The only thing i see wrong is the no-name graphics card, give it a name... how about Sumea 128m AGP X8 video card [;)].

Athlon 2600+ @ ~2090 gigamahertz
512 MB RAM
19" Monitor of some description...
GeForce 4 Ti4200 128MB vivo
dunno about motherboard...
40GB Seagate HDD

looking to get another HDD soon

Aven: You have the same monitor as a friend of mine...

Currently my system stands at:
Pentium 4 2.4GHz
512MB 333DDR RAM
MSI 845PE-Max2 Motherboard
ASUS Radeon 9800 XT Video Card
Creative Soundblaster Live! DE 5.1
Seagate 80GB 7200rpm HDD + Western Digital 160GB 7200rpm HDD
LG 52x/52x/24x CD Burner
Pioneer 40x/16x DVD Drive

Currently all using standard coolers, but I might change that in future since it would be better to have a cooler running box.

And Maitrek, I see that you're getting a very beefy system for games, maybe you'll be able to play some at some future lans eh? :-)

Daemin - It is a damn cool monitor. Pity you can't buy them any more. I got a dead pixel in the first week and it disapeared after another week (no it wasn;t dust or anything). I also had my Start Bar burned into the screen as I always leave it on. I left it off for three days (Sydney trip), and it is fine again. It is just such a cool monitor :D Also, what is you LG burner like? I have always been pretty sceptical of LG products, but people tend to rave about their burners. Is it good?

Daemin - yeah I'm getting prepped for this thursday right :P
Just need to get the cooling stuff so my crusty Radeon 9600 Pro will be able to keep up (wish I had a bloody 9800XT)

Aven: Well a lot of people snigger when I tell them I have an LG burner, but really I have experienced nothing wrong with it at all. They seem to think that its a doidgy brand or something, but it's all good.

Picture time again! This would have to be one of the geekiest things I've done...

[img]http://members.optusnet.com.au/~cmcmurr/mypic18.jpg[/img]

specs:

Athlon XP 2100+ (1.7Ghz)
Asus A7V333 mobo
Geforce 4 Ti4200 128MB
1Gig Ram
dual 17 inch monitors
80GB seagate HDD

Nothing else that's worth mentioning.

I can't recommend the use of dual montiors enough, the space is amazing, you'll never want to go back.

Oh yeah, that's my tablet underneath the piece of paper on the right.

hey Wizenedoldman, you have the same PC case and graphics card as me!

w00t!

w00t indeed my friend, w00t indeed... ;)

I just recieved my new parts yesterday. I now have an ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe Motherboard, dual 250GB (Western-Digital 7200rpm S-ATA). Gives me a grand total of half a terabyte of hard drivey goodness :D I also converted one of my old HDDs into an external HDD.

I wish was, does that count?!?!

On a side note, if I was I would be on the lookout for info on Resident Evil 4 and Metal Gear 3.

Heh. Im a cheap bastard when it comes to expo's and what not.

My hands grab every little freebie that i can, generally i use the technique of get a promotional bag full of promo stuff then just stuff it with other goodies and keep repeating it. Most of the time i come home with 4 or so bags full of bumper stickers, fridge magnets and dozens of brochures...damn i love expos and freebies [:p].

As for E3 i suffer the same fate as millions if not billions of others suffer, the suffering of not going and having to rely on banner filled websites for information [;)].

Doh. Kinda sucks that more people from overseas can't go. I'm kinda lucky because it takes me about 15 minutes to get downtown to the LA Convention Center. So, I'm curious. Besides that Independent game developer conference they are going to have in Melbourne, are there any other video game conventions down there? Or do you all have to go to Europe for that?

There's the Australian Game Developers Conference which is coming November-December. We have a fair few game developer related small events here and there (you can see them listed on the Sumea Calendar). Of course, none of which match up to the spectacle that is E3 though! I would absolutely love to go to E3 one day just to see what it's like (although I hear there's way too many queues to view the good stuff!)

Phht. You don't need to line up to perv on booth babes :D

Weslouie, I'll be there. This'll be my last year I expect though as in July I'll be moving out to Perth and probably leaving the biz. Nothing quite like a mecca to the Bright lights, Thumping Sound, Fake breasts and smiles on the booth babes, and of course seeing the best the industry has to offer. Which for me, is usually found in the Nintendo booth. Oh how I love the Nintendo booth, not only does it offer some of the most Original games in the industry, but the people they hire are not only attractive, but they're knowledgable about the games they are in charge of, something the booth babes just can't pull off.

Souri: Surely you could get a pass to E3 being a member of the press right? I mean you do run a game development website so that should qualify you, heck I mean Penny Arcade usually go IIRC. Although this still requires you saving enough money to go there...

Passes for Media need to be from a "Comercial Media Outlet." What does that mean? Who knows. Anyway if you were interested you can always fill out the registration and see if you get accepted
http://www.e3expo.com/e3expo/registration/media/

For the most part, E3 is pretty relaxed with badge holders. You usually only have your ID checked once to pick up your badge, then after that your ID is never checked. This of course allows us to bring in friends but utilizing our coworkers badges (they go the first day, we "borrow" the badges the following days). Anyway E3 is definitely one of those things that you have to go to at least once in life :)

From what I hear "A well informed source" is a little misleading...

I read that article yesterday and i think it is a little fishy... but anything could happen, its Valve [:p].

I just cant wait to get my dirty hands on Half-Life 2 and Counter-Strike 2 if it ever comes out [:)]. Hell! Im just looking forward to playing with the physics by hitting things etc... [;)].

I remember reading an interview with Gooseman about 2 years ago where he mentioned that he was working on Counterstrike 2 (I mean, it shouldn't really come as a surprise since, well, what else could he have been doing the last few years!). It'll be interesting to see where they take the sequel. I hope it aint just a coat of new paint [;)]

Shipping these cards with a voucher for Half life 2 or this so called "Counterstrike 2" is crap..The release is still unknown for it. by the time it is released there could be even better cards around. heheh i just was looking at the current Adrenalin Vault Pc release list....

June 14 Quarter 2 2004

TEAM FORTRESS 2.......?!

It has a link to the website..and its the same one they have had there for 6 years! the last news update is Dec 2001. Way to go Valve...keep at it, eventially you'll convince us once again it is coming out.

Team Fortress 2 is interesting. It never seemed to be mentioned or talked about much...

The website still hasnt really changed from the many years it has been up...

Valve are probably now updating it for the Half Life 2 engine. I think thats why they gave up on releasing it, because they decided redo it HL2....u know....keep the versions in sync. Im sure it will be awesome either way it comes.

Awesome sworesome i want my Half-Life 2! [;)]

yeah that's really cool. I'm building a web site as wel for myself. The brown thing flying around are cool. I'm using frontpage, are you using flash. How;d you learn to use flash.

Thats some pretty cool stuff, i like the brown flying things too [;)].

How long have you been working on that? I quite like it... now if only i had a computer fast enough to run that website smoothly.

If you want people to actually view your website, make sure you have an easily accessible plain html version as well, as some people don't like fancy flash webpages :)
CYer, Blitz

Alti, I really like your website. I love the atmosphere. What types of games are you aiming to develop?

google is your friend man ;) - i tried this once before and got literally hundreds of free web hosting sites,.. alot of them were shit i admit, but there were the odd good ones that let you upload all kinda files and had pretty decent space limitations too.

that was a while ago now tho 6 months or so... give it a shot anyways.

make your site and gallery, stick it on tripod. apply for hosting on 3dluvr. they will check out your site- if they like your work youll get free hosting.

thats where my site is hosted.

http://www.3dluvr.com/content/userz.php?accreq

Try www.freewebs.com , I use it, it is great, here is my site, www.freewebs.com/actionquake2maps/graphicdesign.html .

hey cody can you use frontpage for it, if not what do you use.

Also check out www.doteasy.com cheap domain registration, no banners, no pop-ups, reliable mail server (most of the time). I use it for my site.

I want free, i am only 16 and don't really want to pay anything at all.

[url]www.brinkster.com[/url]

its what ive used in the past, very good and very reliable

but none of the free ones let you use frontpage

i guess i'll just stick with tripod

dont use frontpage. doesnt it fill your html with a heap of useless code anyway?

like i said- im with 3dluvr. its free, unlimited space etc .and my site is listed in the artist community.
no ads.
worry free.

try for that.

yeah but i don't have elite art to display like you it's just ocasional low poly stuff.
heres the link: shreik1.tripod.com
just copy and paste it in the address bar. to see it. It is a WIP

inglis you wouldnt beleive the amount of useless code the frontpage puts in, i made something with frames once, a simple menu down the left hand side, managed to like fill the screen with code just to initiate the frames, a hell of a lot of 0 values and such.

php via dreamweaver seems to be the more preffered option

as far as hosting goes, the free ones are all built on pre-made templates and such and a lot (like goecities and homestead) have their own programs with which to build the site that are very limited, as is the space youll have.

tripod's ok, you can use frontpage and you get 20 mb, which is plenty for me.

www.findmyhost.com is ok to find a free host, i know a guy who offers free hosting. www.digitalwebnetwork.com . Souri, i know this is way off topic, but I was wondering how much bandwidth a month Sumea goes through.

Bullet, you can use front page with it, all I do is just open front page, and do the site, than copy the HTML code into the website edit for your web pages.

Im (Well i think/hope) the co-webmaster of http://www.Game-Point.net (New site design coming soon via Me [:p]). My online friend owns the site, the only trouble is he has a limit of five sub-domains [:(]... i suppose i could try and get you a personal folder website thing like http://www.game-point.net/bullet/ [:p].

my website is comin along guys go have a look. I don't know if it is slow or not. cos i have cable. I haven't done the gallery yet, it's all i need to do. Nearly finished.
[url]shreik1.tripod.com[/url]

if it doesn't work just copy and past shreik1.tripod.com into the address bar, no www or it won't work.

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet
:)

http://archive.gamespy.com/gdc2004/

Gamespy's coverage of the GDC 2004...

its not spyware, its whats called a hijacker.

Start by locating and downloading hijackthis, its a program which identifys possible files on your computer that could be the hijacker, do not however delete anything (there are important files that will be identified as possible hijackers in that search), post your log on http://forum.tweakxp.com/forum/forum_posts_view.asp?TID=8675 and someone there will tell you what to delete and advise you further.

i had the same problem myself once so thats why i know :P it might help to visit windows update aswell and make sure you have some sort of firewall running

Simple. First, download and run AdAware. Secondly, download Firefox from mozilla.org and use that instead of IE. Mmmm... tabs, popup blocking and standards compliance.

Apologies if you already do this.

I would suggest Ad-aware from lavasoft as well. So far that free program has been the best at ridding my computer with annoying "ad-ware." Although I've never had a hijacker so who knows. In a related note, in terms of blocking popups, I've found the Google Toolbar is freak'n sweet for this! Plus Google is my main search engine anyways so the convinience plus the popup blocker makes it a winning combination in my book :)

Good luck getting rid of it though.

yup, i got adaware and haven't had any probs since.

i think almost all those game trading places ask for money...i think there is a website called [url]http://www.gametrade.com.au[/url]...they r good but charge money still...

what games do you want to trade? i might be intrested!

I've just found a free website where you can list anything for sale and pays nothing. I just found a mobile phone for $40.
here is the site http://cracker.com.au/

Toshi

actually theres the odd australian gaming site around with forums designated for this sort of trade, i wont mention any names though because they hold some competition to this forum.

Maybe Souri should start up a "buy/sell your second hand games here" thread and let people sort out the actual exchanging of money for goods themselves.

i have MotoRacer (1) if anyone wants it.

[img]http://www.intelligamer.com/action/motorace/moto02.jpg[/img]

lol dear god, i remember that, actually i think it was no. 2 i had. Got it with my first ever joystick :P

i just recently gave away 98% of my games to a young kid I know. (TA, Hitman, Warcraft 3, Quake 1/3, Age Of Empires etc...)
(i never played them anymore and he wanted them for his first computer....im too kind.)

Only games I have left now are:
Unreal (1)
Messiah, StarTrek New Worlds (Never played them, came with video card)
NBA Drive 2000. (oh yeah...5$ bargain bin material there....come on. i know you want it lol)

any takers?

yeah me, can i have your computer and your house as well also if you are feeling kind chuck yourself in. :)

errr.....i can handle giving away games that have sat in the cd wallet for years . thats where i draw the line.

Dont forget your books, i already raided you of two books, got anymore good ones? lol.

As for game trading... im not sure... maybe in the future i'll set up a game trading thing... so Souri wanna hand over a sub-domain [:p].

THe last movie i saw at the movies was The Last Samurai - and i really enjoyed that, even jerked a few tears, theres just something about samurai's and their honorable way of life - thats always amazed me... i think everyone should see that movie.

I've heard a lot of bad points about Underworld. Can't comment on it personally though as I haven't seen it.

I have a friend who has been bugging me to watch Battle Royale for a while. I should rent it sometime..

I felt Underworld was a bit underwhelming, really. Indeed, wait for the DVD.

Must see: City of God. Almost like a Pulp Fiction set in 1970s Brazil. If I had seen it last year, I might have called it the best movie I saw last year. But I saw it this year, so it's the one to beat for me. It's finished it's theatrical run and is on video/dvd.

I saw Underworld the other day.
I thought it was just a bit of fun, with good action, effects and a great atmosphere (and some cool violence!). The plot wasn?t that bad, if a little slow, but overall I enjoyed watching it. It wasn?t any worse then other gothic set films, in my opinion.

Though there are two negative things that I?ve heard people say about it, which I would love to counter:

?It?s a Matrix clone.? Why, because they wear black leather? There was no bullet-time, no alternate realities, and no agents? If it?s a Matrix clone, then so is every other movie set in a gothic environment.

?Why would vampires and werewolves use guns? That?s stupid?. Well, think about it ? if you had to try and kill someone, would you rather use your teeth, or a couple of rapid-fire semi-automatic machine pistols?

Anyway, that?s just my bit to combat the negativity about a film that really shouldn?t be taken so seriously. [:)] - Though if I had to rate it, I?d only give it 3 stars ? really 2.5 stars, but I?ll give it an extra half star for being too cool of TV (in other words: violent).

As for other cool movies: Donnie Darko. Very original, entertaining (if a bit weird) movie. It?s a must see.

Anyone else catch the repeat of 'The 'Burbs' late last week? That would have to be one of the few comedy movies that I actually find funny. "Sardine?" "Hey dude, PISS OFF!" "I want to kill everyone, Satan is good, satan is my pal!" Only funny if you've seen it. Ooh, then there was the repeat of Predator, hands down one of the best action flicks of all time. "Any time"

Shit I had no idea there was a sequel to battle royale, I loved the first one, looks like I'll have to keep an eye out for this new one. I didnt think too much of underworld, I thought it was very average.

Everybody should rent Undead, an australian Zombie movie, I saw it in the cinema and just recently rented it out again, its a fun movie with a rather interesting story. Its similar to Braindead but not as over the top.

I've been dying to see city of god, I've heard so many good things about it.

Anybody here seen the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake? I really like the original, I hear from a lot of fans that the remae is pretty weak im comparison.

TheBigJ - Good luck renting Battle Royale. There are only two ways to get it (that I know of). The British release that doesn't exist any more (how I got my special tin version) and the various Cantonese versions. Your best bet is either have a look on ebay or any other asian import DVD sites. I know that it was shown in cinemas over here (well one Hoyts :/), but I haven't heard of any Aus DVD distrubutors picking it up. If you can, I recomend trying to get a hold of a second hand copy of the British version as it has some extra scenes that really help out the story and develop the characters.

Woo. Sounds like a challenge. Now I have to get it.

BTW, about the "Matrix Clone" thing: It's really starting to annoy the f&!k out of me. It seems to apply to anything that has slow-mo, bullet time, black leather, gothic themes, heavy metal music or even the vaguest sci-fi concepts. It applies to films and games alike.

The other day I heard Prince of Persia: Sands of Time refered to as "another matrix rip-off". Naturally, I asked for my xbox controller back.

Interestingly though, I never really considered the Matrix to be particularly original in any sense. Perhaps its just an original combination of many old ideas (Neuromancer, Dark City, Dune etc).

Exactly, the Matrix concept is far from original. The idea that the world as we see it is not real has been done in stories for centuries. As have gothic themes.
I find it annoying that people think that the first mainstream popular success of a certain genre or concept is where that genre began. It's kind of the same how some people seem to think that Peter Jackson invented the fantasy genre...

Quote from a foolish person inspecting my bookshelf shortly after the release of The Fellowship Of The Ring at cinemas: ?Wow, they made that into a book quickly!? -And yes, they were actually serious.

Hey, did anyone see that Aussie movie on TV the other week? I think it was called "On the Beach". About the end of the world after the US fired their nuclear arsenal. Not bad for a low budget movie. I found it rather poignant, with all life on the planet dieing in the end.

on the beach- that was the tv movie with all the ex-blue heelers trying their best to put on american accents wasnt it? i couldnt watch it.

Palantir: Yeah, I wasn't even talking about philosophical content, etc. I was mainly refering to the style. There's nothing even remotely original in the Matrix, philosophically. Ideas like zionism, solipsism and mentalism have been around for centuries: In stories, philosophy and RELIGION!

The LOTR thing annoys me as well. Someone I work with has heard the exact same thing in a bookstore. I was amazed at how many people had never heard of LOTR when the movies came out.

Scarface: an all time favourite, just ahs to be

Delirious: An Eddie Murphy Stand Up comedy you have to watch, if you don't laugh to tears feel free to send me viruses :P.

and avoid a movie called cabin fever. that's all

quote:Delirious: An Eddie Murphy Stand Up comedy you have to watch,

second that... also Eddie Murphy: Raw.

two words: fight club

Underworld was an ok film. I mean it wasnt earth-shattering but it was enjoyable enough. Had some cool moments. The lycons were far better done then the vampires (yeah, humans with pointy teeth about sums it up) and the plot was a romeo and juliet re-hash but that was intended (read a interview with the writers).

Underworld is alright.
Once a upon a time in Mexico is pretty good, its got some good gun fight scenes and a decent plot. Worth the money spent on ticket.
Last Samuria is amazing, simply one of the best movies I have ever seen! :)
Oh and get Pirates of the caribeen on DVD, its just out.

Underworld had too many "power-walk through the mansion while onlookers look at how important you are" scenes. I think there were about 4 or 5 [;)].. All the big movies came last year (Terminator 3, Matrix Reloaded, Lord of the Rings etc), and there's not as much to look forward to this year. I'm looking forward to [url="http://www.sumea.com.au/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1578"]Cashern[/url] though (that live action anime from Japan)

just a note: i bought pirates of the carribean on DVD the other, god i love that film. Its got some nify extras including a video to promote the original pirates of the carribean ride made in 1968, hilarious :P

I saw a trailer for Shaun Of The Dead today, and it looks like it's going to be a pretty funny zombie movie.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365748/

Also looking forward to the new Kevin Smith film, Jersey Girl.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0300051/

Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed ..... just kidding.

not much on at the moment that has my attention.

too bad we dont have another Lord of The Rings to look forward to.

here here to the LOTR comment inglis - someone needs to make another massive epic.... an old jap kung fu movie called Storm Riders was quite a cool movie for martial arts and crazy / silly crouching tiger "AIR" fighting with some pretty shnazzy special effetcs.

REALLY hard to get hold of in video shops nowadays tho...

Last Supper: The story of a group of left wing students and young workers in a share house who feel they are not doing enough to change the world, so they start inviting vocal right wing individuals over for dinner, and attempt to change their view on the world, if they fail they kill them. (Fantastic black comedy that makes you think)

Pantmonger

Hey HazarD, there is another massive epic coming soon - Troy. It may look a bit Hollywood with the star-studded cast line-up, but it's going to be an epic of LOTR proportions. Should be good. (Though of course nothing can touch LOTR!)

The success of the LOTR trilogy has made popular the epic once more, and there are several massive epic productions in the making. Unfortunately (IMO) nothing can come close to something that is based on Tolkien?s books. Looks like we are going to have to wait a few years for the Hobbit (a LOTR prequel of sorts) to be truly satisfied again.

BTW, LOTR fans also have the extended edition of ROTK to look forward to later this year, with something like 45 minutes of extra footage and hours of documentaries.

Flicks that I?m personally really looking forward to this year:
?Spider-Man 2?, ?Van Helsing?, ?The Alamo? (another epic), ?Troy?, and ?I, Robot?. ?I, Robot? is based on the book by brilliant science fiction author Isaac Asimov, though the fact the Will Smith is in it, gives me the impression that it could be disappointing. Though director Alex Proyas has the experience with dark/gothic setting films (such as Dark City and the Crow) that he could do a decent job of it.

Then next year we have (hopefully), two epics a long time in the making: Star Wars III around May, and Alexander the Great around December, though the trouble that production has been having, I wouldn?t be suppressed if we don?t see it until 2006.

Go the epic!!!

quote:massive epic coming soon - Troy. It may look a bit Hollywood

it is more than a 'bit hollywood'. the actual events of troy was a small army with some rafts. not 500,000 guys, thousands of boats etc.
but thats hollywood. has to make everything huge and epic at the moment.

ill see no doubt. ill go in with low expectations.

i just went along to watch '50 First Dates'
not an Adam Sandler fan, but this is better than hes usual work. I cant stand anything where he puts on a fake voice...

anyway- if youre just sitting around doing nothing on a Sunday like today. might as well go watch it.

Isn't Peter Jackson making the Hobit. I'm looking forward to it, the book was great.

he has said he wants to.
at the moment the rights are held by two different groups.
so they have to sort that mess out first.

he has king kong on his plate at the moment- so he said the lawyers can fight over the rights while he works on that.

Oooooooohh King Kong hay, that sounds interesting. What about in terms of CG, what's in the works.
-The incredible: the pixar one, have no idea when it will be released.
-Sharks Tale: Dreamworks is doing it about the shark mafia, it has will smith and they are using softimage.

Anyhthing else full of 3d goodness.

Shrek 2

If it's on-board there may be BIOS settings that allow you to change the amount of system RAM dedicated to the video processor. The settings may be "How much memory to allow for AGP" or something but i'm not sure.
If not, you're just gonna have to upgrade :)
CYer, Blitz

Edit:
If it automatically uses free system memory for video memory, then you could make sure you aren't running any other programs in the background when playing games to free up memory.

MoonUnit, Do you happen to know the name/model of your motherboard? If so, that information can be benificial for us to help you out :)

At least on my laptop (onboard POS graphics card) I have limited control over the amount of system memory I can allocate for it (like Blitz was discribing). Depending on the Make and Model of the Motherboard these setting will vary. At least here in the US, Memory is crazy cheap and if your Motherboard does give you freedom to reallocate the amount that's dedicated to the Graphics Processor, you may be able to pick up a stick of ram for a whole lot cheaper then a new video card.

i plan on upgrading ofcourse, but only when i have the mony to spare (ummm my job sucks?)

I saw this trailer a while ago and its well worth taking a look at. Pretty cool visuals and such. But I'm not too crazy about that mask design :)

-Wes

[url]http://www.weslouie.com[/url]

errr that .mov link dosent really work, its a 60something kb file that just crackles every now and again with no picture. So i went to the apple site link.

its great when these kinda things actually get a budget to make them apear to be a proper rendition of the animie series, i personally havent seen the series but the movie looks promising. Hopefully it releases here dubbed/subtitled.

See if you can get a pic taken with carmack...

Punch carmack in the face and take a photo of that for me. (Probably best if done after getting your photo taken with him)

Haha,
Well, i was planning on kidnapping him and holding him for ransom until doom 3 is released (or forcing him to work on doom 3 instead of his toy rockets at least :P)
CYer, Blitz

Which Carmack? There's two of them you know... =]

Even better: make John Romero your bitch.

is Shigeru Miyamoto gonna be there?

get a picture of him playing his banjo...

Yeah, i'd say just snap a photo of all the industry big wigs, tho this will require research on exactly what they look like so you know who to target... :-)

Booth babes [B)]

hell yeh!

If you want pics of booth babes, go to E3 and take pics :)

Pay me to get there and i will :)
CYer, Blitz

Get some pics of the unrealengine3 in action, and warren spector, I like him.

Hey Blitz - did you stop by the Maxon booth?

quote:
They had a woman in clear 5 inch stiletto like heels with a pastel blue "shirt" and "skirt" of which the skirt barely covered her bottom and I was waiting for her to fall out of the sides of her top. Since they were advertising Bodypainting which is a tool they had her body painted in an animal print all over.

So I was almost handling it until they decided to get the audience involved....their trick you say?

Place rolls of smarties in between her butt and her skirt and then have men walk up to her as she bent over and grab the smarties out of her skirt with their mouths.

*the quote above is from an email list I am on*

I walked past the maxon booth...several times...I never saw/participated in this smarties thing though, sounds like i missed out!
However, i do have a photo of her (as logn as the photos are ok), so i'll put that up later.
*remembers* crap i gotta get the photos developed!
CYer, Blitz

Don't forget to get a photo of Derek Smart.

Bit late goober, conference ended a couple days ago :) (Back in melbourne now)
CYer, Blitz

wowzers, i mean that isnt a kid whos burning CDs or nothing, thats a heck of a lot. I wonder if they had their house raided or anything

"Charged before magistrate Saviour Demicoli, the teenagers pleaded not guilty to the charges brought against them."

Yeah right, that's alot of backups

I doubt they'd be stupid enough to say they're their own personal backups - you have to present packaged originals as proof to dispute that. I think they'd be more inclined to be of the "ummm... I don't know where they came from but they're not ours either" mind.

The 14 yold could probably claim that as he is a minor he has no legal responsibilities regarding the pirated software (not old enough to sign contracts, not old enough to accept end-user-licenses etc.), or just claim he was corrupted by the other guy :P
CYer, Blitz

3,400 !!!

isnt it a $50,000 fine per title??

and i thought i was bad for getting lemonade tycoon of the net.

well.. you are.. but they are 3400x worse :)

I think they'll dispute the intention to sell them, which would be the major allegation towards them.

Stupid stupid stupid

thats funny, i wonder how they got busted.

i heard his pockets seams gave way and they all fell out onto the street....

we should pirate more, then original games will cost $5 like in russia :) mad!

or all game devs will go out of business and there wont be any games to buy at all. then you can keep ALL your money

Indeed.

[:)][:)]

you go right ahead :) you can be the kids cellmate. haha

oh but sir, they all accidently fell into the CD burner. It was an accident....I swear..

sir- there was a virus on my computer that kept prompting me to insert cd after cd. if i didnt it would wipe my hard drive. honestly sir.

Re. Makk's comment: Let that be a lesson to everybody, don't leave your CD burner tray open and unattended!

If they were 3400 different titles they could claim them as their personal collection (a lesser charge I would think.) It would be hard to explain 680 copies of 5 different titles without using the phrase 'personal profit'. I wonder if they were busted selling them at a school fate or something stupid like that?

I honestly can't see the appeal of being the leader in some massive software/movie pirating group. Sure, you probably get your stuff for free and early, but what else is there? Maybe it's just an ego thing.

Oh, just realised they probably made a lot of money selling them.. feel no pitty for them then.

I imagine that it would be a money thing. They could potentially make more doing that than they could with regular jobs at their age.

I doubt that they would have much idea of what intellectual property is at their age either, so they wouldn't really understand what is wrong with what they are doing.

I wonder if they purchaced the discs that they burnt everything to? ie 'we shouldn't steal the discs because that is wrong.'

the 18 year old should have known quite well what he was doing.

Souri - What else is there? How about a nice anal streching when you are caught and chucked in jail :D

JohnN: i am 16 and i know how bad it is to steal some one elses hard work and sell it for your own profit. So i am quite sure that the 18 year old knew but the 14 year old probably had no clue. That's the worst part, the 18 y.o took the 14 y.o for a ride as well.

I think it would be fairly naive to say that the 14 year old had no idea what he/she was doing was wrong, okay - maybe not a *full* understanding but they would be fairly aware of piracy and it's implications. I'm fairly sure at the age of 14 most people had a fair understanding of the world, and probably got p***ed off when people told/assumed that they didn't :P

never seen 'anal streching' and 'nice' used in the same sentence before! More likely to get a suspended sentence and a hefty fine wouldn't they?

not if i was the judge.

thats probably why your not the judge ;)

yeah. lucky for him. ;)

I wonder if everyone played by the rules and we lived in a world without piracy - how much cheaper would games/movies/music be? If companies didn't have to spend any money on anti-piracy, and they didn't loose any sales to piracy, the average price for their product would have to come down. -Then I could afford to buy more games!

Games would probably be more expensive since there would be no "alternative" method for getting the games, so they can jack up the price.
If you don't believe me, countries where piracy is rampant (such as china) sell games for 70-80% less because they are competing with the pirates for market share!
(In fact, piracy may be the reason that game prices have stayed reasonably static the last 5-10 years or so instead of rising with inflation).
CYer, Blitz

hooray for gratuitous panty-shots.

Seriously though, I never personally enjoyed playing the one previous to it (oh god no not beach volleyball! The previous doa fighter) - it had a fuzzy mix of other beat-em-up systems and struggled with game balance which deteriated into "mastering" it once you could recognise every move. With the hook of softcore porn and pretty graphics, it never really did anything for me.

Woohoo! I'm looking forward to that one.

I own DOA3 for XBox, and really enjoyed it, although it hasn't gotten much play since SoulCalibur II came out.

E for idiot...hahaha good one!! :D

how do you get on wheel of fortune??

Well, first you have to wrestle your way past security...
ba dum, ching!

Sorry. :)

well, he didn't say much about the process, other than that he had to goto an audition.. I dunno, he musta thought it was for australian idol or something..

Next thing he knows, he gets a call asking him to goto a second audition.. He does that, and the day after he's on wheel of fortune. But before all that, I couldn't tell you.

He told me, that if I yell out 'dylan is, a homosexual!!', he'll give me one of the prizes (dylan is one of our mates)

well it's all how much being man-handled by security is worth for you matt [;)]

if he wins the car, i'll do it :)

Isn't that one of the prizes Joel? :D

I dare u to yell out "YOU SUCK NEW GUY!! BRING BACK ROB!!" :)

Much as I dislike the "sedatives for the masses" that is the wheel of fortune (or is that weal? well nm), and other prime time crap, I have unfortunately suffered through a couple of shows. Anyway, I promised myself that if I ever had the cosmic misfortune of being kidnapped and forced to appear on the show, I'd take a handy letters-in-english-text distribution table along ;) Such as the one at:

http://www.csm.astate.edu/~rossa/datasec/frequency.html

When there's no other context to go on, go by the table :)

Reminds me of a good poster I saw - "Free your mind - smash your TV" ;)

blaahh

I went to the atm today, I have a whomping $35 in my account. Not enough to get to sydney, also, we'll be doing colour theory in art class.

In other words, I'm not able to go :(

awww boo, try and get one of your mates to sneek a handy cam in or something :P

:/

Who needs a handy cam when it will be aired in a few weeks

theyll cut out things like people shouting out random things wont they :P

Actually I've noticed that a lot of the time they don't seem to cut out things like that. I was watching The Price is Right one time over christmas and when a contestant missed out on the grand prize she goes "Oh, Shit!" and then covered her mouth and said "Oops".

I reckon if you yelled out something random, the host would probably make a joke out of it and they would leave it in, so long as its not too inappropriate. Maybe you should put this to the test. [;)]

still not going :/ so I won't be able to test it. One of our mates that is going is a sailor.. So theres a higher than likely chance the editing stick will have to come out.