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Specifics included complaints about the polygon count being so low that you could see visible spikes on the heads, shoulders, etc. of characters and such.

Don't know where that came from, but this screenshot looks good to me.

http://www.actiontrip.com/files/movies/ps2/bully.p html

aye, RIP PC Accelerator

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i cant even find much on google mentioning them anymore. its too bad.

You paying customers are getting screwed by the companies themselves. Even before it was as "rampant" as it is claimed to be today, they were building in copy-protection techniques, which made it harder for the paying customer to use their media their way. This is even truer now, with cds like "Break the Cycle" (classic example cd) unable to work on many players.

I highly reccomend a read of The hard-to-find truth about piracy, which includes excellent parts such as:

The leisure corporations are conducting, in fact, a war not against pirates, but on their own customers. For many years now, honest consumers paying full price for legitimate products have been saddled with crippled, inferior versions of what the pirate users get for free:

- Pirate users don't have to keep their precious PC game discs spinning endlessly and noisily in the drive (and being subjected to repeated handling) while they play the game.

- Pirate users don't have to sit through all those infuriatingly long, unskippable splash screens / trailers / adverts before they can watch the actual movie on their new DVD, while the poor saps who paid for it in a shop do.

- Pirate users don't get their brand-new music CD home only to find that it won't play in their computer because it's been made in a non-standard-compliant "anti-piracy" format which prevents legitimate users from legally listening to music they've paid for.

- Pirate users can use their game consoles to play games originating from any country, while legitimate purchasers of, say, a game from Japan will be unable to play it on their legitimate, but UK-bought, Playstation 2.

- Pirate users don't have to uninstall perfectly legal software applications from their PCs, or put up with the secret installation of damaging programs if they want to play their new games, unlike the unfortunate legitimate consumers.

And so on. But astoundingly, the entertainment business still doesn't think it's made life miserable enough for its honest, paying customers.

Found that nice link in NTK for Sept. 9, 2003. I'd say that as a customer, you're getting screwed over. I'm not saying don't buy what you want, please do, but I'm saying it should also be ok for you to download a "Pirated" version so that you get to use the media your way instead of theirs. No-CD Cracks should be fine, but companies are now making your $50 product useless for using them. Sad, I think.

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Do you want to see something really horrendeous? Then head over to Gamespy and download The Cliff Show video starring EPIC's level designer/pimp wannabe CliffyB. In their infinite wisdom the Gamespy journalists thought it might be cool to make a video where they're 'just chillin' homey' with CliffyB in a pool at some Atari press event that was held in Mexico of all places.

Hey, G-spy (and CliffyB) here's a goddamn clue! Seeing you fucking geeks going MTV on us while you spend other people's money and act all cool; while the rest of us poor bastards sit behind our desks; doesn't strike me as cool. In fact it makes me wish that instead of that nice pool, someone threw your asses in quicksand. That would've been the shortest and the most enjoyable interview ever:

G-spy journalist (standing in quicksand): So Cliffy... now that we're just chilling here...
CliffyB (standing in quicksand with him): Hurry up dawg!
G-spy journalist: Yeah so... Cliffy! Is he telling me to talk to the hand?
G-spy cameraman: I think he drowned in the quicksand! I don't think his hand is supposed to just twitch like that while the rest of his body is submerged.
G-spy journalist: Oh hel....... *goes under*
G-spy cameraman: That's right, wave to the audience, guys! Cutting edge journalism!
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From http://www.actiontrip.com/.

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