Actually there's plenty of filters out there for windows folks that'll overlay subtitles from a file with the same name as the video. (In a format like.sub.srt.ssa and others) Even my standalone DVD player supports external subtitle files for avi file playback.
Most 'codec packs' for things like xvid and divx should include a subtitle filter. iirc, there's ffmpeg (I think that's the name anyway), it handles subs, multiple audio tracks, juggling which version of divx/xvid decodes what specific version files, as well as allowing you to tweak all sorts of xvid/divx settings.
Yes, it's the same with television ads... I've gone through half a dozen remotes because I wore the contacts for the mute button clean off the PCB. Ads should NOT instill in me a burning desire to declare humanity a failed experiment and wipe out all life on this planet, NOR should they be at an appreciably higher volume than what I'm watching. Japanese TV has some seriously messed up ads...but atleast they're more tolerable than the crap we put on US television.
I don't like ads, but I have some on my website, why? (Actually, it's a single banner, nothing too offensive) Because I only advertise services and products I find useful myself. Like Newegg, thinkgeek, play-asia, amazon, giganews (my usenet provider), and my webhost, Dreamhost. These actually save me effort because people are always asking me about where I got x, or what usenet provider I use, blah blah. I don't expect to make more than chump-change off them, but atleast it feels honest.
I don't have the time to say anything too rant-ish or wordy (An uncommon occurance for me) so I'll just say this: Japanese currency is cool. And I read a similar story about $2 bills here: http://www.digiserve.com/eescape/closet/silly/2-at -Taco-Bell.html
True or not, it's still funny.
As an aside, I spent some $2 bills when I was a kid, and no one thought anything of it. (I'm 24 now.) They really need to teach this generation of cashiers...SOMETHING. The people training them can't just ASSUME they know wtf a $2 bill is, or what any of those silver dollars and half dollars out there are. Anyway, busy busy. I'm off.
...is someone figure out how to replicate Namco Museum's multiplayer functionality, and use it to run apps designed for the PSP over your wifi.
Namco Museum, which has such classics as Pac Man on it, can be played multiplayer, with just one UMD, because it beams the software over to another unit via the wifi connection. Like the GBA games that you can play multiplayer with just one cartridge. (And infact, in the GBA's case, people did reverse engineer that functionality to load games and software into memory over the link cable.) It'd be cool to see neat utility software being loaded into the PSP, like advanced media players and stuff.
As it is, I'm in the process of assessing just how little food I need to survive, in an effort to save for a PSP:P Armored Core Formula Front is crack...:o Need...play...online... *runs off to play the PS2 version*
My livingroom is the best theater in the area (And there's an ACTUAL theater next door)...my usenet feed is so damned fast it's like a direct connection to some internet deity...the recent upgrade to my line makes me a bittorrent god... And yet...
Free isn't good enough...I still wouldn't see this damned movie if someone PAID ME. Enough is enough. It's one thing to make these crappy prequels, because really, he was going to one way or another, and there was no helping the fact that they'd suck. JarJar...so what? I can ignore JarJar. I ignore imbeciles all day, it's become reflex. There's ONE THING, and ONE THING ONLY that killed Star Wars for me. George, you're a damned idiot...and HAN SHOT FIRST.
Okay, that's my overt display of geek bravado for the month, back to pretending I have a life. Let my savage e-stoning begin!
And people always call me crazy when I say Japan is going to build an army of bipedal war machines and take over the world! FOOLS! NOW YOU SEE! NOW YOU SEE!!
Sure, this one is little more than a toy, but video of this thing is just to get us to let our guard down. We see it and, not only does it not look that threatening, the concept itself seems ridiculous... Like the federation's reaction to the first leaked photos of the prototype Zaku... But you can bet there's other, more serious mecha being built as we speak. Pilots? Are you kidding? They've been training pilots for years. How else would you explain the existence of a mech game with a 3-foot-wide controller with 2 sticks, 3 foot pedals, a 7-speed shifter, 44 buttons, 5 toggle switches, and a rotary dial? Sound suspiciously like a cockpit simulator to anyone else?
I for one will welcome our new overlords...atleast with the Japanese ruling the world, there'll be something good on American TV for once.
Not only is this not the first time an American cable network has had a hand in producing an anime, it's not even the first time Cartoon Network has... They were the driving force behind the production of the second season of 'Big O' (An homage to all the old super robot shows...with an unfortunate name.), several years after the original was produced.
Personally, I can't see this being good, I'll reserve judgement of course, but still... We Americans tend to destroy even the best of series with general carelessness when it comes to execution.
Without resorting to non-opposable digits, I can count the English dubs that don't make me reach for the nearest sharp object with which I can kill myself. And I can't even begin count the number that are so bad that I'll settle for a blunt object to just beat myself unconscious.
We have more movie and television media than any other country on the planet...why can't we find voice actors who can, you know, act? Of course, the simple answer is, we can, even I know they're out there... But the licensees don't feel like paying for a decent dub...and so, that's all we get exposed to. Just once, I'd like a mainstream channel to air anime with SUBTITLES. (Even International Channel changed most of their anime programming to dubs...so what exactly is the point of the channel now?) But then, I don't really care. I don't have cable or broadcast or anything... I just download raws of the latest series from Japan and wait patiently for the DVDs. ^_^
As usual, just my 2 yen. I hate everything, deal with it.:)
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When the hell are people going to figure out that games do not dictate the behavior of the people playing them except in extraordinary circumstances (i.e. The player is ALREADY CRAZY)?
If Grand Theft Auto teaches you how to behave towards people, you don't belong in society to begin with. You have problems that aren't going to be fixed by merely not playing video games.
Our [The U.S.] culture is simply too goddamned repressed. Look at Japan. Granted, they don't have any guns, but you can also see pretty much ANYTHING on TV. And the print media? Christ... You ever seen some of the manga that a kid in Japan is likely to come in contact with over the course of the day?
And guess what? It's an island nation the size of California, with half the population of the U.S. (A population that is FAR from evenly distributed.) If that was America... We would've all gone batshit and destroyed the entire species by now.
It's not the games. It's not television. It's an entire culture of emotionally retarded and repressed (regardless of age) children. The sooner we figure that out, the sooner we can do something about it. Though I doubt that'll ever happen, because these dolts would much rather let the country self destruct so they can go after the SYMPTOMS and ignore the underlying cause.
I'm American. I'm white. I've come to terms with the fact that my culture is pathetically repressed, and make due. I pretty much do nothing but play video games and watch anime. And I have yet to kill people for the hell of it. (Or even for totally legitimate reasons, for that matter.)
This is just my 2 yen, and I'm still pretty groggy from getting up. But tell me I'm wrong. Now, I have to go review the latest omfgwtfbbq murdergame. GOOD DAY TO YOU!
I for one will welcome my new penguin overlords when Lightwave is ported to linux. Then maybe we'll see 'First independent American-made anime, created entirely under linux.' on the front page here;P
Now all you need are some racing stripes to go with that Type-R sticker, and your 3 year old prepaid cellphone will have all the features of a T-mobile sidekick! Excellent!
Wow, for once the 'slashdot effect' has been used to good ends!:P (As opposed to when it's used to reduce webservers to smoking slag...) I've never seen such well-seeded torrents. ^_^ (nor have I ever seen such speeds on BT...)
For a week at the end of January/beginning of February I got an automated phonecall from Vonage nearly once a day. Pissed me off to no end. I pick up the phone, and get an automated voice saying "Press 1 to be connected to an operator to talk about 'Vonage, the broadband phone company'." or something like that... Pissed me off to no end. I finally sent a scathing email to their customer service department, and the calls stopped. (I hate answering the phone enough as it is...but getting SPAMMED with it is too much.)
As an animator, I'm stunned by the possibilites of something like this. But it also segues nicely into the conversation I was just having about a particular Japanese PC game developer, and their graphics engines.
For the last five or so years, Illusion has been making, what I can only describe as 'interactive anime porn'. (Save it, I never said I play them.) Any of you who watch TechTV have probably heard of one of their titles from 2003, 'Sexy Beach 2' (Featured on Xplay, much to everyone's respective amusement/chagrin)
Their graphics engines, while not spectacular in all aspects (Though they are improving), have offered near-cg quality characters... Impressive considering that their target platform is ~1.2ghz machines with a modest gfx card.
The conversation I was having was along the lines of 'Imagine if these guys developed an engine for 3+ ghz machines!'...well, hardware like this certainly ups the ante on that...not to mention computer animation in general.
Broadband to kill DVDs? No no... Broadband spawns DVDs. Broadband + Usenet + DVD burner = Wachow! Here comes the MPAA gestapo with their shocksticks at the ready!
Seriously though folks, Piracy Bad(TM)! But if they want to come after me for downloading movies in 1080i HDTV (If you've never done it, you have no idea...*drool*) that I own on DVD, or DVDs of movies I own on VHS... They're welcome to.
I really should stop trying to encite them though... My livingroom (Read: Ample seating and a DLP projector) has 'unauthorized exhibition' written all over it as it is.:P
Okay, this isn't entirely on topic, because the article is talking about technicolor prints...though it fits the broader topic of film to DVD transfers. So dammit, I'm gonna rant anyway!
I recently purchased a nice DLP projector (A BenQ PB8220), my first foray into things larger than my old 27" Samsung, it's a beautiful thing...but unfortunately, not all the DVDs in my collection live up to such a standard.
For instance, one of my all-time favorite movies, Grosse Pointe Blank, isn't anamorphic! Now, 10-feet-wide on your livingroom wall, even a decent transfer will show its flaws...but when you're already wasting a bunch of lines of video resolution on black bars...well, you get the idea. (It's also annoying having to change my ratio settings on the DVD player and the projector every time, to keep it from being centered in the middle of the 16:9 band as a 4:3 image)
And are the studios ever going to do a proper transfer of movies like that to anamorphic DVDs? Probably not. (What's even worse, is that it seems to actually be cropped down from full-screen!)
What recourse do fans of movies that just happen to not be the latest blockbuster, or popular enough for remastering every 5-or-so years, have?
Okay, have at me with the modding down, I finally got that rant out of my system.
So basically, you're burning a monochrome image into the face of the CD with a laser? (btw, there was a/. story about the predecessor to this technology on here a year or two back)
As someone else pointed out, you can get an Epson Rx00 printer that'll print on a CD/DVD in full color. The R200 is like $100, $70 refurb'd. The DVD media I buy, Ritek G05 8x DVD-R discs, already have printable matte silver faces. (Not bad for $0.40 a disc, and falling weekly...$0.33 each for 4x media)
As totally novel an idea as this is... No...not so much. Though, I'll admit that if you're just burning a name and catalog number onto the disc (Or even a barcode or something), it'd be awesome. But if you're just putting that kind of info on the disc (with the exception of the barcode) you can get along just as easily with a sharpie. I don't know off the top of my head what a sharpie costs...but you get the idea.;)
I honestly wonder what percentage of people out there would actually be naive enough to go 'ohnoes! I may have illegal files!:o!' and download this at all, let alone care what it tells them. Can we make a list of them? _
MGM isn't the only company doing this... My copy of Grosse Pointe Blank, one of my absolute favorite movies ever, is a widescreen-cropped 4:3. So were the entire Back to The Future series...but I hear they might have fixed that... Now, I don't know how..since I was of the understanding that it was SHOT in 4:3... But that's for another day.
Yeah, I love this game. Even my father can be found playing this from time to time, and going up against him in 'Road Rage' is so much fun it should be illegal. We have a pair of Logitech GT-Force racing wheels that we got off ebay for cheap, I decided to plug them in on a 'what if', and it turned out Burnout 3 loves them almost as much as I love Burnout 3:)
Recently, I was talking to some friends about how awesome it would be to play Burnout 3 on the DLP Projector/'10-foot wallscreen of Doom' I'm putting together, one of them hadn't heard of the game, and after showing him a crash mode video I'd recorded (You can find it on my site), he immediately ran out and bought it...which no one knew until he popped onto IRC a day later and said he hadn't done anything but play Burnout 3 since then... (I should note that if you want to buy video games and stuff around here, you're pretty much committing yourself to a 20-30 mile drive)
My father gets no end of enjoyment from forcing me infront of oncoming semis and buses... It's just not right. *shakes head*
Oh yeah, and the soundtrack is awesome. Nothing beats causing freeway mayhem to 'I wanna be sedated'.
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Between WMV and Quicktime...I choose DEATH!
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That's lame... If they had it as an AVI, I'd be able to play it on the 'Giant Wall Screen of Doom' straight from my DVD player
Now I gotta string a VGA cable across the room to the DLP projector.
Actually there's plenty of filters out there for windows folks that'll overlay subtitles from a file with the same name as the video. (In a format like .sub .srt .ssa and others) Even my standalone DVD player supports external subtitle files for avi file playback.
Most 'codec packs' for things like xvid and divx should include a subtitle filter. iirc, there's ffmpeg (I think that's the name anyway), it handles subs, multiple audio tracks, juggling which version of divx/xvid decodes what specific version files, as well as allowing you to tweak all sorts of xvid/divx settings.
Yes, it's the same with television ads... I've gone through half a dozen remotes because I wore the contacts for the mute button clean off the PCB. Ads should NOT instill in me a burning desire to declare humanity a failed experiment and wipe out all life on this planet, NOR should they be at an appreciably higher volume than what I'm watching. Japanese TV has some seriously messed up ads...but atleast they're more tolerable than the crap we put on US television.
I don't like ads, but I have some on my website, why? (Actually, it's a single banner, nothing too offensive) Because I only advertise services and products I find useful myself. Like Newegg, thinkgeek, play-asia, amazon, giganews (my usenet provider), and my webhost, Dreamhost. These actually save me effort because people are always asking me about where I got x, or what usenet provider I use, blah blah. I don't expect to make more than chump-change off them, but atleast it feels honest.
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All the 1080i and 720p videos you could want. And likely to be the first place those are posted after they air. Enjoy.
I don't have the time to say anything too rant-ish or wordy (An uncommon occurance for me) so I'll just say this: Japanese currency is cool. And I read a similar story about $2 bills here: http://www.digiserve.com/eescape/closet/silly/2-at -Taco-Bell.html
True or not, it's still funny.
As an aside, I spent some $2 bills when I was a kid, and no one thought anything of it. (I'm 24 now.) They really need to teach this generation of cashiers...SOMETHING. The people training them can't just ASSUME they know wtf a $2 bill is, or what any of those silver dollars and half dollars out there are. Anyway, busy busy. I'm off.
...is someone figure out how to replicate Namco Museum's multiplayer functionality, and use it to run apps designed for the PSP over your wifi.
:P Armored Core Formula Front is crack... :o Need...play...online... *runs off to play the PS2 version*
Namco Museum, which has such classics as Pac Man on it, can be played multiplayer, with just one UMD, because it beams the software over to another unit via the wifi connection. Like the GBA games that you can play multiplayer with just one cartridge. (And infact, in the GBA's case, people did reverse engineer that functionality to load games and software into memory over the link cable.) It'd be cool to see neat utility software being loaded into the PSP, like advanced media players and stuff.
As it is, I'm in the process of assessing just how little food I need to survive, in an effort to save for a PSP
My livingroom is the best theater in the area (And there's an ACTUAL theater next door)...my usenet feed is so damned fast it's like a direct connection to some internet deity...the recent upgrade to my line makes me a bittorrent god... And yet...
Free isn't good enough...I still wouldn't see this damned movie if someone PAID ME. Enough is enough. It's one thing to make these crappy prequels, because really, he was going to one way or another, and there was no helping the fact that they'd suck. JarJar...so what? I can ignore JarJar. I ignore imbeciles all day, it's become reflex. There's ONE THING, and ONE THING ONLY that killed Star Wars for me. George, you're a damned idiot...and HAN SHOT FIRST.
Okay, that's my overt display of geek bravado for the month, back to pretending I have a life. Let my savage e-stoning begin!
And people always call me crazy when I say Japan is going to build an army of bipedal war machines and take over the world! FOOLS! NOW YOU SEE! NOW YOU SEE!!
Sure, this one is little more than a toy, but video of this thing is just to get us to let our guard down. We see it and, not only does it not look that threatening, the concept itself seems ridiculous... Like the federation's reaction to the first leaked photos of the prototype Zaku... But you can bet there's other, more serious mecha being built as we speak. Pilots? Are you kidding? They've been training pilots for years. How else would you explain the existence of a mech game with a 3-foot-wide controller with 2 sticks, 3 foot pedals, a 7-speed shifter, 44 buttons, 5 toggle switches, and a rotary dial? Sound suspiciously like a cockpit simulator to anyone else?
I for one will welcome our new overlords...atleast with the Japanese ruling the world, there'll be something good on American TV for once.
SIEG ZEON!
Not only is this not the first time an American cable network has had a hand in producing an anime, it's not even the first time Cartoon Network has... They were the driving force behind the production of the second season of 'Big O' (An homage to all the old super robot shows...with an unfortunate name.), several years after the original was produced.
:)
Personally, I can't see this being good, I'll reserve judgement of course, but still... We Americans tend to destroy even the best of series with general carelessness when it comes to execution.
Without resorting to non-opposable digits, I can count the English dubs that don't make me reach for the nearest sharp object with which I can kill myself. And I can't even begin count the number that are so bad that I'll settle for a blunt object to just beat myself unconscious.
We have more movie and television media than any other country on the planet...why can't we find voice actors who can, you know, act? Of course, the simple answer is, we can, even I know they're out there... But the licensees don't feel like paying for a decent dub...and so, that's all we get exposed to. Just once, I'd like a mainstream channel to air anime with SUBTITLES. (Even International Channel changed most of their anime programming to dubs...so what exactly is the point of the channel now?) But then, I don't really care. I don't have cable or broadcast or anything... I just download raws of the latest series from Japan and wait patiently for the DVDs. ^_^
As usual, just my 2 yen. I hate everything, deal with it.
When the hell are people going to figure out that games do not dictate the behavior of the people playing them except in extraordinary circumstances (i.e. The player is ALREADY CRAZY)?
If Grand Theft Auto teaches you how to behave towards people, you don't belong in society to begin with. You have problems that aren't going to be fixed by merely not playing video games.
Our [The U.S.] culture is simply too goddamned repressed. Look at Japan. Granted, they don't have any guns, but you can also see pretty much ANYTHING on TV. And the print media? Christ... You ever seen some of the manga that a kid in Japan is likely to come in contact with over the course of the day?
And guess what? It's an island nation the size of California, with half the population of the U.S. (A population that is FAR from evenly distributed.) If that was America... We would've all gone batshit and destroyed the entire species by now.
It's not the games. It's not television. It's an entire culture of emotionally retarded and repressed (regardless of age) children. The sooner we figure that out, the sooner we can do something about it. Though I doubt that'll ever happen, because these dolts would much rather let the country self destruct so they can go after the SYMPTOMS and ignore the underlying cause.
I'm American. I'm white. I've come to terms with the fact that my culture is pathetically repressed, and make due. I pretty much do nothing but play video games and watch anime. And I have yet to kill people for the hell of it. (Or even for totally legitimate reasons, for that matter.)
This is just my 2 yen, and I'm still pretty groggy from getting up. But tell me I'm wrong. Now, I have to go review the latest omfgwtfbbq murdergame. GOOD DAY TO YOU!
I for one will welcome my new penguin overlords when Lightwave is ported to linux. Then maybe we'll see 'First independent American-made anime, created entirely under linux.' on the front page here ;P
Now all you need are some racing stripes to go with that Type-R sticker, and your 3 year old prepaid cellphone will have all the features of a T-mobile sidekick! Excellent!
Wow, for once the 'slashdot effect' has been used to good ends! :P (As opposed to when it's used to reduce webservers to smoking slag...) I've never seen such well-seeded torrents. ^_^ (nor have I ever seen such speeds on BT...)
For a week at the end of January/beginning of February I got an automated phonecall from Vonage nearly once a day. Pissed me off to no end. I pick up the phone, and get an automated voice saying "Press 1 to be connected to an operator to talk about 'Vonage, the broadband phone company'." or something like that... Pissed me off to no end. I finally sent a scathing email to their customer service department, and the calls stopped. (I hate answering the phone enough as it is...but getting SPAMMED with it is too much.)
As an animator, I'm stunned by the possibilites of something like this. But it also segues nicely into the conversation I was just having about a particular Japanese PC game developer, and their graphics engines.
For the last five or so years, Illusion has been making, what I can only describe as 'interactive anime porn'. (Save it, I never said I play them.) Any of you who watch TechTV have probably heard of one of their titles from 2003, 'Sexy Beach 2' (Featured on Xplay, much to everyone's respective amusement/chagrin)
Their graphics engines, while not spectacular in all aspects (Though they are improving), have offered near-cg quality characters... Impressive considering that their target platform is ~1.2ghz machines with a modest gfx card.
The conversation I was having was along the lines of 'Imagine if these guys developed an engine for 3+ ghz machines!'...well, hardware like this certainly ups the ante on that...not to mention computer animation in general.
Broadband to kill DVDs? No no... Broadband spawns DVDs. Broadband + Usenet + DVD burner = Wachow! Here comes the MPAA gestapo with their shocksticks at the ready!
:P
Seriously though folks, Piracy Bad(TM)! But if they want to come after me for downloading movies in 1080i HDTV (If you've never done it, you have no idea...*drool*) that I own on DVD, or DVDs of movies I own on VHS... They're welcome to.
I really should stop trying to encite them though... My livingroom (Read: Ample seating and a DLP projector) has 'unauthorized exhibition' written all over it as it is.
Good thing I don't live in Australia... 'Kill yourself.' is practically a catchphrase of mine... (What can I say? I'm surrounded by morons.) ^^;
Figures, the one movie no one posts to usenet in PAL ;P Guess I'll have to buy a SECOND copy. Oh well, it's worth it. ^^ Thanks for the info.
Okay, this isn't entirely on topic, because the article is talking about technicolor prints...though it fits the broader topic of film to DVD transfers. So dammit, I'm gonna rant anyway!
I recently purchased a nice DLP projector (A BenQ PB8220), my first foray into things larger than my old 27" Samsung, it's a beautiful thing...but unfortunately, not all the DVDs in my collection live up to such a standard.
For instance, one of my all-time favorite movies, Grosse Pointe Blank, isn't anamorphic! Now, 10-feet-wide on your livingroom wall, even a decent transfer will show its flaws...but when you're already wasting a bunch of lines of video resolution on black bars...well, you get the idea. (It's also annoying having to change my ratio settings on the DVD player and the projector every time, to keep it from being centered in the middle of the 16:9 band as a 4:3 image)
And are the studios ever going to do a proper transfer of movies like that to anamorphic DVDs? Probably not. (What's even worse, is that it seems to actually be cropped down from full-screen!)
What recourse do fans of movies that just happen to not be the latest blockbuster, or popular enough for remastering every 5-or-so years, have?
Okay, have at me with the modding down, I finally got that rant out of my system.
...though the failing may not be in ME.
/. story about the predecessor to this technology on here a year or two back)
;)
So basically, you're burning a monochrome image into the face of the CD with a laser? (btw, there was a
As someone else pointed out, you can get an Epson Rx00 printer that'll print on a CD/DVD in full color. The R200 is like $100, $70 refurb'd. The DVD media I buy, Ritek G05 8x DVD-R discs, already have printable matte silver faces. (Not bad for $0.40 a disc, and falling weekly...$0.33 each for 4x media)
As totally novel an idea as this is... No...not so much. Though, I'll admit that if you're just burning a name and catalog number onto the disc (Or even a barcode or something), it'd be awesome. But if you're just putting that kind of info on the disc (with the exception of the barcode) you can get along just as easily with a sharpie. I don't know off the top of my head what a sharpie costs...but you get the idea.
Anyway, that's just my 2 yen.
I honestly wonder what percentage of people out there would actually be naive enough to go 'ohnoes! I may have illegal files! :o!' and download this at all, let alone care what it tells them. Can we make a list of them? _
MGM isn't the only company doing this... My copy of Grosse Pointe Blank, one of my absolute favorite movies ever, is a widescreen-cropped 4:3. So were the entire Back to The Future series...but I hear they might have fixed that... Now, I don't know how..since I was of the understanding that it was SHOT in 4:3... But that's for another day.
...soon I won't have to remove it forcibly from every &@#$ing windows install I do?
Yeah, I love this game. Even my father can be found playing this from time to time, and going up against him in 'Road Rage' is so much fun it should be illegal. We have a pair of Logitech GT-Force racing wheels that we got off ebay for cheap, I decided to plug them in on a 'what if', and it turned out Burnout 3 loves them almost as much as I love Burnout 3 :)
Recently, I was talking to some friends about how awesome it would be to play Burnout 3 on the DLP Projector/'10-foot wallscreen of Doom' I'm putting together, one of them hadn't heard of the game, and after showing him a crash mode video I'd recorded (You can find it on my site), he immediately ran out and bought it...which no one knew until he popped onto IRC a day later and said he hadn't done anything but play Burnout 3 since then... (I should note that if you want to buy video games and stuff around here, you're pretty much committing yourself to a 20-30 mile drive)
My father gets no end of enjoyment from forcing me infront of oncoming semis and buses... It's just not right. *shakes head*
Oh yeah, and the soundtrack is awesome. Nothing beats causing freeway mayhem to 'I wanna be sedated'.
I wonder which this guy feels dumber about, getting arrested for using bittorrent, or getting arrested for distributing crap.
:P
And, I take it that figure is in USD, correct? 'cause I could probably find that much in HKD in my COUCH.