I run a fairly popular Sims website (and if you think I'm going to link it here and have the poor server brought to its knees, you're nuts!) and while there are no mods in the Team Fortress/Day of Defeat/Quake Rally style, there are people all over making new skins, new body meshes, and new "onjects" for the game. I know many players of The Sims who have discovered modding the game just as their interest for the game propper has begun to wane. And suddenly they find a whole new world of possibilities for the game. Hell, I don't even play The Sims any more. All I do with it is make new stuff and figure out how things work.
Trust me, any game that lets you plug your ownb stuff in has a thriving mod community, unless the publisher has a sick up his/her ass about it.
Loki was not killed by a market not willing to buy their goods, though that did have some small contribution. It was killed by the absolute criminal incompitence of it's president.
I feel sorry for the people who Loki owes money to. I feel no pity at all for Loki.
I really hope this is a joke. I respect Will Wheaton, but I loathe Wesley Crusher more than any other TV character that has ever existed (Cpat. Janeway comes in a close 2nd).
And to all of you whiners bitching about the AFD jokes: Get the hell over it! Relax and enjoy the laughs, you humorless luddites!
Rather than a shapeless mass, he should have put the parts in a box lined with wax paper. Wax paper does not adhear (much) to spray foam. It would then look more like a giant rice krispy treat.
I remember the Great Green Card Lottery Day. No one had ever seen anything like it and EVERYONE was hopping-ass mad about it. Everyone. These clowns lost their accounts on their ISP and were soundly chased off the Net.
To those who claim that these guys are not responcible for the deluge of SMAP that chokes our email and has turned Usenet into a mire of watsed bandwidth, I say : "Pull your heads out of your butts and face reality."
You must be young. There was a time before the ratings system came out. All movies were made to the same basic standards then. No gratuitous violence, no nudity, the most cautiously hinted at sex, etc... It is the ratings system that allowed movie makers to create movies aimed at adults without having to water them down for children.
Go take a lok at movies made before the late 1960s. Look at how ALL of those movies were watered down and sanitized.
There was a HUGE push to try to get casset recorders banned. They also tried it with VCRs. They didn't quite get DATs banned, but they crippled the market outside of the computer backup tape arena.
Every new technology that allows you to record content (be it original or not) has been attacked by the various entertainemnt groups. This time, however, our polititions are openly whoring themselves out.
Nothing is free. Someone pays for it. Whether it's the user, the ad company, the site owner or the taxpayer, someone pays for the sites you visit.
I run a website that costs me $400.00 a month to have hosted due to bandwidth consumption. I get about $60.00 a month in voluntary donations from visitors, but otherwise it all comes out of my pocket.
I mean, does it? "Attack of The Clownz" is going to be a gold-electroplated turd. We all know that. Does it matter if it was buffed twice or thrice when we know that just under its shiney surface is feculent shit?
I want a Tivo-like unit that can either save a program to VCD or let me transport the file to a PC where I can do it.
Part of what I use my VCR for is archival storage of programs that I will want to watch again and know will not be on TV for very much longer (like Reboot).
I haven't seen MI yet, but I am glad to hear that there are mo outtakes in the closing credits.
Now that I've said that, I'll tell you why:
The outtakes from "A Bugs Life" were fantastic. They were funny. They felt spontanious, like "stuff happens". They also never violated the idea that "A Bugs Life" was a movie about insects, to the point that when Molt knocks the camera over we see that the stage hands are also insects. And most of all, they were unprecedented. Almost no animated movie has ever had "outtakes" in it - animation is just too expensive to have these toss-away jokes.
The outtakes in "Toy Story 2" (on the DVD, but not the theatrical run) felt forced. They lacked the spontinaity of the Bugs Life outtakes. They felt like it was assumed that they would be there, like there was no choice. Some of them were funny, but the magic that happened in thge "A Bugs Life" outtakes was just not there.
The "outtakes" on the "Final Fantasy" DVD were just plain dumb. Only "The Sneeze" was funny, and not by much. These "outtakes" felt like they had been done by people who really didn't understand what an outtake really was, but wanted to do them anyway. As jokes for the animators to blow off steam they were okay, but they didn't belong on the DVD.
I don't want every animated film I see to have outtakes. I don't want filmakers to feel compelled to do them. They are funny the first time someone does them, but like all gags, get old real fast.
I would like to say, that wjile I loathed Wesley Crusher more than any other fictional being, to the point of actually writing fan-fic of his death, I have vener held any resentment or ill will towards Wil Wheaton in any way. As a long-time posters to the two die.die.die newsgroups I always made it a point to differentiate between the actor and his role.
It is with some wry irony that Wil and I actually like amny of the same things, and have similar feelings about the same things.
I purchased Star Office 5.0 for Windows and removed it from my sustyem two weeks after I installed it. I have never before seen such a badly thought out environment in which to attempt to get any work done.
John Carmack is simply telling the truth. Look at the gaming market. How many Windows games do you see? How many Mac games? How many Linux games?
I run a website about The Sims ( http://www.thewageofsim.com/ ) and I was one of the first (if not the first) established The Sims websites to embrace the Mac community and convert all of my content to Mac compatible when the Mac version of The Sims was released.
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In times like these we must ask ourselves one very important question: How will this affect... Al Frankin?
I run a fairly popular Sims website (and if you think I'm going to link it here and have the poor server brought to its knees, you're nuts!) and while there are no mods in the Team Fortress/Day of Defeat/Quake Rally style, there are people all over making new skins, new body meshes, and new "onjects" for the game. I know many players of The Sims who have discovered modding the game just as their interest for the game propper has begun to wane. And suddenly they find a whole new world of possibilities for the game. Hell, I don't even play The Sims any more. All I do with it is make new stuff and figure out how things work.
Trust me, any game that lets you plug your ownb stuff in has a thriving mod community, unless the publisher has a sick up his/her ass about it.
So he's gay? So what?
Get back to the sHack! You know you're not allowed to play with adults!
Yeah, whatever.
Loki was not killed by a market not willing to buy their goods, though that did have some small contribution. It was killed by the absolute criminal incompitence of it's president.
I feel sorry for the people who Loki owes money to. I feel no pity at all for Loki.
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I really hope this is a joke. I respect Will Wheaton, but I loathe Wesley Crusher more than any other TV character that has ever existed (Cpat. Janeway comes in a close 2nd).
And to all of you whiners bitching about the AFD jokes: Get the hell over it! Relax and enjoy the laughs, you humorless luddites!
Rather than a shapeless mass, he should have put the parts in a box lined with wax paper. Wax paper does not adhear (much) to spray foam. It would then look more like a giant rice krispy treat.
The "Sims" (the people) are 3D polygons. Everything else is a sprite. But yes, they should at least use hardware acceleration where they can.
I remember the Great Green Card Lottery Day. No one had ever seen anything like it and EVERYONE was hopping-ass mad about it. Everyone. These clowns lost their accounts on their ISP and were soundly chased off the Net.
To those who claim that these guys are not responcible for the deluge of SMAP that chokes our email and has turned Usenet into a mire of watsed bandwidth, I say : "Pull your heads out of your butts and face reality."
I hope this guy rots in the deepest pits of Hell.
I've seen a lot of stupid Star Wars items, but these are the lamest things I've ever seen. They make the Jar Jar Koosh balls look like fine art.
You must be young. There was a time before the ratings system came out. All movies were made to the same basic standards then. No gratuitous violence, no nudity, the most cautiously hinted at sex, etc... It is the ratings system that allowed movie makers to create movies aimed at adults without having to water them down for children.
Go take a lok at movies made before the late 1960s. Look at how ALL of those movies were watered down and sanitized.
A little research is a good thing, sir.
There was a HUGE push to try to get casset recorders banned. They also tried it with VCRs. They didn't quite get DATs banned, but they crippled the market outside of the computer backup tape arena.
Every new technology that allows you to record content (be it original or not) has been attacked by the various entertainemnt groups. This time, however, our polititions are openly whoring themselves out.
Nothing is free. Someone pays for it. Whether it's the user, the ad company, the site owner or the taxpayer, someone pays for the sites you visit.
I run a website that costs me $400.00 a month to have hosted due to bandwidth consumption. I get about $60.00 a month in voluntary donations from visitors, but otherwise it all comes out of my pocket.
I mean, does it? "Attack of The Clownz" is going to be a gold-electroplated turd. We all know that. Does it matter if it was buffed twice or thrice when we know that just under its shiney surface is feculent shit?
it was a closed-source Windows program! *rimshot*
Really. I'd like to see something like this for Windows (yeah, I'm a heathen, deal with it).
Only a complete and utter nerd would propose on his website!
Congrabulations, Commander! Best wishes and all that!
I want a Tivo-like unit that can either save a program to VCD or let me transport the file to a PC where I can do it.
Part of what I use my VCR for is archival storage of programs that I will want to watch again and know will not be on TV for very much longer (like Reboot).
Until I can do that I see no reason to get one.
What I want is a TiVo-like device that will allow me to save programs to VCD (or even DVD-R) so that I can view them at a later date.
I mean, I'd love to record all of Reboot to VCD.
I haven't seen MI yet, but I am glad to hear that there are mo outtakes in the closing credits.
Now that I've said that, I'll tell you why:
The outtakes from "A Bugs Life" were fantastic. They were funny. They felt spontanious, like "stuff happens". They also never violated the idea that "A Bugs Life" was a movie about insects, to the point that when Molt knocks the camera over we see that the stage hands are also insects. And most of all, they were unprecedented. Almost no animated movie has ever had "outtakes" in it - animation is just too expensive to have these toss-away jokes.
The outtakes in "Toy Story 2" (on the DVD, but not the theatrical run) felt forced. They lacked the spontinaity of the Bugs Life outtakes. They felt like it was assumed that they would be there, like there was no choice. Some of them were funny, but the magic that happened in thge "A Bugs Life" outtakes was just not there.
The "outtakes" on the "Final Fantasy" DVD were just plain dumb. Only "The Sneeze" was funny, and not by much. These "outtakes" felt like they had been done by people who really didn't understand what an outtake really was, but wanted to do them anyway. As jokes for the animators to blow off steam they were okay, but they didn't belong on the DVD.
I don't want every animated film I see to have outtakes. I don't want filmakers to feel compelled to do them. They are funny the first time someone does them, but like all gags, get old real fast.
I would like to say, that wjile I loathed Wesley Crusher more than any other fictional being, to the point of actually writing fan-fic of his death, I have vener held any resentment or ill will towards Wil Wheaton in any way. As a long-time posters to the two die.die.die newsgroups I always made it a point to differentiate between the actor and his role.
It is with some wry irony that Wil and I actually like amny of the same things, and have similar feelings about the same things.
And her appearance has what to do with her writing ability?
I purchased Star Office 5.0 for Windows and removed it from my sustyem two weeks after I installed it. I have never before seen such a badly thought out environment in which to attempt to get any work done.
John Carmack is simply telling the truth. Look at the gaming market. How many Windows games do you see? How many Mac games? How many Linux games?
I run a website about The Sims ( http://www.thewageofsim.com/ ) and I was one of the first (if not the first) established The Sims websites to embrace the Mac community and convert all of my content to Mac compatible when the Mac version of The Sims was released.
My traffic is 95% Windows users. 95%.