Posts by FrieChamp

Quote from Thrik

*hug* :wink:

Thrik if you use the " " smiley one more time, I will personally fly to England and stab you in your sleep.

For real.

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I'm going to try putting a duplicate of the forums on my own hosting

Thrik's taking over? This is 1933 all over again! :wink:

Is there a statement from the provider yet? Maybe switch host?

I am surprised nobody has said "Nintendo" yet

I'm not sure which AVP I played, either the first or second one. I think the first the one. It was definitely an amazing game, but I got stuck somewhere and quit playing..

Thanks for the replies, I guess that makes sense. It's just weird I've never heard of this before, maybe because in the Alien movies the Aliens just hatch from humans (or dogs).

Still a lot more confusing stuff in the movie

Hey, simple question:

Who is the number one in the games business to you today? This could be a games development studio, a publisher, a hardware manufacturer, whoever as long as it's a company and it is associated with games. It doesn't matter for what reason you think this specific company is king, as long as you mention it (because it makes tons of cash, or creates great games, or develops amazing technology, or...).

Stoked to hear your answers!

For those who enjoy reading comics, there is an interesting offer by Marvel - it's called digital comics, you pay 60 $ a year and you can read as many comics online as you want to. I'm not that much into comics, I prefer cartoons, but it sure is a cool move by Marvel. Definitely cheaper than buying physical comics: http://www.marvel.com

*wondering why hessi doesn't reply*

Yea it's a mesh/part of the map.

Aww so he gets his birffday thread after all.

Happy Birthday again

Ok, so my friend dragged me to the movies to watch "Alien vs Predator 2" or "Alien vs Predator Requiem" as it is called outside of Germany I believe (don't ask me why they change the name, I guess movie studios believe it isn't just enough to dub the movies here - they think we are so retarded they have to simplify the movie titles as well). I had really low expectations, it got a 6.0 on IMDB, which is not abysmal, but not great either. I might add I watched the first AVP on DVD and that wasn't very good either. I'm a big fan of the Alien movies and the original Predator movie was pretty cool too. Also the only review on IMDB said it was worth watching if you like the creatures so I thought what the hell...

My buddy didn't enjoy the movie at all (he obviously expected more) and while I got some giggles out of it ("Daddy, what's wrong with you?" - "UAARRRGHH!!" or "There is no monster outside your window....AAARGRGRH!!") I didn't particularly think it was amazing either. I guess it was entertaining, but a couple of things struck me as odd. I'm no Alien expert but I've watched all movies, some of them multiple times, and AVP2 brought up a few questions. Maybe some of you have watched the movie and can answer them.

I might have missed something but according to my memory and images on the internets the Alien queen from "Aliens" looked something like this:

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The queen in AVP2 looked like this though:

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Like an Alien-Predator hybrid. Just because it hatched from the inside of a predator at the beginning of the movie? And why could it directly insert baby Aliens into a human woman, isn't it supposed to lay eggs first from which the facehuggers hatch? Is there actually some background behind this, or was that just another lame method to speed up the incubation time? The whole movie was like fast-forward, at least what the development of the Aliens was concerned...

Is there some connection between the end of the first AVP movie and the 2nd one, at least what the predators are concerned?

Why did just one Predator fly to Earth and then tried to erase any evidence about the Aliens with that blue acid?

Does anyone have a suspicion what the ending could mean (in regards to the left over predator weapon and "It isn't meant for this world anyway")?

I'd laugh my ass off if this happened on a server I was playing on. I'm sure ppl at Valve do the same and then get right on to fix these exploits.

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Ok, enough of this, carry on, everybody else post their pics!

http://www.shacknews.com/featuredarticl ... #TF2Grief2

The trivia session made me

Hey Dux

I got a spoiler for you:

She's a man.

Photo from new years eve with friends (I'm on the left).

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Zacker is a baaaad boy

Hey guys, finally some fresh corporate talk! This christmas holiday thing was getting boring anyway...

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Midway CEO David Zucker has a plan, one that he hopes will guide the video game publisher and developer to its first annual profit since 1999. The key lies with producing "fewer, bigger, better" games, he told the Chicago Tribune.Other initiatives include an emphasis on license-driven titles based on movies and more active involvement from newly-elected Midway chairwoman Shari Redstone, daughter of majority shareholder and Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone.

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/50538

Fewer, bigger (more expensive) titles, if possible based on licenses.

Does anybody else see a pattern here?

Hey HP, good stuff, but before I comment any further - is this going to be a singleplayer or multiplayer level?

I finally convinced my friend, who owns a Wii and is more of a 2D Mario fan, to get SMG and he likes it a lot, already finished it. I don't know what made me uncomfortable when I tried it.

I still find myself struggling with the 2 hands controller scheme, I don't have a Wii myself, so I probably just don't have enough time to get used to it. Might have also been the fact that I played one of the later levels or my friends repeatedly calling me an "idiot" when I played it.

I must say that I was quite impressed by the flawless execution of the 3D element, finally a game one can truly call a 3D platformer! The game's visuals were ace too, nice shaders and textures - I never thought games on the Wii could look so great!

You make me envious about the Tahoe skiing thing by the way