Posts by Fletch

Quote from KungFuSquirrel

Officially it was just strong wind, but the localized nature of where the damage showed up (and the wind going one way one second, the other way the next, and all over the place the next at the time it happened) has me thinking funnel that just didn't touch down.

We had something like that hit Lawrence. They officially called it a micro-burst, which meants tornadic winds but no funnel. There was a retaining wall across the street from my house that had a bunch of gravel on top of it. All the gravel got picked up and thrown down the street like buckshot. Every car on the street lost a window or two. Very odd ting to see.

Wow, let's raytrace some shit.

If you're just using it for school, I suggest with just the straight MacBook (not the Pro). It's small, rugged, has tons of built in apps, and is one of the easiest things to use on wifi networks.

Psssh, I wanna see new footage.

Quote from Thrik

Oh well. You've always got Fortress Forever for the realistic take.

Your use of the world realistic is funny to me.

We all watched this at Gearbox. I think the consensus is that the game looks like ass and will probably suck.

Just kidding. Totally inviso-stabbing people when it comes out.

Needs suicide bomber belts.

Quote from Fletch

http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=24232Prepare to have your childhood memories raped by burly men.

Edit: Sorry, copied and pasted too fast.

http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=24232

Prepare to have your childhood memories raped by burly men.

I wish people had focused the shots, though.

ahhhh good times.... especially because i don't remember a good chunk of the night.

remote control helicopters are actually really hard to fly. the cheap ones aren't balanced properly, and the expensive ones are so touchy that it can takes months to hone your skills. That's why we use a mini bike.

Today I spent 4 hours taking things that don't work and putting them together to make them work. Well, actually they still don't work, but they're halfway there. I crashed the editor a dozen times, including a hard reboot of my entire system. While doing this, two coworkers were doing the same thing and coming to the same crashes. It was a hell of a lot of fun, and I stayed late just to try to get the samn thing working before the weekend.

Like some people say, it's the journey, not the destination.

Worms2 in-game editor (later imported from Photoshop)

Brothers In Arms by Dire Straits (title has nothing to do with the game. it was written in the 80s. jsut cosmic irony)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWe5_v5b ... ed&search=

needs some decals and overlays to help break up some of the repetition. Try some rust stains under balconies, smog stains, etc.

Maggie is totally going to eat your cat one of these days.

Quote from mikezilla

Someone was expecting a bit too much from their sci-fi FPS

Well, no.

My point is you can't say this movie, that exists far above what HL2 managed to pull, ripped anything off from it.

HL2 ripped off it's plot from random scraps of paper pulled out of George Lucas's trashcan.

Quote from dissonance

I work at Gearbox. But when I was in high school I worked at CompUSA. It has led to my hatred of retail stores, rebate forms, Family Tree Maker, and computer salesmen. On the bright side, I got my Dreamcast for cost.

I work at compusa right now, and i agree with everything there. oh, and add 'management' to that list. and remove the dreamcast, and replace it with episode 1 for $14.God damned assholes buying their 9.99 copy of Family Tree Maker and being too stupid to figure out how a mail-in rebate works.

I hate to break it to you, but the whole "run down, post-apocalyptic future" genre was around way before HL2.