Posts by Ginger Lord

Quote from FMPONE

Its pretty terribly simple then, certainly no fault of the pilots.

My dad says one of the first things he learnt in the RAF was that if you see a target with what you even think is friendly signal on it then you do not even think about firing on it.

Especially considering now that its being very widely reported that aside from the Orange panels on the roof being displayed they also had Union Jacks on them.

Dara O Brian summed it up nicely on "Mock The Week" a while ago:

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British soldiers in Iraq are being shot at on a daily basis, although obviously it'll get much safer when the Americans leave and it's only the Iraqis firing at them

I take it your an Englishman lost in Scotland then else Uni should be free no?

Mine are still there

Edit: Oh wait steam doesnt auto-update anymore, so I had to wait for it to let me restart and now steam wont restart \o/

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To be honest, If my parents were average earners I wouldn't have gone to Uni.

As it is we are technically classified as poor, earning under £13k a year or something, so the Government pays all my tuition fee's (£3k a year) and gives me a £4k loan a year which has to be payed back and a £1.5k grant which doesnt.

Good thing about paying it back in the UK is its automatically taken out of your wage (or something) and scales with what you earn. Earn a lot it takes more out, earn a little it takes less. If you're 60 then it get cancelled.

Whilst I can't say much about the paper at the end, the past 1.5 years of life have certainly been worth it

Quote from FrieChamp

Iraqis in Afgahnistan?

I'm sure there is, however this video is from Iraq.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2007060452,00.html

Guy didn't stand a chance.

The PC is a PS2 port whereas the GC version was a visual remake so its visually superior.

lol worthy indeed.

/vote XSI

For Source anyway.

I think I'll probably head towards level design. In my year off I shall have to do some SP maps and some better MP ones, HaJ is really open terrain so doesnt come off visually as amazing as other maps.

This doesnt look likes it based on the Skaven from Warhammer....at all!

I think my degree might be helpful in some aspects, its a 3 year course with the first two years being split into three aspects:

Modelling and Animation in XSI

2D Design in Photoshop/Illustrator/Director/Flash

Web Design

and in the third year you specialise and hopefully I'll go down the XSI road. This year theyve brought in a new area of specialisation and thats just purely modelling hipoly stuff (CGTalk standard etc) pretty much 1 thing a month and you have to do like 2 characters, 2 environments, 2 cars etc. Hopefully they'll keep that around else its a short animation to do.

I guess Level Designers who can model/UV/texture are much more worthwhile than those who can't.

This was on BBC News and gave me a hearty LOL.

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"It had a very sinister appearance," Coakley told reporters. "It had a battery behind it, and wires."

LOL

Its something thats always intrigued me, a job in the Games Industry but never really thought about it seriously.

If I decide to go for it, it won't be for a while (another year and a half of University left and I plan a year out as I think 17 straight years of education deserves a break!) so I have a while to think things out.

Hopefully next year I'll leave Uni with a BA(Hons) Multimedia Design & Digital Animation degree and hopefully Ham and Jam is out so thats all good things to add but what else do employers look for? I've done some freelance work for Kuma (shudder) and whilst thats relevant I'm actually not that proud of what they turned it into so I've got half a mind to forget about it.

So...er...yeah. Not quite sure where this is going but where did you guys all start out? Did you start at a place in the same country/continent or jump on the nearest plane?

Would prefer a Wii Laptop imo

Runs insanely slow in Firefox, Safari and IE for me.

Quote from TomWithTheWeather

I have a house, not a room.

Technically so do I, student house shared with 3 others. Myself and the other multimedia student probably have the majority of the electricity bills between us....I blame his dual 21" crt setup though

Is it me or is the bgmod server seriously slow. Every other webpage is fine but bgmod takes forever to load, same for forums, has been like this for months for me.

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Edit: Hmm thats a bit old actually, I have UltraMon running now so I can have DualView running and have everything thats on the second screen show up in its own taskbar not the primary one.

Only one I have on PC at the moment

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Top quality 5:1 placement

Ham and Jam

One of the reasons we named it like that was because we were annoyed with the format of WW2 game names.

i.e. like Klein said.