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I like vodkas, I think it's totally tech. Who says tech has to be clean and shiny?

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wow, looking at the screens on my laptop monitor they dont look dark at all, but on my other crt it looks almost pitch black in some places.

there is only two things I can't stand . . .

trust me, we might like dark maps, but there has never been a largely popular dark map in the existence of multiplayer shooter maps. Average fps player = *cranks up brightness all the way, man this map looks all washed out and shitty* just my 2 cents that being said, it still looks hawt

looks very spooky. It looks a little dark though, peoples monitors are so different that for some people I'm sure that map will be pitch black. Just a word of warning, most of the general public loathe dark maps.

pffft, I would nver be jealous of the amout of time and energy valve got to put into it's demos and then have it compared directly to bloodlines which has had 1/4 the time, 1/4 the amount of devs, and 4x more content than hl2. But those are the breaks, nobody will consider that when looking at both games but thats allright. becuase I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and dog-gonnit . . people like me!

you have to understand that valve spent literally years on those individual demo maps. The maps that they have had to put together at the end here for the actual game are not going to be as shiny and polished as those.

I don't expect the actual game to be nearly as polished as the demos valve has been showing up untill this point. This is an example of that. However, I'm not really too concerned with how it looks, because thats not the reason I want to play it.

so we can publicize the stats of homosexual banter?

no projector stuff like that in hl2 . . . thats the render-to-texture camera, like they showed in the demo before.

words of wisdom.

what a novel idea. /me pulls out Urban's time machine

so gray. mazy, your avatar wins all.

I do sell my body, yes. But due to recent lawsuits, only to humans, and not on video.

sweet, that looks like a pretty rad projector. This is the one I'm looking at upgrading to once a decent HD DVD format comes out. http://www.projectorcentral.com/InFocus ... y_7200.htm I know what you mean about the DLP's, we have one at work and I see rainbows and stuff sometimes. This one has a 5x color wheel though, where most are 2 or 3, so I think thats gonna help a lot. I like LCD except for the screen door effect and the not so black blacks.

c'mon Mr. home theatre junie at least tell me what resolution it is and if it's DLP or LCD

what projector do you have?

I was using a portable projector screen, but I'm just using a regular white wall now.

this was my old apartment setup, right now in my new house we just have the projector going from floor to cieling on the wall. What kind of projector do you have bic? Whenever HD dvds start coming out I'm going to upgrade to a higer rez 16:9 dlp.

wheels are ROUND. stop chamfering

mm, hl2 dosen't really use tons more models than any of the next gen stuff.

I dunno, it seems like this guy is talking things a bit personally, maybe all the fans that thought valve personally violated thier asshole by lying about thier ship date should step back and try to stop playing games for a little while. Was valve's actions a little immoral? Sure. But valve is still a business, and they are selling people a product. Untill that product is out, they don't really owe anyone anything. All the bussiness to bussiness interactions with other developers, magazines, ati, etc, I think thats pretty bad practice in some cases, but I don't think anybody except the people at those respective businesses know exactly what happened in those cases, and I don't really think it's very fair for the layperson non-industry person to judge much in those instances. Also, CS:CZ not shipping for 6 months or whatever after it went gold wass entirely sierra's decision, which valve had no control over. I'm not defending valve here, they do some stupid stuff, sure. But so do a lot of other companies, and the only reason this kinda stuff makes big news is beacuse everyone has a magnifying glass over them.

It looks like they gave the lighting quite a sexy overhaul. Did you read about how the maps will scale to the number of players on the server? /me imagines running around like godzilla and smashing buildings under the butt of his gun when playing by himself on a server.

I'm not much into cars, but macs cars are fun to ride in