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    Second Life; Why Should I Be Playing It?

    What, like this ?
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    Vista, or waiting for Windows 7

    I know where your coming from but I would still disagree mainly because I think that statement is a bit out of date. A lot of software is 32 bit but theres plenty of 64 bit stuff if you do certain things. For example if you make maps then you can get Gimp in 64bit, all the 3D tools including...
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    PS3 v. X-Box 360: Which Is 'Net Ready?

    My 360 makes a racket only when playing a disk. Its the CD drive thats noisy whirring the disk around. Recently however you can DL a game from CD media to HDD and then it plays it nearly silently. And yeah there is 3x USB on the system too.
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    Thundercats, HOOOOOOOO!

    I grokked that it was forumalic and I still thought it was awesome. Because its true that every single action trailer runs on this forumla you know its going to take that line before it starts. The impressive bit was the character art, costume, shots and stuff like that when the film doesnt...
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    Telltale Signs of LCD Death?

    Some laptop displays break at the join connector to the screen in those cases you can often see lots and lots of flickering pixels like a star field glittering over the top of the proper screen. Sometimes this is down one side or sometimes all over pretty uniformly. Often a reboot fixes it and...
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    Shaded Relief Experiments

    We have been chatting over at cartographers guild but for anyone else who wants to follow then go here: Greetings - Cartographers' Guild or ask for more info here too.
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    Dungeon tiles

    If your interested we had a challenge at the cartographers guild to generate some mapping tiles. Several types from various people made them. *** August challenge - Battlemap Tiles on the go *** - Cartographers' Guild
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    The Grand New Xbox Experience

    Yeah its all a bit mneh... but I like the way you can download a game to the HDD now - it runs a lot quieter that way, presumably uses a little less power though Bungie reckons it might slow down the game... I find that hard to believe. HDD slower than disk, even if run in parallel then its not...
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    Tennant to Quit as Dr Who

    Thanks, and that sounds excellent then. Another time lord is still hanging around.
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    Tennant to Quit as Dr Who

    I read somewhere that Patrick Stewart was going to be a time lord. Do you think that he might be the doctor or just a part in an episode where there are other time lords ? Havent quite worked out yet if there are any other time lords now given that there wern't supposed to be any more and then...
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    Laser or Inkjet Printer?

    I would echo prior statements. Go B&W and get a cheap laser and don't bother with inkjet unless you use it quite a bit. But if your able to get a really truly cheap color laser and it really does turn out to be cheap then hell yeah & put me on the list of being notified if its possible. Use a...
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    Been awhile before I took a hand to Mapmaking...

    Ah sorry, well all I can say is that I see a lot of maps with those border lines where they were supposed to be rivers.
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    Been awhile before I took a hand to Mapmaking...

    Its not too bad. The rivers do need fixing. You should try out the cartographers guild dot com and they will have lots to say about every map posted. Theres a thread on there all about what to do and not to do with rivers - what they call river violations ;) because they come up so often they...
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    Steampunk Airship WIP

    I use CGTextures.com - they are free for 15Mb but if you use a lot of them then you can sign up for membership which is not all that expensive and you can download much more. Have you seen the 3DMark demos ? I cant remember exactly which one but I think its 3DMark06 which has a similar 3D steam...
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    [3D Art] Eladrin Swordmage

    These are good also, I like the top one better. The detail and texture on all the man made stuff is excellent and it works in the background. The skin texture does not look right tho as its looks plasticky. Skin is notoriously hard too tho. Maybe like the snow some sub surface scattering might...
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    [3D art] Elf frost mage

    I like the character and the ways the eyes point at the globe. The lighting is good too. The snow isnt too bad but its not quite right though its hard to do snow. The properties of snow are quite complex and you have to light it right too or else it does not work out. I could never get the hang...
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    Finding maps and art and stuff - Exact Keywords?

    "cartographers guild" "rpgmapshare" would be good starters...
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    Halo3 TU2 ?

    Just to wrap this up as its diverting the thread a bit. If we take Halo 3 Leaderboards - Xbox 360 and take guy with most kills which is iSpade V2 and get his bungie record... Bungie.net : Bungie Online : Halo 3 Career Stats If you look at career stats and kills then 4.77% of his are due to...
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    Halo3 TU2 ?

    Hmm, yeah, I do only a small amount of my total kills in melee - I tend to play the bigger team games tho. TU is the Title Update which adds some behind the scenes stuff and theres more user banning for acting like idiots etc plus a change to many of the maps. Had a go with the new systems and...
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    Oni's Doodles

    I like this one... nice robes... heh heh Nice work all round Oni - very stylish, and if you can doodle like this in a half hour whilst watching TV then I am truly envious.
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