If you sign up on Gleemax (currently free)fwiw, I just created an account there. Same user name as here.
Like any of that's enough to fight the Dark Master. Bator.
Xander ,'Lessons'
Gaming 1: You are likely to be eaten by a grue
A thread for the discussion of games: board, LARP, MMORPG, video, tabletop RPG, game theory etc. etc. and all attendant news, developments and ancillary subjects thereof, as well as coordinating/scheduling games either online or IRL. All are welcome to chime in, talk about their favorite games or learn about gaming of any sort.
PLEASE TO WHITEFONT SPOILERS for video games, RPG modules or anything for which foreknowledge of events might lessen one's enjoyment of whatever gaming experience.
omnis_audis - May 06, 2008 8:57:52 pm PDT #439 of 26133
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Volans - May 07, 2008 8:45:21 am PDT #440 of 26133
move out and draw fire
Coolness: The company that did the character animations for GTA4 offers the ability to map your own facial expressions onto an avatar. [link]
And if you want it to LOOK like you, there's Big Stage.
Big Stage is a media company whose breakthrough technology allows users to easily create and integrate a life-like 3D avatar of themselves into everything from famous movie scenes, TV shows and video games, to music videos, short video clips, virtual worlds, still images, user-generated content, instant messages, emails, social networks and more - instantly. Big Stage will launch to consumers in the second quarter of 2008.
(Why yes, I am working on the metaverse, why?)
amych - May 07, 2008 8:47:10 am PDT #441 of 26133
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Ick. 3-D avatar space is way too uncanny valley for me already.
Pete, Husband of Jilli - May 07, 2008 11:28:55 am PDT #442 of 26133
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
Coolness: The company that did the character animations for GTA4 offers the ability to map your own facial expressions onto an avatar.
Oh man, that's cool. Wow, I would like to play with that software.
One wonders if, 20 years from now, this tech will be so cheap & easy that people are making their own feature length animations. A cottage industry or just more noise to signal?
amych - May 07, 2008 11:30:59 am PDT #443 of 26133
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I'd guess closer to 5. And that, as with everything, 90% crap, a few % sheer brilliance.
CaBil - May 07, 2008 11:49:17 am PDT #444 of 26133
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.
Hey, it's been one of my wandering thoughts that someday, someone would figure out to lift the Buffy video game sets/models, and use them to create new fan episodes...
Kevin - May 07, 2008 9:29:54 pm PDT #445 of 26133
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Or episodes of Willow and Spike having Big Vampire Sex!
Sean K - May 07, 2008 10:52:59 pm PDT #446 of 26133
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
All the GTA4 talk got me to finally install a Windows partition on my Macbook, so I could play all my windows based games, including GTA3.
Windows runs okay on the Macbook, but Leopard is so much shinier.
hippocampus - May 08, 2008 3:45:42 am PDT #447 of 26133
not your mom's socks.
Oh man, that's cool. Wow, I would like to play with that software.
Second that.
brenda m - May 08, 2008 4:17:45 am PDT #448 of 26133
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Oh, T-Rex, how do you rock so hard? [link]