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General Discussion / Re: This cracked me up
« Last post by Naaman on 18 August 2013, 12:57:00 am »Because...
why not
Nice displays
why not
Nice displays
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General Discussion / Re: This cracked me up
« Last post by Monochrome on 15 August 2013, 02:25:59 pm »Knowing the love for all things steam based among some of our number, need a dog ?
http://i1.wp.com/www.bristol-culture.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Gromit-Unleashed-Steam-Dog-by-Dan-Shearn.jpg?resize=1632%2C1224
There is a project called Gromit unleashed going on in Bristol where various Gromit sculptures are appearing all over the city.
http://i1.wp.com/www.bristol-culture.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Gromit-Unleashed-Steam-Dog-by-Dan-Shearn.jpg?resize=1632%2C1224
There is a project called Gromit unleashed going on in Bristol where various Gromit sculptures are appearing all over the city.
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General Discussion / KickAss 2
« Last post by Monochrome on 14 August 2013, 07:33:49 pm »Saw it this afternoon, if you enjoyed the first film, I think you'll enjoy the second.
Pro tip - the scene after the end credits matters.
Pro tip - the scene after the end credits matters.
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General Discussion / American Film Standards or Hollywood Reality
« Last post by Asherbanipal on 13 August 2013, 05:24:47 am »If you wish to become a Hollywood director remember these golden rules:
* During all police investigations, it will be necessary to visit a strip club at least once.
* When they are alone, all foreigners prefer to speak English to each other.
* All historical events had at least one American involved to take the credit, even before America existed.
* If being chased through town, you can usually take cover in a passing St. Patrick's Day parade - at any time of year.
* All beds have special L-shaped cover sheets which reach up to the armpit level on a woman but only to the waist level on the man lying beside her.
* The Chief of Police will almost always suspend his star detective - or give him 48 hours to finish the job.
* All grocery bags contain at least one stick of French Bread. Also there must a minimum of two bags per person
* It's easy for anyone to land a plane providing there is someone to talk you down.
* The ventilation system of any building is the perfect hiding place - no one will ever think of looking for you in there and you can travel to any other part of the building undetected.
* Police departments give their officers personality tests to make sure they are deliberately assigned to a partner who is their polar opposite.
* At least one detective must be a recovering alcoholic.
* The Eiffel Tower can be seen from any window in Paris.
* All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices with large red readouts so you know exactly when they are going to go off.
* If you need to reload your gun, you will always have more ammunition, even if you haven't been carrying any before now.
* You are very likely to survive any battle in any war unless you make the mistake of showing someone a picture of your sweetheart back home.
* Should you wish to pass yourself off as a German officer, it will not be necessary to speak the language - a German accent will do.
* If your town is threatened by an imminent natural disaster or killer beast, the mayor's first concern will be the tourist trade or his forthcoming art exhibition.
* If there is something strange going on, never be the most nervous woman. You will be killed first.
* A policeman cannot arrest anybody without having a shootout with automatic weapons.
* A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating but will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds.
* When paying for a taxi, don't look at your wallet as you take out a bill - just grab one at random and hand it over. It will always be the exact fare.
* All scenes set in Italy must be in either Rome or Venice. Nowhere else in Italy exists.
* Kitchens don't have light switches. When entering a kitchen at night, you should open the fridge door and use that light instead.
* If staying in a haunted house, women should investigate any strange noises in their most revealing underwear.
* Mothers routinely cook eggs, bacon and waffles for their family every morning even though their husband and children never have time to eat it.
* Cars that crash will almost always burst into flames. If a car flies over a cliff, it will burst into flames before it hits the ground.
* All telephone numbers in America begin with the digits 555.
* A single match will be sufficient to light up a room the size of RFK stadium.
* Living in Medieval times means everyone had perfect teeth. Women had hairstylists with all the latest hair products.
* All prostitutes have hearts of gold.
* Any person waking from a nightmare will sit bolt upright and pant.
* It is not necessary to hello or goodbye when beginning or ending phone conversations.
* Even when driving down a perfectly straight road, it is necessary to turn the wheel vigorously from left to right every few moments.
* It is always possible to park directly outside the building you are visiting.
* Everybody in ancient Rome either had a horse or a chariot.
* A detective can only solve a case once he has been suspended from duty.
* It does not matter if you are heavily outnumbered in a fight involving martial arts - your enemies will patiently attack you one by one by dancing around in a threatening manner until you have knocked out their predecessors.
* When a person is knocked unconscious by a blow to the head, they will never suffer a concussion or brain damage.
* No-one ever involved in a car chase, hijacking, explosion, volcanic eruption or alien invasion will ever go into shock.
* Once applied, lipstick will never rub off - even while scuba diving.
* You can always find a chainsaw when you need one.
* Everybody has a lawyer on call.
* Any lock can be picked by a credit card or a paper clip in seconds - unless it's the door to a burning building with a child trapped inside.
* Television news bulletins usually contain a story that affects you personally at the precise moment that it is aired.
* If you take off your helmet in a war film you will be shot in the head.
* If America is invaded by aliens, it means the End of the world.
* During all police investigations, it will be necessary to visit a strip club at least once.
* When they are alone, all foreigners prefer to speak English to each other.
* All historical events had at least one American involved to take the credit, even before America existed.
* If being chased through town, you can usually take cover in a passing St. Patrick's Day parade - at any time of year.
* All beds have special L-shaped cover sheets which reach up to the armpit level on a woman but only to the waist level on the man lying beside her.
* The Chief of Police will almost always suspend his star detective - or give him 48 hours to finish the job.
* All grocery bags contain at least one stick of French Bread. Also there must a minimum of two bags per person
* It's easy for anyone to land a plane providing there is someone to talk you down.
* The ventilation system of any building is the perfect hiding place - no one will ever think of looking for you in there and you can travel to any other part of the building undetected.
* Police departments give their officers personality tests to make sure they are deliberately assigned to a partner who is their polar opposite.
* At least one detective must be a recovering alcoholic.
* The Eiffel Tower can be seen from any window in Paris.
* All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices with large red readouts so you know exactly when they are going to go off.
* If you need to reload your gun, you will always have more ammunition, even if you haven't been carrying any before now.
* You are very likely to survive any battle in any war unless you make the mistake of showing someone a picture of your sweetheart back home.
* Should you wish to pass yourself off as a German officer, it will not be necessary to speak the language - a German accent will do.
* If your town is threatened by an imminent natural disaster or killer beast, the mayor's first concern will be the tourist trade or his forthcoming art exhibition.
* If there is something strange going on, never be the most nervous woman. You will be killed first.
* A policeman cannot arrest anybody without having a shootout with automatic weapons.
* A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating but will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds.
* When paying for a taxi, don't look at your wallet as you take out a bill - just grab one at random and hand it over. It will always be the exact fare.
* All scenes set in Italy must be in either Rome or Venice. Nowhere else in Italy exists.
* Kitchens don't have light switches. When entering a kitchen at night, you should open the fridge door and use that light instead.
* If staying in a haunted house, women should investigate any strange noises in their most revealing underwear.
* Mothers routinely cook eggs, bacon and waffles for their family every morning even though their husband and children never have time to eat it.
* Cars that crash will almost always burst into flames. If a car flies over a cliff, it will burst into flames before it hits the ground.
* All telephone numbers in America begin with the digits 555.
* A single match will be sufficient to light up a room the size of RFK stadium.
* Living in Medieval times means everyone had perfect teeth. Women had hairstylists with all the latest hair products.
* All prostitutes have hearts of gold.
* Any person waking from a nightmare will sit bolt upright and pant.
* It is not necessary to hello or goodbye when beginning or ending phone conversations.
* Even when driving down a perfectly straight road, it is necessary to turn the wheel vigorously from left to right every few moments.
* It is always possible to park directly outside the building you are visiting.
* Everybody in ancient Rome either had a horse or a chariot.
* A detective can only solve a case once he has been suspended from duty.
* It does not matter if you are heavily outnumbered in a fight involving martial arts - your enemies will patiently attack you one by one by dancing around in a threatening manner until you have knocked out their predecessors.
* When a person is knocked unconscious by a blow to the head, they will never suffer a concussion or brain damage.
* No-one ever involved in a car chase, hijacking, explosion, volcanic eruption or alien invasion will ever go into shock.
* Once applied, lipstick will never rub off - even while scuba diving.
* You can always find a chainsaw when you need one.
* Everybody has a lawyer on call.
* Any lock can be picked by a credit card or a paper clip in seconds - unless it's the door to a burning building with a child trapped inside.
* Television news bulletins usually contain a story that affects you personally at the precise moment that it is aired.
* If you take off your helmet in a war film you will be shot in the head.
* If America is invaded by aliens, it means the End of the world.
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General Discussion / Re: The Phoenix Project
« Last post by Naaman on 21 July 2013, 10:47:11 pm »Looks good
You'll have to remind us closer to the KS launch
You'll have to remind us closer to the KS launch
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General Discussion / The Phoenix Project
« Last post by Monochrome on 15 July 2013, 03:35:19 pm »Rather than necro the old thread, I thought I'd give an idea where things are going with writing the CoH spiritual successor:
Kickstarter goes live Sept 8. proposed perks http://missingworldsmedia.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1902 (this link may break as we're migrating to a different set of forums at some point)
Expect to see a load of goodies to be revealed about our progress then.
The plan if the KS is successful is that we will release in stages, character generator some time in 2014 and the full game in late 2015.
We had issues with Cry, in that they had no clue how they were going to run their 3rd party licensing and mucked us about so we switched to the Unreal engine.
Kickstarter goes live Sept 8. proposed perks http://missingworldsmedia.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1902 (this link may break as we're migrating to a different set of forums at some point)
Expect to see a load of goodies to be revealed about our progress then.
The plan if the KS is successful is that we will release in stages, character generator some time in 2014 and the full game in late 2015.
We had issues with Cry, in that they had no clue how they were going to run their 3rd party licensing and mucked us about so we switched to the Unreal engine.
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General Discussion / Re: This cracked me up
« Last post by Zombieman on 14 July 2013, 09:52:36 am »Watch these in order 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8O8YcTVZi4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQhOeunwaxQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8O8YcTVZi4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQhOeunwaxQ
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General Discussion / Ego Trip for Real Men and Explosives
« Last post by Asherbanipal on 4 June 2013, 04:46:58 am »Forget about your space lasers, hydrogen bombs and namby pamby Death Stars. Checkout Thunderf00t's U-Tube video on the EXPLOSIVE properties of neutrons, the small particles found in the centre of atoms. The Video is called 'The Doomsday Explosive! (The Neutronium Bomb)' and can be found at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_EBqZPCZdw.
And remember folks this stuff weighs 1 billion tons per cubic cemtimetre and can only be found in neutron stars, so book early before your friendly Galaxy Destroying Megalomanic gets his hands on the stuff!
And remember folks this stuff weighs 1 billion tons per cubic cemtimetre and can only be found in neutron stars, so book early before your friendly Galaxy Destroying Megalomanic gets his hands on the stuff!
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General Discussion / Re: This cracked me up
« Last post by Monochrome on 2 April 2013, 02:33:01 pm »While CoH may be dead, the devs and their humour live on:
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City of Heroes®, the world’s most popular super-powered MMO is celebrating its upcoming non-existent 9th anniversary with a special promotion, “0 XP Weekend.” During the special “0 XP Weekend,” players will find that no matter what missions they complete or villains they defeat, they will earn no experience or even influence. It’ll be like they’re not even playing the game anymore.
“Our Marketing team spent a lot of money and time into research what our players want, and it turns out that most players don’t actually enjoy leveling,” said former Paragon Studios Lead Designer Matt “[REDACTED]” Miller, “In fact, our surveys indicate that players believe that earning no experience will make them feel even more heroic.”
Additionally, since City of Heroes® no longer requires a client download, a server, or even a computer, players will be able to enjoy “0 XP Weekend” everywhere they go, on every mobile and non-mobile device.
“I kept telling people we’re going to take it to the next level. Well, we already hit the top, so the only other place left to go is back to rock bottom!” said Melissa Bianco, former Lead Producer for City of Heroes®.
For a successful MMO, such a dramatic system-wide change could take months or years of development time, and cause permanent changes to the game’s ecosystem. Fortunately, now that City of Heroes® is no longer in production, the former Paragon Studios Development Team has found that they’re able to make any imaginary changes they want with absolutely no lead time or consequences.
“We’ve already tested out ‘0 XP Weekends’ on the beta shard, and the players have been ecstatic about it. Or they would have been if we still had a beta shard. Or players.” said Nate Birkholz, the former Former Producer for City of Heroes®.
