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(David Bateson is the guy who does the voice for 47 in the games)

And can you vote for more than one?

This is just the nomination process, you can vote for 10 different games (or less, if you don't want to nominate 10) in each category. After the deadline, the games with the most nomination votes end up as the five nominees in each category for the final voting, and in that final vote you'll only get to vote for one in each category.

Retro!

Pointing anyone in the direction of eXistenZ is not a good deed!

Bad voice acting is... bad. Bad sound in games is one of my pet peeves, and 90% of amateur games with voices suffer from really poor speech. I'd much rather read the text than hear it spoken by someone who recorded it with a $5 headset they bought to use in Counter-Strike.

I tried 'cat' too, and it asked many things like "Is it brown?", "Is it striped?" and "Is it black"? I answered 'irrelevant' to all of these (because as you may or may not be aware of, cats come in many different colours), but after it guessed correctly, it disagreed with me on all of those colour answers. Said 'yes' on them all.

Why answer yes to the question "Is a cat brown?"

Why, Jennifer Lopez as Alyx of course! It's time for Ben and J Lo to recreate the magic we saw in Gigli once more.

Once upon a time there was a very large office building in a very large city. This building had 40 levels: level 1, level 2, level 3, level 4, level 5, level 6, level 7, level 8, level 9, level 10, level 11, level 12, level 13, level 14, level 15, level 16, level 17, level 18, level 19, level 20, level 21, level 22, level 23, level 24, level 25, level 26, level 27, level 28, level 29, level 30, level 31, level 32, level 33, level 34, level 35, level 36, level 37, level 38, level 39, and level 40.

One day the owner of the building decided to get a PA system installed on every level, in case there was ever a fire and everyone in the building needed to be contacted at once. The system was installed on every level: level 1, level 2, level 3, level 4, level 5, level 6, level 7, level 8, level 9, level 10, level 11, level 12, level 13, level 14, level 15, level 16, level 17, level 18, level 19, level 20, level 21, level 22, level 23, level 24, level 25, level 26, level 27, level 28, level 29, level 30, level 31, level 32, level 33, level 34, level 35, level 36, level 37, level 38, level 39, and level 40.

One day, an employee named John was doing some paperwork on the 21st level when he saw the pager for the PA system in his boss's office. He could not resist. He picked up the pager, turned it on, cleared his throat, and told a joke. It was funniest joke anyone in the building had ever heard. They were rolling in the aisles, laughing their heads off. The accountants on level 3 were in tears. The engineers on level 34 were in hysterics. In fact, workers on every level -- level 1, level 2, level 3, level 4, level 5, level 6, level 7, level 8, level 9, level 10, level 11, level 12, level 13, level 14, level 15, level 16, level 17, level 18, level 19, level 20, level 21, level 22, level 23, level 24, level 25, level 26, level 27, level 28, level 29, level 30, level 31, level 32, level 33, level 34, level 35, level 36, level 37, level 38, level 39, and level 40 -- could not stop laughing.

He walked out the door of his boss's office, feeling all proud of himself, when who should he run into but his boss. "John, come with me now!" John relunctantly followed his boss back into his office. His boss looked at him with fury in his eyes. "John," he said, "your joke was very disruptive to the workers in this building! Productivity was decreased on level 1, level 2, level 3, level 4, level 5, level 6, level 7, level 8, level 9, level 10, level 11, level 12, level 13, level 14, level 15, level 16, level 17, level 18, level 19, level 20, level 21, level 22, level 23, level 24, level 25, level 26, level 27, level 28, level 29, level 30, level 31, level 32, level 33, level 34, level 35, level 36, level 37, level 38, level 39, and level 40! You're fired! Clean out your desk and get out!"

But then his frown softened and he added, "Still, I have to admit, that joke was funny on so many levels."

I considered physics... but I chose CS (and engineering) instead.

Maybe I should have chosen physics. There were only two new physicists the year I started, compared to ~50 CS people.

...if anyone knows of an Opera button or whatever to do that it'd be useful to have, because I do prefer the way Opera does downloads aside from that.

Pressing ctrl-j can be quite useful.

Definitely.

http://www.vasarat.com/media/Kebab.wmv

You have to use a special program to extract the notes, though.

You would be best off doing it by ear. As Totoro said, there is no program that magically converts wave data to perfect notation.

I found some mp3 to midi (I searched for midi because any decent midi progam should let you view the song in notation format) converters via a quick google search, and just for the heck of it I decided to try one. The source mp3 I used was a two-piece piano tune, and the resulting midi was pretty much terrible. It got the main melody somewhat right at parts, but that was it.

You would seriously be a lot better off doing it by ear.

So, sex without marriage is sin. Gay marriage is sin.

Which is more sinful? Gays having premarital or marital sex?

DM: Me too. I never liked them in the first place.

Sorry Trapezoid.

Track listing:
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... what the hell?

The ghosts in the game dancing to Saint-Saëns' "Dance Macabre" was good enough for me!

Oh wait. Sorry, for a second there I thought the movie was going to be based on the game.

For some reason, that first image gave me this vision:


I think it was the scarf and the way you hold your hand like you're about to draw your revolver and unleash a volley on the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Nephren-Ka.

Nice pics.

I read it, LGM. I'd say I know most of what you wrote as common sense already, heh. It's a nice guide though, but judging from the people posting on that forum, I cant help but feel it's sort of... wasted on them.

I wasn't aware of the sv_noclipspeed variable. That should come in handy.

Also, I'm having too much fun with simple things:

Somebody mentioned Edward Norton in a post here somewhere...

[Gary Oldman]

How can you mention Leon without mentioning Gary Oldman!

Pretty much the only ones I've used.