Yow!  Great find Tebunker!  I'm off to get me a few gems...

Yea, we only played a few rounds and 1/2 of them team members lost their connections.  I'd call it a tie as the two rounds where everyone stayed connected I won one and Tim won one.  There will be a rematch....

Hate to break it to you Loren, but X-Files never came to mind when I saw your username.  

Happy 4th my friend.

I'm online and hosting right now.  THe wife sprang a surprise party on me and bought me a grill.  So I've been grillin like a villan.  Now I'm going to take a break from that to rough you guys up for a little while.

Well, with the shindig beginning to wind down, lets plan to get together in about two hours. (Its almost 6:00pm PST)  Cool?

You better cut it out with that Jade GARDEN stuff....I know one of the programmers reads this forum.  

The thing that impressed me the most was how seamlessly you could bounce between a hard martial arts style, then whip off a few magic spells, then finish them off with a swipe of the sword.   I played the game for an hour at a private meeting with Bioware during E3 (no cameras allowed.  ) and I never felt like I was fighting the system or the controls.

You'll really dig Jade Empire then, they have put so much effort into that game.  Best Action/RPG hybrid I've seen in a long time.

I just don't know you anymore....

In my opinion, Brooke Burns is hotter than Brooke Burke.  Granted, I think I'll have to just block out that she is dating Bruce "Hudson Hawk" Willis.

If somebody keeps track of a ladder or scores I'll be more than happy to shower the winner with glory on the front page.  As for the losers...well...we can beat you like the dogs you are.

Flattery will get you nowhere.

Besides, this is more my speed:

But not the worst superhero ever...that honor is split between Captain Planet and Aquaman.  Uh...one guy is a greenpeace nut with no real powers unless people believe in him (might as well be the Easter Bunny for crying out loud!) and the other can talk to fish...uh whatever man.

Yow, I'm right there with your kid Mike...that was one fantastic movie.

I found that watching paint dry was far more exciting than The Hulk.  :/

http://www.pulplit.com/display/generic.php/15.html

Says so right there.  I can't make this up....

Riiiiight.... your "Son" will be going in "HIS" spidey suit.

Where is that damned Tron dude pic when I need it....

Yea?  Nay?  Rehash?  Rotten Tomatoes looks good on the subject, but I always like to ask others that I know have the same movie tastes that I do...

Ah, nice.  I came in here to post it but you beat me to it!

What are your plans for the fourth?  Anything?  Gaming?  Hiking?  Sulking because you have no friends?  Working?

Just like the Ninja Gaiden debacle, sometimes reviewers just score low to draw attention to themselves.  Like a four year old, acting out.

What times work for everyone?  I'm thinking in the evening is best....

IGN is surley and hateful and CG is run by gamers who still remember that games are supposed to be fun?  I'm just speculating here...
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Welcome JoePez.  I'm gonna defer to Tim on this one as he has played both.  When I asked him a similar question he did say that the only version he is aware of is that the Xbox does load the levels (it only loads between levels) faster and that it supports progressive (I believe).

He'll answer when he gets a sec.

Well, for some of the newer problems (DSO Exploit) there is no defense other than not using IE.  MS has to patch it for that one to go away.  Unfortunately you can't just kill a process as it runs as a batch and the file name and registry entry is polymorphic.  These things resemble their virii brothers more and more every day...

Tim put up his Spider-Man 2 review at 12:01am this morning to make sure you guys could read it before you buy it.  Any thoughts or questions for him?

You would have just got your ass whipped anyway.  

Taunt taunt taunt!!

July 3rd is MY BIRTHDAY!  I wanna play Crimson Skies with you guys again...it was so much fun that it has to be done again.

I will also crank up Pandora Tomorrow and do dedicated hosting if there is an interest...

The little minigame that looks like an old scrolling arcade game was actually a joke?  Just something to distract and break away from the code for a little bit of fun.  Seems that the testers liked it so much that they demanded that it stay in the full version.  

Just posted some new screens for Rogue agent on the site, man that game is starting to look nice.  With EA onboard with Live, what does this spell for the Cube and PS2 version?  Yes, the PS2 has multiplayer, but by the time the game is released will the Cube shift to online, or will Live escalate the sales of the Xbox version far above even the installed userbase of the PS2?  Any way you slice it, its gonna be very cool!

Well, at this point just about anything. Money keeps the lights on, trades are welcome too though...I'll be honest though, I'm hard to trade with.  I uh...run this joint.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_26/b3889095_mz063.htm

Apparently, 3 out of 100 actually click on those spyware pop-ups.  With that, those companies get 37 million in sales.  Positive reinforcement to cause them to continue doing it?  I think so...

Good news....our review goes up one day early, so you'll be able to read it before you buy it!  Keep an eye out...only a few hours!

Ugh, when you can't skip it or fast forward it, its.....

....


....even...

....worse....


....than....

....normal.

Best of luck and you have my appreciation for doing what it takes to keep the site running full steam ahead!

Is there another speed?

Thanks for the question, glad to see folks care enough to ask.

Stiffler,

You have just experienced what has consumed my time for the last week.  I wish I could say it was a bandwidth issue, but its not.  Our current host up and suspended us the other day without warning or notice (awfully nice isn't it?) and that is when we found that we were utilizing too much CPU horsepower.   It seems that our wonderful site is too 'feature-rich' and all those database accesses are bringing the server to the ground.  I convinced the host to give us a little bit more time to try to correct the issue, but you can see they much prefer to just suspend my account when the site gets 'too busy'.  

All that said, we have found a new host that assures us that they can handle us easily (they host Nasdaq, Gateway, Shacknews, Fileshack, etc.) so if it comes down to it we might be moving there rather quickly.  If that does come to pass, I'll be posting in here explaining all of that and what the repercussions will be.  Or as I like to say...more to know as I know it.

[Burnout 3]

I'm with you on Burnout 3, I really enjoyed the previous ones and I'm hoping that having EA as a publisher doesn't wreck the whole damned thing, Lord knows they have shit on my dreams before. *cough Ultima cough*

In the more immediate, Spider-Man 2 is by all accounts knocks the socks off, and based off what little bit I've seen that is absolutely true.  Tim's review is embargoed until Wednesday, so expect it the second the clock strikes 12:00.  

I'd have to say that I'm looking forward to Fable still, it looks unique enough to make me interested to play it at least twice, once on each side of the neutral.  

On the RPG and Adventure side of things, I'm really looking forward to Star Ocean: Till the End of Time,  KOTOR2, Syberia II (the wife really enjoyed the first one), and Advent Rising just covering the next few months.

Destroy all humans was only in video form and a looooong way off according to Pandemic.  Hopefully that eases some things, but I definately see your point.

Yea, I could see a few people in that Sailor Moon thread answering one way or the other depending on their attire.....

Male?  Female?  Feel free to cheat and look if you are unsure.

Ok, so I'm listening to NPR on my way home and I hear that there is going to be an enforcement raid on border crossers over the next week.  Umm.....doesn't anyone think it is odd that they are announcing this the week prior?  

*Knock Knock*
"Yes?"
"Uh, hi, this is the police...we are going to raid your crackhouse next week, ok?  Don't remove any evidence and make sure everyone is there and unarmed, ok?"
"Uh..ok...see you next week."
"K, thanks buy!"

Why would anyone who has heard that not just wait a week or two and cross then?