
thats really good
right people how do i start doing these things I don't have photoshop or anything - is there something cheap I can download or do I just have to keep on looking at yours??
:D
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right people how do i start doing these things I don't have photoshop or anything - is there something cheap I can download or do I just have to keep on looking at yours??
:D

hide behind that psuedonym. I'm actually a web snitch for the BSA, the RIAA and the MPAA.
I'm not some hippy Open Source advocate or Linux geek or anything like that. Honest. I'll bust your ass down, mister!
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I'm not some hippy Open Source advocate or Linux geek or anything like that. Honest. I'll bust your ass down, mister!

out of my profile then
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Get The GIMP. It is good.
If you're wondering what version to go for 1.2.x is stable and 1.3.x is a development version (probably loadsa bugs)
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If you're wondering what version to go for 1.2.x is stable and 1.3.x is a development version (probably loadsa bugs)

it keeps asking questions i dont understand and its hard
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I'm not a computery person and it uses long words - ill stick to watching for now:D
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Might even have something to show for it afterwards...
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I find I spend longer on stuff with it down to it's interface which leaves me with something I'm happier with

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Photoshop. Apparantly there is something called gimp out there for free. or of course you could just get a warez photoshop. (shock horror)
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you're the first person I've met whose warezed photoshop. We kinda have a rule around here that you have to save up *real* hard and but a copy to show those nice people at Adobe (forgetting their exorbitant prices and the Skylarov incident) how much we appreciate all their hard work.
Shame on you.
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Shame on you.

for a shareware/freeware gif animator and use MSPaint if you haven't got a better image program.
Althought I shouldn't mention it but (cough) try Kazza (cough)
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 12:48,
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Althought I shouldn't mention it but (cough) try Kazza (cough)

thanks everyone!!
I'll have a look and see what I can find - but then you'll have to put up with my rubbish piccies :D
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 12:49,
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I'll have a look and see what I can find - but then you'll have to put up with my rubbish piccies :D

most of them mine. LOL
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has started adopting romanian orphans three so far... i suppose everyone needs a hobby (and lunch)
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 12:51,
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mrs chapman could balance a drink on hers... 100% of fact!
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oh i get you now :p
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 12:57,
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alternatively, paint shop pro seems to get given away for free on magazine covers quite regularly. you might want to give that a shot!
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It has many of the less advanced components of Photoshop, but much cheaper and easier to learn.
Or get an old version of Photoshop second-hand, via ebay etc.
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 12:58,
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Or get an old version of Photoshop second-hand, via ebay etc.

it's easy to use once you've played with it for a while
+ it's cheaper than Adobe, not as computery and far less wanky
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+ it's cheaper than Adobe, not as computery and far less wanky

They brightened up a dull Sunday morning.
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my god, the strobe lighting in that film...
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 12:43,
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revelations.... was thinking hhmm was like my life flashing before my eyes! then i made mental note to get out more!
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hoopla!
my favourite so far! well after spiderman's lunchbox!
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 12:37,
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my favourite so far! well after spiderman's lunchbox!

just for the idea of Donald Pleasance calling Sean Connery a dumb fuck - woo!
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 12:43,
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since i have just joined i want to know if there seems to be something special about the words 'woo', 'yay' and 'hoopla' or do you just like saying them?
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 13:57,
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How long does this fucking cough last for????

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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 12:26,
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until your lungs reach escape velocity and FLY TO THE FUCKING MOON
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 12:27,
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"Droid 7655 do you receive?"
*psssttfztt zzzztt*
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 12:36,
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*psssttfztt zzzztt*

in case I catch it of course
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 12:37,
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Reference the post below with the Police Raid and Rossi and Parfitt (doing nothing. tsk!) How mad is that, the most we had at my school was PC Dunkley with his cornflakes in his beard and yellow stained shirt, telling us not to do drugs cos you would die*. Course things are different now. Kids nowadays probably make Crack Pipes from lego.
*Which incidently was a lie
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*Which incidently was a lie

you think you can fly and you jump off buildings and die
edit: birds!?!?! drugs, oh man i need some drugs
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 12:39,
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edit: birds!?!?! drugs, oh man i need some drugs

I don't quite understand but I do agree that you need some drugs!
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as in secondary schools? you sadistic brave brave woman
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if it's been done already......i'll delete.......

Hope it isn't an almost identical pic.
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 12:21,
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i think the b3ta part of my brain has fallen off. i used to have more ideas for pictures than i could keep up with. now even randimaginator doesn't inspire me!
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 12:27,
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a few months ago, the mere thought of a penguin or a small rodent would have me cranking open photoshop. now I am reluctantly more considered
I loved your bus stop
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 12:33,
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I loved your bus stop

but my conscience kicked in and stopped me
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 12:26,
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just like that rubbish fillum on telly last night with Dean "Superman" Caine running about shouting "JESUS CHRIST! FUCKING FUCK FUCK!"
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 12:17,
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I love all this animal+plant stuff, bloody wicked what. Would make a proper nice calendar. bye bye
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works in the "little room" for airport security
edit: apparently
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edit: apparently

by security at an airport before - to have my laptop dusted for explosives.
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 12:12,
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explosive can you fit inside a floppy disk drive? then again, you could probably pack some in the gaps between the keys
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and carefully scrape the phosphor heads off into a powder, and then open up a floppy disk, spread superglue over the disc surface and sprinkle the powder evenly over the surface. Wait for it to dry and then glue the disc back together. Guaranteed to screw over disk drives :)
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and the guy was wearing rubber gloves. but fortunately it wasn't a full cavity affair.
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i'm a dangerous guy wearing dangerous socks
a broken lunch box and a bruised up knee
that's what you get when you mess with me
huh!
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 12:29,
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a broken lunch box and a bruised up knee
that's what you get when you mess with me
huh!

A play wot I wrote has just been awarded funding and will now be at the Edinburgh Fringe 2004. I am happy. Therefore I made a flyer for it.

See my profile for more details if you can be arsed.
P.S. Anyone fancy making a poster and/or flyer for it? I would be very grateful. I pay with HP sauce.
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See my profile for more details if you can be arsed.
P.S. Anyone fancy making a poster and/or flyer for it? I would be very grateful. I pay with HP sauce.

go onstage and just make fart jokes.
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 12:05,
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It's not a deliberately provocative shitty student play. That title just made us spit our coffee out. In fact, no dictators get bummed at all during the play.
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 12:07,
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I'll write a 20 minute bumming scene and tack it on at the end or something. Sorted.
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 12:15,
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"hilarious" fuck ups
well done on the funding
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 12:16,
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well done on the funding

is that serious?
cos it`s class!
David Hasselhoff was in Perry Mason last night.. he rocks!
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 12:06,
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cos it`s class!
David Hasselhoff was in Perry Mason last night.. he rocks!

Yeah it's serious.
I might see if I can get a few free tickets and give them to the board if anyone's interested nearer to the time.
EDIT: He does rock. He bloody rocks!
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I might see if I can get a few free tickets and give them to the board if anyone's interested nearer to the time.
EDIT: He does rock. He bloody rocks!

btw to what extent (if any) has Hasselhof been 'shopped? That portion of the picture in particular causes me some worry...
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 12:49,
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was put that hat on his head and that chick on his shoulder. The rest is an actual publicity shot.
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 12:50,
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I was almost run over on that road, by a big black car with one of our betters in it.
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mind you anyones better than him for god's sake!
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many years ago. in windsor. fair play i say, if i was royal i'd run over commoners
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she was at badminton and was enthusiastically cheering on a rider "go on fucking get on" and the queen was behind her and said "ooh you are enjoying yourself aren't you"
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 12:05,
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has just greatly improved my respect for the Queen. Well done that monarch!
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she seems like a nice old dear. like a nan should be...
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 12:07,
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she has to be a strong as a very strong metal! hard as nails made of titanium! or um the stuff that wolverines talons are made of.... excuse me i ramble!
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 12:11,
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won`t hurry up and pop her clogs?
/rant rant rant
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/rant rant rant

most nans are living on 70 odd quid a week....
/rant rant rant
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/rant rant rant

just that she seems like a nice old dear
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 12:13,
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stick her in a council house in Manchester and see how nice she is!
:-p
"Philip - be a dear and pop to the corner shop for some Jaffa Cakes for one`s dessert"
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 12:15,
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:-p
"Philip - be a dear and pop to the corner shop for some Jaffa Cakes for one`s dessert"

potato is evidently good, parsnip's quite nice, but beetroot is 'orrible.
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 11:58,
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when Barry McGuigan was at his "peak"... he endorsed a range of obscure crisps, incuding "Barry`s Jabs" - nettle flavoured crisps
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 12:02,
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vegetable oil flavoured crisps are probably the easiest.
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 12:03,
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Coincidently, mixing a double whiskey in a small highball glass with some sparkling tescos mineral water makes the resulting drink taste identical to licking the back of an envelope. I call it Mark, after the name of out postie at the time.
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so slices of crunchy fried meat as ox intruiges me.
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 12:03,
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but crunchy... wait how do they get them crunchy. theyre all wet and icky
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 12:04,
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so when you tip the bag up.....bleargh
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 11:57,
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Your username made I laff!
Mornin all!
Didn't like the matrix 3 much, but I really like the music. Woo to those who put the score together. Very Carl Orff!
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 11:55,
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Mornin all!
Didn't like the matrix 3 much, but I really like the music. Woo to those who put the score together. Very Carl Orff!

when they covered them all in vermicelli
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it was never meant to be like the original.
they all rock very hard
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 11:59,
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they all rock very hard

most definitely. I don't mean to say it was dire, just that it was a little, er, unresolved at the end. And yes, astroturf and vermicelli were good bits. :D
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 12:01,
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by making up fictional films in my head.
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 12:02,
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it the words of the buddha, and later, brian blessed- 'when two people argue both are wrong'
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but how it ended. The methods by which neo did it and the cliffhanger at the end of the second were unresolved!
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 12:04,
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we'll have to leave this debate a while clearly, otherwise we'll give more than just the astroturf bit away
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 12:07,
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Done. I'd heard all the bad reviews before I went, and it thankfully didn't live down to my expectations. We can all have a big matrix debate later on :D
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when the water flies out in a sphere around them wen they hit the ground. looked just like Akira that did.
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and the fight on the celing, what the fuck?
the best bit is when all the sentinels are coming into the docks
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 12:19,
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the best bit is when all the sentinels are coming into the docks

I'd heard about the comparison with Aliens, and it was undeserved! That bit made the film. It was worth seeing it just for that!
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but i loved the huge suits they had.
I still think they shud remake all 3 films as anime. The Animatrix rocked.
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 12:26,
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I still think they shud remake all 3 films as anime. The Animatrix rocked.

It would kick ass! Who would you get to make it though?
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 12:30,
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then either Shinichiro Watanabe* or Mahiro Maeda*
Kid's story and The second renaissance were my faves
yes i did have to lookup spellings*
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 12:36,
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Kid's story and The second renaissance were my faves
yes i did have to lookup spellings*

I was thinking of perhaps Anno Hideaki and the Gainax to make it, but then i'm Evangelion biased :D
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to the Wachowski Brothers.
they can sort out a director, you know they will take any excuse to make a few more quid out of it.
have to see the animatrix and complete the game to get the whole picture?... money grabbers.
the graphics on the game were suprisingly shite considering the films aswell
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they can sort out a director, you know they will take any excuse to make a few more quid out of it.
have to see the animatrix and complete the game to get the whole picture?... money grabbers.
the graphics on the game were suprisingly shite considering the films aswell

on a flat, straight road. And flew 20 feet up in the air when you shot them. I didn't like the sniper bits and the protect your companion crap to. Didn't play all the way through because of that.
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 12:50,
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then gave up with Ghost because of the bit where you have to chase the plane, its fucking imposible
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 12:52,
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Just by driving as fast a I could and ignoring the arrow that told you where to go. I got to the power station as ghost, but couldn't get past the irritation snipe the snipers before they kill niobe. Screw niobe, she should look after herself the evil bint.
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The Matrix Online is coming out for PC
don't know how true it is though
edit: thematrixonline.warnerbros.com/index2.html
GTA online with bullet time from the sound of it. sweet...
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 13:03,
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don't know how true it is though
edit: thematrixonline.warnerbros.com/index2.html
GTA online with bullet time from the sound of it. sweet...

but no rage against the machine song at the end. What the fuck's up with that?
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 12:02,
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track at the end. Rage against the machine fit with the first as being a rebellion, this one was more apocalyptic, fight for survival stuff, where Carl Orff and similar works come into their own, and kick ass and chew bubblegum...
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and they are apparently enjoying it.

original story about reasonable policing www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/11/07/national/main582492.shtml
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 11:49,
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original story about reasonable policing www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/11/07/national/main582492.shtml

nice work on the colourmatchingage and relectionage that man!
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 11:51,
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. I have just procured a 21 inch monitor from work for my bedroom.. it rules.. though my bedroom now seems a little cramped... It's not interesting, but it is fact
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 11:53,
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Although my 19inch monitor weighs about 25 kilos and is a bitch to carry up more than 2 flights of stairs. I don't even want to think about how much a 21 inch weighs.
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But woosome none the less. I'm gonna rob a bank to buy a big flatscreen one day.
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 12:00,
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I wish i had a lunchbox like that. my mum neveer got me petit folou
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 11:55,
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I liked your paintmashed comp entries! you should hook up with Sunshine Elephant!
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morning all!
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This is because some of you did not pay Microsoft for some software.
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 11:33,
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explain how I forgot to go and stir my curry, resulting in a saucepan full of spicy carbon.
Arsebiscuits.
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 11:37,
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Arsebiscuits.

It's b3ta, ruiner of all meals I can be arsed to cook.
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 11:43,
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this all comes down to YOU you FREELOADING SCUM
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 11:37,
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I have not paid for a thing. I do not even own a computer. I break into peoples houses to post.
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 11:39,
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........................
/edit "some of us" ? don't you mean "most, if not all of us" ?
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/edit "some of us" ? don't you mean "most, if not all of us" ?

I've ever bought was Cinemania
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 11:41,
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i couldn't help it, it came with the pc
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so that's allowed :)
Come to think of it, I also own an old MS-DOS licence from when I bought the RealPC emulator years back. So that's 2 Microsoft programs I've paid for.
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 11:50,
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Come to think of it, I also own an old MS-DOS licence from when I bought the RealPC emulator years back. So that's 2 Microsoft programs I've paid for.

is surprisingly good, although it`s tricky to use if you`re used to Photoshop... I managed to wangle it plus a graphics tablet off Amazon for about 80 quid, so I was happy
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Sun 9 Nov 2003, 11:53,
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bought xp professional, in addition to the xp home my computer came installed with. This 'sucker' tattoo on my forehead is proving difficult to remove.
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