Did you know that not only was that comic an inspiration for Blade Runner, but if you look here:

http://www.ultrawet.net/10cent/scan/moebius/ltm/ultra-moebius-ltm-23.htm

You'lll see an Imperial Probe Droid, before there was such a thing =D 

I knew you'd chime in when I mentioned Moebius :)

The comic was written by Dan O'Bannon, who wrote Alien, which was directed by Ridley Scott, who directed Blade Runner. So it almost seems like Scott was influenced directly by talking to O'Bannon rather than just picking up the comic book in a store. 

you used "task" as a verb? Please make it your primary action item to wash your mouth out with soap. 

funky. Thanks for the link. 

Actually, Ridley Scott was/is a big Moebius fan -- if you've ever seen any of the storyboard art he did for Alien, you'd see the influence immediately. And don't forget that Moebius was one of the concept artists for the film, as well. 

Case in point, a "ridleygram" from Blade Runner:

http://media.bladezone.com/contents/film/production/Linda-DeScenna/ridleygram01.jpg

Compare to The Long Tomorrow ;D 

make me cry with all this talk of Moebius. I miss my huge collection of Heavy Metal magazines from the 1980's (looking back, sometimes me mums tolerance amazes me)where a lot of the European strips would get reprinted. Any fans of Druillet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Druillet amongst the func_? 

What did you do with your HM collection, you bastard? I've got a few, but not nearly enough of them. My current dream is that they'll eventually release so many years of back issues on DVD (oh yeah, SO see that happening).

Anyways, Druillet does rock (got several installments of his Lone Sloane: Delirius and Gail in some of my HMs, but I've nver been as big a fan of him as Monsieur Giraud. Out of the Euro guys I also love Enki Bilal (The Immortal's Fete, Exterminator 17), Gaetano/Tanino Liberatore (RanXeroX) and Milo Manara (The Ape and the Giuseppe Bergman stories). 

What did you do with your HM collection, you bastard?

I went through a serious phase in the 90's. Graduated in PolySci instead of Art, worked for a few years as a paralegal for a firm whose only real client was R J Reynolds, got married for a time, somewhere in all that nonsense my Heavy Metal Mags, comic books, roll playing games, and some of my guitars dissapeared.

(It was when the Ex dragged me to see Phantom of the Opera and the two lobes of my brain tried to twist in a fatal knot to relieve the sheer boredom that I awoke from the nightmare.) 

Well, at least you eventually snapped out of it. Good to have you back amongst the bohemians =D 

:) 

does anyone have a contact email adress of bengt jardrup (bjp)? i'd like to ask him some questions about his vis tool... thx 

efdat see in people... the find aguire there is email on is profile 

I have like 5 opti drives 3 of them are working perfectly, but only one is currenty plugged cause that enough (less power consumption too) 

Like Trinca said; look in People link above, you'll find my email there. 

a new game by the guy who made the wonderful Within A Deep Forest.
http://knytt.ni2.se/ 

Spirit_ of course if free :) nobody is crazy enought to buy this crap :p 

"Art of Dying " project has been moved from q1 to doom3. 

http://www.strategyinformer.com/pc/unrealtournament2007/screenshots.html#latest 

It's another UT... with guys in bulky suits and big guns... anything else? *zZzz* 

aguirRe: thanks for the quick answer, although i've been crying all day because of it... :)
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now i've got another question: which q1 engines support nehahra's alpha val (or have something equal to it)? i'm hungry for using transparancy on objects. 

AFAIK, aguirRe's engines and FitzQuake support alpha features, but I guess many other engines have this function 

I'd say pretty much all TomazQuake-based engines (at least TomazQuake and Telejano). Q2K4 probably too (that engine ROCKS!). aguirRe's glnehahra. Darkplaces I am sure. I could do some tests later today if you want (just with a map with a brush that has alpha) as I have so many engines installed. =) 

Looks very similar to gears of war in the art department, I swear some of the level assets are ripped straight from Gears!

Still, those war of the worlds style walkers look amazing, as does everything else...

Still, I much preferred the pacing and speed of the original UT rather than the turbo charged craziness that is ut2003/4. Unfortunately it looks like Epic is staying with the nutty speed for this incarnation, DOH.

Who am I kidding, I'll buy it anyway 

you aint the only one. The other thing that annoyed me about the later UT's was the overcluttered levels.