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Books / Will I ever see my stone golems in motion?
« on: March 09, 2004, 03:58:55 PM »
It looks like Peter Jackson's movie project-aptly titled "The Hobbit"- based on Tolkien's book of the same name(which I am reading right now btw)may have run into the murky waters of the swamps surrounding the dark forests of Mirkwood. I am personally of the opinion that lawyers and their law suits are just evil and this recent incident has reinforced those views. Oh when will I see my stone golems?

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Everything Else / Would we ever be able to leave this planet?
« on: December 16, 2003, 05:45:46 AM »
I would genuinely like to know what people think about the possibilitiy of intergalactic travel ever beoming a reality.
http://vikram-hans.blogspot.com

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Video Games / Finally a Space Sim
« on: December 11, 2003, 12:58:19 AM »
Yay jay- Finally a space sim for PC after such a long time. EGOSOFT is developing a space sim in which you fly around in Massive space ships either trading with other factions or fighting it out. I downloaded a non-playable demo of the game and found the graphics to be really delicious(drool X 1000). I just hope that these guys don't mess it up because Egosoft is the same comapny that had developed a similar space sim around three years ago. The game totally bombed off the shelf and got really lousy reviews from everyone. I had played it and found that it's biggest sore point was that it went overboard with the flying around in the space thing. Distances between key trading posts were excruciatingly long and the trading aspect of the game(which by the way was it's key aspect) wasn't properly fleshed out. The present title will hopefully take care of these grouches. From the demo that I have seen, I can honestly say that this game will have some of the biggest space objects in any space sim developed so far. You can take a look at the screen shots here:
http://www.geekspeak.netfirms.com/listx.html


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Video Games / Age Of Wonders2: Looking for a playmate
« on: December 05, 2003, 02:51:45 PM »
I have finally finished the single player campaign in AOW2. If anyone would like to join me in a play by mail game please e-mail me at [email protected]

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Movies and TV / Texas Chainsaw Massacre
« on: November 20, 2003, 08:22:26 AM »
I've been a huge fan of the original movie. Has anyone seen it's latest incarnation? Is it going to become the cult classic that it's predecessor was?

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Movies and TV / The Las Vegas Connection
« on: October 23, 2003, 06:38:33 AM »
What is the Las Vegas connection? Well it's a theory that is regularly put into practice by the producers of all the major TV serials. The theory states that if your program is becoming popular among the viewers or is loosing some of it's popularity, shoot an episode in Las Vegas and see those stats go through the roof. Almost every big budget serial shoots atleast one episode in Las Vegas. They start the episode with an ariel view of the Mega City with all it's lights, casinos and what have you. Most of the cast is present there even if there is no plot to wrap around the episode. Actually no plot is necessary. People will be so immersed in the sight and sounds of Vegas that they'll not even care about the plot. It's all about marketing baby. So next time you visit the Oasis of the West, you might get lucky and bump into Buffy or Angel.
Vikram

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Music / Online Music Market Gets Hot
« on: October 23, 2003, 06:37:09 AM »
iTunes for windows has finally been released by Apple. I subscribe to lockergnome newsletter. Toady's issue had a few reader reviews for the iTunes service. Apparently everyone seems to be satisfied. So what's the problem you ask? Well there is a tiny problem. Actually it's not so tiny and it's called The New and Improved(and legal)NAPSTER service. Napster has a couple of things going for it.
a) It has the largest collection of music anywhere
b) It has better deals on offer. They will sell individual songs for 99 cents each and albums for 9.95$. They also have monthly"Eat all you can"subscriptions for 9.95$.
Napster was purchased by Roxio Inc. after it had filed for bankruptcy. This is what Roxio's chief executive Chris Gorog had to say about the iTunes service-"If I were Apple, I would hate to compete with Napster. We have a larger catalogue of songs. Our service has more breadth. And there's no brand more powerful than ours in online music".
Other contenders in the market are Dell Inc., AOL Time Warner Inc.'s America Online, RealNetworks Inc.'s Rhapsody service, privately held companies like MusicMatch and BuyMusic.com. Even Amazon Inc. is planning a foray into the market.
Who's gonna snatch away the greater share of the pie? It's too early to comment on that yet. But as of now, if all you want is quality service, try iTunes.
Vikram

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