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Mind of UPSLynx Fer the week o’ Septembarrrr 13th

Bobby Miller September 19, 2009 3:08 PM ET in Tech

Ahoy landlubbers! This week we be ready ta throw Austrailia overboard as they be bannin’ Left 4 Dead 2 from their salty shores! But good news is afoot, our mateys from Telltale Games is givin’ away a pirate game of their own this day! Yarrr, fresh new graphics cards are in the works from those scurvy devils at ATI and Nvidia, what do we know about the new haarrrrrrrrrdware? Finally, I took a bit o’ time to talk with 1st mate Thrax about DirrrrrectX 11 and what the new tech means. So whadya watin’ for? Watch the show, or off to Davy Jones locker with ye!

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29 Comments:

  1. primesuspect
    The Icrontic Guy
    19 Sep '09, 3:15 pm

    They just keep gettin' better n' better, they do....

  2. Winfrey
    kaishakunin
    19 Sep '09, 3:25 pm

    I arrspecially enjoyed this one!

  3. jared
    Howdy Damnit
    19 Sep '09, 3:30 pm

    LOL Thrax looks like he should be commentating a NFL game with Al Micheals, wearing those huge ass head phones.

    Great episode tho. Moar guests!

  4. Snarkasm
    The Photographer.
    19 Sep '09, 3:37 pm

    THE RETURN OF THE HAT

  5. Lincoln
    Snapperhead
    19 Sep '09, 3:38 pm

    Daddy Australia gonna SPANK you.

  6. mirage
    Veteran Icrontian
    19 Sep '09, 3:40 pm

    Excellent job yet again !

  7. Lincoln
    Snapperhead
    19 Sep '09, 3:41 pm

    holy nine minutes batman. it's as if you don't truly believe I'm not industriously working every minute I'm not watching Mind. Great work, Bobby.

  8. DrLiam
    FoxtoN
    19 Sep '09, 4:59 pm

    Great interview, learned a lot about Dx11 and upcoming GPUs.

  9. Bobby1211
    iMap
    19 Sep '09, 5:08 pm

    Yarrr, 2 hooks up fer ye fellow Bobby.

    -Bobby

  10. Nemikan
    Chat with me!
    19 Sep '09, 6:40 pm

    Mind of UPSLynx is like SOON TO BE FAMOUS.

  11. Bobby Miller
    The Dean of Computer Graphics
    19 Sep '09, 8:42 pm
    Quoting Snarkasm

    THE RETURN OF THE HAT

    I frigging LOVE this hat.

  12. GnomeWizardd
    <3 IC
    19 Sep '09, 8:53 pm
    Quoting UPSLynx

    I frigging LOVE this hat.

    you sound like me and my Fl gator hat I just picked up, I love it with a passion ( its hard to find a Fl gator hat in Amish country )

  13. Grimnoc
    I don't need no stinkin avatar
    19 Sep '09, 9:04 pm

    Great job to both Lynx and Thrax.

    *Psss...I'm downloading Tales of Monkey Island: Episode One right now so thanks for the tip off.

  14. Gnome Queen
    Ms. D
    19 Sep '09, 9:55 pm

    Arr, me thinks that somebody needs a different one of thems new fangled "webcam" machines I be hearin' about.

    But good job mateys, this be good watchin' fer those empty nights out on the sea.

  15. Thrax
    Cad
    19 Sep '09, 11:02 pm

    Yeah, if Icrontic would like to fund the Microsoft Lifecam purchase, I'll be happy to improve said webcam.

  16. Gnome Queen
    Ms. D
    19 Sep '09, 11:11 pm

    Arr matey, just go plunder some more ships, n' paying for one of them newfangled movie cameras shouldn't be too hard.

  17. Komete
    DIY Haxx0r
    19 Sep '09, 11:39 pm

    Nice job UPSLynx and Thrax!

  18. Gnome Queen
    Ms. D
    19 Sep '09, 11:51 pm

    I will note, mateys, that the motion picture show did need more "arrs".

  19. Cliff_Forster
    Keepin it real
    20 Sep '09, 1:09 am

    I think Thrax would have benefited from some tessellation.

  20. Thrax
    Cad
    20 Sep '09, 5:26 am

    The sad thing is that the camera looks pretty damn great on my end, but something is definitely lost to compression in transmission. I'm serious, the only thing wrong with the picture pre-transmission is that it's 320x240. Everything else is great... Color, fluidity, etc.

  21. fatcat
    sasquatch wannabe
    20 Sep '09, 10:37 am

    Good work gentlemen

  22. Bobby Miller
    The Dean of Computer Graphics
    20 Sep '09, 12:59 pm
    Quoting Thrax

    the only thing wrong with the picture pre-transmission is that it's 320x240. Everything else is great... Color, fluidity, etc.

    That plays a big part, I have to upscale it to 640X480. The capture was done at the highest quality of compression available, which obviously does a bit of the work as well.

    Though the first to questions I upscaled a bit more yet in post. I was so concerned with recording logistics that I wasn't really looking at the framing of the shot, and there was WAY too much headroom in the first take. So I upscaled a little to I could pan down and try to create a better composition.

    GQ - Video was shot on Friday, which was pre pirate speak day. You can't be premature with these things, you know.

  23. Bobby Miller
    The Dean of Computer Graphics
    20 Sep '09, 1:00 pm

    crap! I just realized that Fatcat wasn't in this episode! I have failed!

  24. Idiot_Slayer
    BLARSA
    20 Sep '09, 1:28 pm

    Hell yeah Soldier of Fortune!
    God I loved that game.

  25. Gnome Queen
    Ms. D
    20 Sep '09, 3:03 pm
    Quoting UPSLynx

    GQ - Video was shot on Friday, which was pre pirate speak day. You can't be premature with these things, you know.

    Except that you guys re-shot it friday night, past midnight. We were all in IRC discussing it. YOU CANNOT FOOL ME WITH YOUR LACK OF PIRATENESS.

  26. Thrax
    Cad
    20 Sep '09, 3:08 pm

    We reshot 3 of the nine minutes. Go away, troll.

  27. Gnome Queen
    Ms. D
    20 Sep '09, 3:21 pm

    I am NOT trolling. (trolls, trolls)

  28. Bobby Miller
    The Dean of Computer Graphics
    20 Sep '09, 3:37 pm
    Quoting Idiot_Slayer

    Hell yeah Soldier of Fortune!
    God I loved that game.

    Glad someone appreciates it as much as I do!

    MAN I miss that game. I would love to see it rebirthed on current technology by RAVEN, not those chumps that made the abysmal SoFIII

  29. UPSWeezer
    Ninja Warrior
    20 Sep '09, 10:36 pm

    ROFL-ing over the demonstration of violent games. The shrug at the end was the icing on the cake. LOL!

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