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Mind of UPSLynx Fer the week o’ Septembarrrr 13th

Mind of UPSLynx Fer the week o’ Septembarrrr 13th

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!

Comments

  1. primesuspect
    primesuspect They just keep gettin' better n' better, they do....
  2. Winfrey
    Winfrey I arrspecially enjoyed this one!
  3. jared
    jared 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
    Snarkasm THE RETURN OF THE HAT
  5. Linc
    Linc Daddy Australia gonna SPANK you.
  6. mirage
    mirage Excellent job yet again !
  7. Linc
    Linc 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. :D Great work, Bobby.
  8. DrLiam
    DrLiam Great interview, learned a lot about Dx11 and upcoming GPUs.
  9. BobbyDigi
    BobbyDigi Yarrr, 2 hooks up fer ye fellow Bobby.

    -Bobby
  10. Nemikan
    Nemikan Mind of UPSLynx is like SOON TO BE FAMOUS.
  11. UPSLynx
    UPSLynx
    Snarkasm wrote:
    THE RETURN OF THE HAT


    I frigging LOVE this hat.
  12. GnomeWizardd
    GnomeWizardd
    UPSLynx wrote:
    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
    Grimnoc 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. GnomeQueen
    GnomeQueen 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
    Thrax Yeah, if Icrontic would like to fund the Microsoft Lifecam purchase, I'll be happy to improve said webcam.
  16. GnomeQueen
    GnomeQueen Arr matey, just go plunder some more ships, n' paying for one of them newfangled movie cameras shouldn't be too hard.
  17. Komete
    Komete Nice job UPSLynx and Thrax!
  18. GnomeQueen
    GnomeQueen I will note, mateys, that the motion picture show did need more "arrs".
  19. Cliff_Forster
    Cliff_Forster I think Thrax would have benefited from some tessellation.
  20. Thrax
    Thrax The sad thing is that the camera looks pretty damn great on my end, but something is <i>definitely</i> 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
    fatcat Good work gentlemen :thumbsup:
  22. UPSLynx
    UPSLynx
    Thrax wrote:
    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. UPSLynx
    UPSLynx crap! I just realized that Fatcat wasn't in this episode! I have failed!
  24. Idiot_Slayer
    Idiot_Slayer Hell yeah Soldier of Fortune!
    God I loved that game.
  25. GnomeQueen
    GnomeQueen
    UPSLynx wrote:

    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
    Thrax We reshot 3 of the nine minutes. Go away, troll.
  27. GnomeQueen
    GnomeQueen I am NOT trolling. (trolls, trolls)
  28. UPSLynx
    UPSLynx
    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
    UPSWeezer ROFL-ing over the demonstration of violent games. The shrug at the end was the icing on the cake. LOL!

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