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Yup, I surely can. Pushing is my kinda business; ask around .

Heh yeah, definitely the most annoying SP glitch to stunters. I've known my fair share of supercop justice myself and it pisses me off every single time . They'll mostly just whoosh at my bike and knock me off it, but lol @ this - never seen one jump like that before. Dunno how they coulda missed such a bug too; or maybe they just left it in there to torment us...

We know where it is (building north of the offices); the point is how you got there. BTW I'd like to take this opportunity to protest to the fact that for some reason (unimaginable to me) the thread "Can you..." got stickied yesterday while a topic such as this, a product of months of collective work and arguably ten times as much a classic as "Can you..." can ever become, continues to go as it is. I for one would be curious to find out the reasoning that lead to this decision, assuming impartiality is always a driving force behind such calls. Thanks.

Heh, that's just like the Emu scene over @ Emutalk.net sinkin their teeth into some new emu SW . Gotta say, it looks impressive enough even in its alpha stage of development! Now if only as much progress were made for the GameCube... Last time I remember seeein so many pics in a single thread over there was a few years back in the "known GFX issues" for Project64 (which I think is kinda discontinued now ). Anyway, thx for the newsflash Posty and a nice reason for me to revisit old places n' forums. Didn't know you posted there either .

Try going to your profile, change your name to something without any special characters (like plain "KCF BaTmAn") and save it. That might let you alter your avvie. BTW it's "per se", not persay...

Hello? Didn't I just say I've had it happen three times alone to me in the past months plus once more with a car? This really isn't as rare as you think it is. Besides, even if it were, I wouldn't call it the coolest thing ever either. And Ramon, if you did most of the work on OMG2, why does it have your bro's name as the stunter and editor? Brotherly courtesy ? BTW hey netrex, haven't seen much of you lately. Workin on anything these days?

Lol, well I wouldn't say it's any obsession of mine either so I don't watch it every day, but yeah Jordan did a pretty decent job stichin those stunts together. Still, there are (or have been) a few good vids I've kept watching again and again at times. A list of them would include: - Daniel's (Ramon's bro I think) "Ohw my God 2" - really like that Bodenstandig 8bit tune and the action's a good match for it too. - Pyro's ampt audition vid, "Original Prankster" and - Barney's audition for ampt as well, "Spaz". Both short but dead serious. - No Comment. Seek to 1:10 and rejoice . - Swamp & Ormiss' "Vice Extreme" - older vid, but something about it kept me watchin it almost daily for 15-20 days. Nice speed @ that vid. - Metus - Plain gosu + Leaf Links wooden bridge masters (no1's done a better stunt there so far) - LBtrw's Stunt Mania v.4 (probably a classic by now) - I dare - Think it was the first vid I ever d/l-ed (out of curiosity probly for that odd notion called "VC stuntin"...) and I loved t3h LP soundtrack. Edit: Umm, why the hell did I type all that up again? Meh anyway, go look for those vids n' find out kids . Like I said, there's more, but those just come to mind right now.

Quite so. Once you'd intercept the inbound search (an MTA function or something of that sort probably), you could easily feed it any false data you'd want, be it file hashes, locations, attributes or whatever. It may not be easy hacking, but it'd still be just a matter of hacking and in the end you'd simply have a redundant system consumin BW and delayin every1's admittance to the serv, including cheaters'. As I've said a million times before, true cheat prevention lies in the human factor, i.e. proper admining and coop from the players.

LMAO. C'mon Bump, tell us how many times you've had chix hit on you after you told them you're an MTA dev . BTW I'm not askin eAi this, cause he'll just throw me a short reply with his name written in the end again. Say, you should change that to "I'm eAi bitch!" Fun stuff (hopefully?) aside, I'd have to say it's amazing how much MTA's popularity has grown since the beginning of this year alone. Like I was following a torrent link to some french "abandonware" site yesterday and along with everythign else, I found an MTA section of all things! Seems those guys have their own gang, maybe a serv as well and have made a couple o' vids too. FKS or something I think they're called. Funky if ya ask me...

Lol @ Decan's ASR. That's some pretty old shit Ransom, doubt there'll be many who'll remember what's in it anymore (well except for me of course ). I figure he's probly thinkin of d8cam's (aka Jordan Liles) Vice City Miss This.

How exactly...question mark

An All-Seeing Contact Lens?

Let me be the first to tell you: Mmmmkay, wtf man? I've had that happen to me like 3 times over the last two months and I've been stunting much less than before. Even kept a rep of a cool stunt I did with a cheetah where this happens in the end. You seriously sayin you'd never seen this before? Just try to bail from any vehicle about half a sec before it blows up and you should get it once or twice every 10 times. Yet another parade I'm rainin' down on ... Go me!

Blimey Hadn't realized MTA contributed to GFX lag enough to make a difference on top of everything else (CPU, GPU and AGP multiplier, RAM speed and OS memory state, game settings, etc). Anyway, with good enough results you just miiiiiight get that grant to keep your research going for another 5 years Dr. IJs. I'm only kidding folks . Good luck with your next version.

Cool. Will you be handing out free BB connections with every installer then?

There's no point in playing a game you can't lose. If you can't lose, you can't win...

How the fu,ck should we know? Do we look like the yellow pages to you?

Well, at least now you got nothing to fret about ppl. There is no big official serv anymore

You're missing the point NosGoth...

No "Programs Used" part in your credits section, so I'm forced to ask. Which vid editing program did you use and what's the name of the effect you used at 4:28?

And there I was thinking that: How the story changes...

It's been said that quoting yourself is one of the early symptoms of megalomania, but what the hell...

Other MP games that aren't mods in beta stage you mean.

Sorry for the repeated delays; things were constantly keeping me busy lately. Here's what my first comments and the rest of the stuff I wanted to say now shaped into in the end. Enjoy the double pager! **************************************************************** Lol yeah it was a pretty orsm vid, wasn' it ? Okay first off, this is really good. It rightly stands out as a very serious production and I'm glad you guys took the time to make it that way. Also glad to see that quality videos are still coming out despite the lately much recited clichees that "everything's been done by now" and the like. Hopefully the community can get the message that there's still plenty of things to do - both completely new and improvements over older ones - before we call VC stuntin dead and plant it in its grave; trust me, that time will come on its own and probly won't be announced by anyone. K, nuff babblin. On to the show: General issues / Story: Story wasn't the most carefully thought out plot of all time, but since it was only meant to be a side dish to the action, I ate it up pleasantly; loved the spooky mood of your intro too. Vid had a funny angle to it also, with stuff like Big Momma's huge tits, the breaking vase audio enhanced catastrophe, Rosenberg playing Morpheus (why not Lance? he'd fit the part better ) and other such stuff. In the end I think it gave it lighter tone and kept it more enjoyable. Also outro worked just fine for me; Jordan might be exaggerating a bit there... Appearance / Overall look: Well, it wasn't the most clear and crisp show of all time, but @ 700kbps 360x288 I wouldn't demand perfection. I suppose you coulda bumped the reso up to 640x480 at some bitrate that wouldn't throw the filesize way over 70-80 megs in total (something around 1000-1200kbps?) and get a kind of better result from that, but I can also see why you'd want to try n' keep it smaller given that it's 12 mins long (a high enough bitrate woulda send it well past the 100MB limit, but I still think there was a middle road... meh anyway). Sound was cool and clear @ 64kbps and keep in mind for the future that as long as you keep it below 192 (128 is ideal IMO), it'll never bloat your vid up significantly. Ummm, yeah so go for 128 next time . Edit: Since we're into nitpicking anyway, I just forgot to say I agree on the slight overusage of transitions. Quite a few of them not to say the least, but definitely not a major issue. Just a note for next time. Music: Again, liked the intro, being the X-Files fan that I am/was. That remix I think is by DJ Dado back from the days of 1995, so you might want to look into that in your sound credits (you credit it to enya and I don't even know who that is). Rest of the audio was decent as well. A slight prob in the quality of the 4th song (sounded like 48Kbps or something), but nothing beyond that. On what Jordan said, personally I don't mind the repeated use of famous scores too much, from the Matrix or anywhere else, when there's a point in putting them in (e.g. helps tell the story, fits the mood, etc) and it's good music. As long as the above conditions are met, I'll respect any vid makers' decisions on the sound department and once again, I was cool with yours. Overall I gotta say though, I liked your song choises in "No Comment" much better; you can't hope to beat Gorillaz and Fatboy Slim with Placebo, wtf?!?! Anyway, it's the stunts that count, so let's talk about those a bit. First, a slightly more general observation. Seeing the various vids from different times and crews, you can't really help not notice how the personality of some productions completely varies from others' with regard to content and stunt selection. For instance in IWTB you mainly focused on car bumps, roof climbs and reeches and had very few grinds, explosion stunts, corkscrews, or walltaps, whereas in other vids one can see the clip choises are quite different and other things were given more weight to (like how lately Barney's work keeps havin more and more grinds and not much of anything else, you know?). Naturally different stunt kinds appeal to different ppl and they'll rate them accordingly, so I guess where I'm getting at is, putting all your eggs in one basker (or few) will affect the viewers' judgement equally and you risk having a wider spectrum of them left half-pleased. Personally I like climbs and reeches myself (car bumps not that much), so I found most of the caps really good and interesting, but others might not. On the other hand, it's your vid, so it's really your call what you decide to go with or not in the end. It's just that more ppl will like a vid with a wider variety better. Hope you see my point here. More about IWTB now, I was glad to see there were very few filler stunts in it; always a telltale sign that ppl are takin things seriously. I don't think many can deny you had some awesome caps in there - whether they're into that kinda stunts or not - and the quality was kept pretty high all through it. In fact, at some point I wrote down a couple of notes to keep track of what I wanted to see again and after a while, it sorta turned into my top 10 stunts list. Then I figured "since I already went there, why not post it n' see what others think themselves?". So I did. Mind you, that doesn't mean the rest of the stuff isn't as good or anything, it's just that those 10 I found to be more to my taste than any other. 1) 10:34 - triple spin car bump launch over the airport billboards 2) 2:56 - 6 spin car bump to DTPD roof 3) 6:35 - mud track bump on the Rhino 4) 7:30 - palm launch SE of VPPD (amazing if it had made it to the other roof) 5) 9:51 - SS stairs 2000+ car bump spin 6) 0:57 - Hyman waters jump 2+2 spins 7) 7:45 - PCJ high car bump behind the airport ads fence 8.) 3:24 - SS car bump 4 spin roof climb 9) 4:11 - VCN pushride 10) 3:07 - 360 long launch @ SVP (SE of malibu) Oh, props on the triple stunt combo too (8:30 - 9:00). Combos are the kind of stunting I'd surely like to see more of in future productions, although they are a bit hard to get while keeping all the stunts interesting enough at the same time. Edit: There's a nice double between 10:12 and 10:22 as well. On a more technical note, I don't see what Jordan meant by "the 7:08 and 8:00 stunts stand out" (don't think there's any clip starting @ those times either ), but I have to say the 7:13 one somewhat illustrates what I was suggesting in some other thread months back about using cool cinematics and 2nd shots of the same stunt you might have (i.e. using them during the clip and not afterwards, where you end up showing it twice, which is lame). Hope ppl noticed . Other times of course you just chose to simply replay the stunt in slomo, which doesn't really help bring it out IMO. When ppl see a really cool stunt, they'll remember and/or replay it again, so no need to bother doing it yourself and waste your vid's time on that, plus generally slomo is tiresome (I musta counted 3-4 instances of it in IWTB I think). Try to leave those out to make things faster and more relaxing for your viewers. BTW NosGoth, IMO you shouldn't rush to dismiss what Jordan has to say right off the bat (if you weren't kiddin about that I mean). You know how tended his vids usually are and the level of quality he tries to maintain in them; like it or not, his work is very professional and usually stands out among everything else on the scene. If you want to be honest, you gotta give him that, so when he talks I'd say he deserves at least the benefit of the doubt. Of course I could be wrong, but that's what I think. To finish this off, I'd just want to remind you that in time and after everything's been said and all the hype's settled down, what really comes to count, what will really separate famous from infamous is a vid's replay value and its overall contribution to the community. For what my opinion's worth, I think IWTB is something you can easily watch again even months from now and still enjoy it. Hell, it may even have revived the interest (and competition) in many among the ranks of VC stunters out there and that's something always vital to keeping the scene alive. K, that's all. Hope I've been more helpful than annoying .

You asked if we could do it. Now whether that was the way you did it or not has little to do with the fact that that's one way to get a hummer in the airport terminal. If you didn't use any glitches at all and just drove the fokn thing in there through the keyhole, even better for you; we can call you the Hummer Houdini from now on if you want...