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Yeah the last boss/stage is so old school. Gives an awesome sense of accomplishment when you beat it though.

Clipart Cat to the rescue!

I did like the clipart cat, was a nice touch. For revenge I prefer something that fits the crime.

That's a huge [bleep]ing fence Jaerk.

I'm speechless. Nice work Wongtong. :lol:

idk, use your imagination. :lol:

Trine Review: Trine is really one of those rare gems in the gaming world that is easy to miss. In fact I my self had heard almost nothing about the game until reading a raving review about it. Curious, I decided to give the game a try myself. Trine follows around the story of a wizard, a thief and a warrior. Long story short they get their souls bound together by a magical artifact and need to seek a way to get unbound and destroy the evil that has plagued the land. The story has a very laid back, folk like RPG storyline which is narrated to you during loading scenes. The game can be classified as a 2D Platformer/Puzzle/Platformer game, where most of the game is focused around physics based puzzles. Because the three characters souls are bound together it allows you to switch between them with the touch of a button, opening up some excellent opportunities for creative problem solving. Each character has their own unique set of abilities. The Wizard is very poor in combat (he actually has no attacks himself) but makes up for it by being able to levitate items, summon boxes and bridges and eventually summon flying platforms. The thief, on the other hand, is a nimble character who uses a bow. You also get a grappling hook which allows you to hook onto wooden objects giving you the opportunity for some cool tricks (such as swinging, building up momentum and jumping to the ledge you were swinging from). I did feel that at times the grappling hook felt more like I was fighting it than with it, mostly due to it's kind of random nature at times on what it decides to latch onto (which is usually the closest wooden object). Still this really only came into a problem by the last stage, and even then you can learn how to deal with it correctly. The thief also gets some nifty fire arrows, which allows you to break (breakable) objects and light unlit torches. Finally you have the warrior, who is the main fighter of the three. Chances are you will use him in combat most of the time due to his fast attack and ability to block. He can actually also throw heavy objects as well as later on wield a sledgehammer, allowing you to break stone walls. The games combat, especially for a puzzle game, is well thought out and fun. Even though you never fight many varying types of mobs (get ready for some skeleton bashing) the skeletons come in a number of flavors, from regular run-of-the-mill skeletons with swords to archer skeletons, skeletons who breathe fire and skeletons with shields. There are also slightly larger mini-boss type enemies that show up now and then as well. Part of the reason why combat works so well is that both the archers bow and the Warriors shield can be directed through the use of either the mouse or right analog stick. This gives you some great aiming control, and actually allows you to control the tension of the bow (allowing you to pull off trick shots, like shooting an arrow over a wall). It works very naturally and makes the combat a lot of fun. Of course the games combat is really only a small part of the game as most of the game focuses around these physics based puzzles I've talked about. The nice thing about trine's puzzles is that often enough they are designed so that there is multiple ways to finish it. One nice example in my mind is a puzzle where a treasure chest is way up in a ledge that I can not get to. There is a large, swinging log that you can stand on and the treasure chest is sort of in a little cove. You can't grappling hook up there due to no wood. The way I figured it out was to actually stack 4 boxes (max boxes a wizard can summon at once) all on top of each other and then run off of the log onto the boxes and up to the treasure. Of course I was later informed that if you hit the log with the warriors hammer it would jettison up near that ledge, allowing you to just jump from the log to the treasure. Examples like this are what makes the game such a blast to play, because it really rewards you for thinking outside of the box. I should also mention that the game is incredible looking. The 2D perspective really allowed the developers to create an awesome sense of depth in the world, and the game has such a great fantasy feeling to it that you can't help but get immersed in the game. Trine also has a wonderfully composed music selection which only helps to immerse you. Often times I found myself just in amazement of the games world and how it looked. It really is impressive on how much care and thought went into Trine, and it also is something else to think that a 2D perspective game would look this great. Trine really is one of those gems that I'm afraid people are going to miss, or skip over. It really is not often that a great 2D game comes out, and trine is easily one of the best I have played in years. The puzzles are well thought out, the game looks beautiful and the story is a simple and elegant one that all aims to immerse you in it's world. The game has around 8 hours worth of gameplay from the single player, and more if you play on the unlocked difficulty selection (and the game also gives you the option of replaying certain levels). Trine is available on PC (through steam) for $30 and will be available on PSN near the end of July for $20. A port for XBLA is also in the works. Score: 5/5

For retrieveing a ball that's rightfully hers? And that is being held hostage? Dizzle is a girl? D: yup. And I lol'd at the idea of some ball all tied up in an interrogation room.

I might be able to make it a bit smaller. Part of it being that big atm is just so that it's the first thing that draws focus to the users eyes. I could probably make it a little smaller, and it certainly will be smaller on the more content specific pages.

Invent a clever and complex lever and pulley system to grab the ball while in the comfort of your own yard.

Amon Amarth is awesome. :P Cool. Like I said I don't listen to much black metal, I'd like to think the black metal I do listen to is good though. :D

Yeah talk to your boss. I'm sure they will understand, especially if you have been there for a while.

EDIT3: Version 4 is up Not a big change, just messing around with the links a bit after some advice from Errdoth. Don't worry about the rest of it not really be changed, I'm taking your ideas into consideration (like moving around the logo). :) --------- EDIT2: Version 3 is up. [hide=][/hide] I'm starting some different style options. I think the character (which is available from the Aion fansite kit, so totally legal to use) helps balance the site with the ad on the left (no doubt the ad is probably going to be pretty bright and flashy). I probably should try and get him to work with the layout better, going to try and think how to do that. Also testing out some stuff with the top box, I kind of like what I'm going for right now. ------------ EDIT1: Version 2 is up. [hide=][/hide] ------------------ So I've been chosen to be a part of the team for Onlineaion, which is aiming to be an Aion Online fansite. They're planning on hopefully delivering a database, quest guides, a forums, a user gallery (can upload your own screenshots, fanart and such) and a news site/blog. As you can see on the site it certainly needs to be reimaged to something new, and that is my job. I'm actually not getting paid much to do this site, but it is technically my first comissioned site -- even though I am going to be a part of the team, and eventually I will hopefully start to see some revenue stream from the site (once we can cover the costs of it on its own). For now I'm going to be getting a Copy of Aion for myself. :) [hide=][/hide] Right now this is purely layout. I've made no real attempt to stylize everything, only kind of throw out basic colors and ideas. Obviously the logo is unfinished (It will probably more match the AION text when I'm done) and the text is real rough, ect. Still I'm wondering what you guy's think of the layout. If you were a fan of the game looking for information (like hmm, I need to finish this hard quest... or I need to find out a certain item [Which reminds me I need to have a spot on there for items]) would you feel you could find it efficiently? Obviously this is only the opening page. For the actual database idk what I'll do yet, but I'll probably do something like shrink the search page and such and and have the results under it. Likewise for guides I could probably do the same, just so all of that is in focus instead of the search bar/links. I will need to have a space for adverts as well, I'm wondering where I could put them (probably needs to be on the sides/top). So just looking for some basic layout ideas, don't worry too much on the more polishing side -- I'll get on that.

If you haven't you totally should take Adio's advice. It's one of my favorite death metal albums. :P

viewtopic.php?f=77&t=802079 My list is up. Who all has gone now? Trying to figure out who to pick next.

Man, I never realized how difficult it would be to have to make a list of all of my favorite albums. Still I think this is a diverse enough list, I tried getting albums from a lot of different kind of bands. I also realize that probably a number of these albums also exist on other people's list, but that only goes to show how much you guy's on TIF have influenced my musical tastes these past few years. :) 1. Jesu's Silver (EP) Jesu's Silver EP is probably not a suprise to most of you here. To me silver is the perfect album to listen to if you're down. It's depressing, the lyrics are depressing and the slow tempo certainly doesn't help. However despite all of this I feel like there is always that small glimmer of hope in the songs. Even though this is an EP it deserves to stand among full length albums. An easy choice for #1. I think that part of the reason why I hold Silver to such a high regard though is that it did help me through some difficult times. It's musically very well done, but to me it does feel like something more. 2. Angizia's Das Schachspiel des Trommelbuben Zacharias This is my favorite Angiza album. Describing Angizia is a somewhat difficult task, but I think it can best be summed up from what I read in a review once: "Imagine yourself in inter-war Germany. Everything is unstable. The country is on the verge of political and financial crisis. People are desperate. It is the Dark Age of modern society. A period of moral decline. Now, imagine getting lost in Berlin's allies at a cold autumn night. Mist surrounds you. You have nowhere to go. Suddenly, you notice an old, low, crippled building on your left. It has its lights on. Smoke gets out of the windows. You hear people laughing. You decide to enter the building in hope of finding someone to help you finding your way home. When entering the building you realise that it is a cabaret. A grand piano is set in the stage. Suddenly, the lights go off and you hear the soothing sound of the grand piano. That's the atmosphere that Angizia convey to you in this recording." It completely sums up the atmosphere of Angizia. It's incredibly fun music to listen to yet it still has a strange feeling and atmosphere to it, like what is described above. 3+4. Bathory's Nordland I + II I know, it's two albums -- and it is rightfully so taking up two spots. Bathory's Nordland is an example of what viking metal should be - epic. I don't know if I can really try and explain it any more than that, it's "epic". While the word rightfully so is overused I find that it describes bathory's Nordland easily. It was a close one between these and Hammerheart, but in the end I found that I enjoyed Nordland I + II much more. 5. Black Sabbath's Black Sabbath It's an easy pick, sure. However you can't help but get chills down your spine during their title song -- "Oh no, no, please God help me!". There isn't much that can be said for the album that started a genre, and I don't think I can explain it. 6. Zuriaake's Afterimages of Autumn Zuriaake's album starts off real peaceful. In fact even though most of the album is very harsh it never feels angry, if that makes any sense at all. It's a wonderful mix of Black Metal and ambient sounds, certainly something I think every black metal fan should listen to. Also it has an amazing cover art. 7. Primordial's To the Nameless Dead This album is relentless. Primordial doesn't bother with "slow passages" or "gay moments" and instead opts for a relentless assault. Somehow through all of this album it never gets boring. It's as if the album takes off running and keeps on managing to build speed throughout the entire process - geting more and more intense as it goes along. The vocals are very crisp and clean but still maintain that aura of intensity that the rest of the music holds. A brilliant album. 8. Maudlin of the Well's Bath I'll be honest and say I haven't listened to much of Maudlin's discography, however this album is excelent. The lyrics are deep and the non metal parts are excelent. I have to somewhat agree with SilverSword's earlier post of this album in which the metal parts are not the best, however I probably don't mind them as much as he does. It's a very artistic album still, a great listen. 9. Alamaailman Vasrat's Kaarmelautakunta This is a relatively new album I've listened to, but it's easily one of my favorites now. The instrumental choices they make are very unique (A Cello and a soprano sax, for example, you hear a lot) and the music is a lot of fun. It's almost as if someone decided to put some sort of polka beat to a metal song, certainly worth a listen. 10. Mono's One Step More and You Die This is another new album I started listening to a while ago. It's an incredibly calm and relaxing album, perfect for just drifting away and thinking. 11. Summoning's Stronghold My favorite Summoning album. It's a great blend of some of their earlier, more black metal albums, and their later albums such as Oath Bound. Every song just drips with atmosphere. Even if you are not a fan of black metal I would recommend this album, the melody's are hauntingly beautiful in it. 12. Aphex Twin's Come to Daddy It was difficult picking an album from them that was my favorite, and it came down to this and his Selected Ambient Works. In the end though, despite the shorter run time, I found this album to be a lot more enjoyable to listen to. Come to Daddy is a downright creepy song, and Flim is such a carefree contrast to it. 13. Blind Guardian's Live Probably my favorite live album, the musicianship Blind Guardian shows here is excelent. The crowd is wonderful (especially on songs such as Bright Eyes and The Bard's Song) and Hanshi (their vocalist) is crazy energetic. I also should mention that this album has pretty much all of Blind Guardian's best songs, and between songs such as Nightfall, Harvest of Sorrow, Bright eyes, The Bard's song and Lord of the rings there is a lot to enjoy here. 14+15. Helloween's Keeper of the Seven Keys parts I + II This is a surprisingly solid power metal album from Helloween. Of course it is best if you don't take them seriously, and if you don't you're in for a really fun ride. Easily Helloween's best album(s), and very much worth the two spots it holds. 16. Infected Mushroom's Merlin Not quite sure what to say about this album. It's my favorite album from Infected Mushroom with some great upbeat songs. There isn't too much to say. 17. Less Than Jake's Anthem I'm sure this looks odd here, but believe me -- it fits in. Anthem is actually probably one of the first albums on this list I listened to, and even after all these years I still love it. I'm sure there is better ska out there, I'm sure there are even better Less than Jake albums. However this one is still a favorite of mine, and in all honesty is one of the only ska albums I really own. 18. Therion's A'arab Zaraq Lucid Dreaming This is one of my favorite Therion albums, even though it is close between this and their early Death Metal album, Beyond Sanctorum. A'arab keeps the darker feel that the early Therion albums hold while mixing in their symphonic elements that they are known for. A'arab has a lot of memorable songs such as In Remembrance. Just a great album and a great mixing of styles. 19. Thin Lizzy's Live and Dangerous Another live album, but this is Thin Lizzy at their peak and is them performing all of their best songs. The band, the crowd and the atmosphere is very energetic and a lot of the songs played sound better than their studio counterparts. I realize that this album was also on Azvareth's list, but it deserves to be put on somewhere again. 20. NoFX's The Decline Maybe it's cheating using an EP that consists of only 1 song. Still I feel that NoFX's The Decline is one of the best punk songs ever written, and certainly is worthy of an album by its self. Gone is NoFX's usual pop punk nature, The Decline is a great look at our culture. Plus the bass in this song is incredible, and it's easily one of the catchiest punk songs I have listened to. Nothing much better than blaring this in the car singing along. 21. Megadeth's The World Needs A Hero I probably could have chosen any of Megadeth's albums from their early/mid career as there are qualities from all of them that I love, but to keep it fresh I've decided to choose "The World Needs A Hero" for this list. This has some great, perhaps lesser known, megadeth songs on it. Mustaines normal anger shows well on this album, especially with songs such as "1000 Times Goodbye". It's hard to say if it is the best Megadeth album, but it's certainly a great one. 22. Jesu's Jesu I've been trying to keep off doubles from bands on this list, but Jesu's first full length album, Jesu, is too great not to put somewhere on this list. This album sounds a lot more muddled and drone-ish than Jesu's album Silver, but it's still an excelent album. You can certainly feel what Brodwick was feeling while writing this album, and the atmosphere is excelent. 23. Dark Moor's Dark Moor Another great power metal album. Great guitar work, great vocals and a lot of fun to listen to. Very solid album and one of Dark Moor's best. 24. Between the Buried and Me's Colors This is another easy choice to make for the list, even though I very well could have put their album Alaska on as well. Between the Buried and Me is one of the very few Metalcore bands I will listen to, but they certainly sound nothing like other metalcore offerings. Great progressive work and the guitar is very impressive. 25. Agalloch's Pale Folklore One of the nice things about Agalloch is all of their albums feel very different musically. Pale Folklore has a lot of folk elements to it, and feels a lot more atmospheric than their other albums. While I think I would put this on the list even if just for their song She Painted Fire Across The Skyline the rest of the album is all very strong as well. It's difficult picking a favorite from Agalloch's discography, but I think this would have to be mine. 26. Alice in Chain's Dirt I actually really enjoy Alice in Chain's Dirt album. I normally don't really listen to grunge style music, but I have to make an exception for Alice in Chains. Dirt has a great selection of songs from Them Bones, to Rooster to Angry Chair. Easily a great listen. 27. Amon Amarth's Versus the World [cabbage], what can I say? I mean this is an incredibly badass album, haha. There isn't much I can really explain about Amarth. It's heavy, it's got some great guitar work in it, and it's bad [wagon]. Pretty much exactly what you would want from a metal album. 28. Blut Aus Nord's The World Which Transforms God I don't listen to much Black Metal these days but Blut Aus Nord's The World Which Transforms God can be an exception. This is excelent depressive black metal. 29. Muse's Absolution I have to say I'm a sucker for catchy albums. I don't consider Muse to be the most musical band in the world, but I don't care. Absolution is a lot of fun to listen to and quite catchy. 30. Pink Floyd's The Piper at the Gates of Dawn I'm sure that putting Pink Floyd's first album will make me seem elitist but in all honesty I find it to be my favorite out of their discography. I love the unique sound that songs such as The Gnome or Bike have, and songs such as Interstellar Overdrive are just amazing.

I knew there was a reason for you being so adamant and biased against alcohol. Either way as sad of a story as yours is it certainly is not the norm.

It's a pity, you can't even steal art correctly.

It's pointless arguing with you, perfectc, if you're just going to throw out false statistics and bias. Nothing of yours has any factual basis to it. Besides, there is a difference between a persons life revolving around alcohol and alcohol simply being a part of a persons life. Point being is I wear clothes, well, quite often really. It doesn't mean that my life revolves around clothing. I don't live for clothing, even though most of my activities are going to be done with it on. Likewise with alcohol, so what if people enjoy a glass at supper, or at the game? So what if we want to cook a nice roast with a little bit of wine in it (which just gets diluted, btw). I don't see how that means a persons life revolves around it or anything. Sure, my dad and mom probably will have a beer at supper most of the time. Still I've never actually seen them drunk (even at family outings) or drink more than a few beers. Their lives don't revolve around alcohol. I don't know why you're so biased other than maybe your parents got you to believe this way. (Considering your family very rarely drinks.) Still it's stupid to argue with you if you are going to have such a strong bias against alcohol.

Got Trine. Wonderful game, you guy's should really try it. It's a 2D Side Scroller/Platformer/Puzzle game. (for PC and coming to PSN soon)

A lawsuit over a power cord? @OP: Just call HP up and ask. It's pretty easy.

Oh no, no more Activision games! I would like to see a PS3 price cut though, the console has a lot of titles I'm interested in. Of course I don't have much money at all right now anyways, so I don't think it matters either way.

Blue Oyster cult's Magna of Illusion. This is an awesome song.