My New Computer

FlayraFlayra Game Director, Unknown Worlds EntertainmentSan Francisco Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 3Super Administrators, NS2 Developer, Subnautica Developer
edited December 2003 in Off-Topic
Hey folks,

There's no way I could afford this myself, but I find myself in the incredibly lucky position where I'm being offered my "dream machine" as a Christmas present. Needless to say, I am stunned and very grateful. Because I spend so much time working on NS, I wanted a laptop, so I could make pretend I have a life and not be stuck in one room for years on end.

So after many weeks of "agony", looking over various Dells, Sagers, Alienwares and Voodoos, I've finally decided on the laptop I'm going to get. It's the <a href='http://www.voodoopc.com/systems/m355.aspx' target='_blank'>Voodoo M-355</a>, and is one sweet machine. My main requirements are that it's upgradeable, so I could both work on NS on it, and also work on NS2 (or whatever comes next) on it as well. The Voodoos are upgradeable, and are fit for development, gaming, or showing off. They are hand-built, and seriously high-quality.

I'm getting it pretty fully loaded up, and one of the great things about Voodoo, is they let you customize it with your own artwork. I'm sure it's really hard to guess what I would put on it....Squeal Like a Pig was so nice to make this artwork for me, and wow, does his work really shine. I had to send them a 500 dpi hi-res image of this thing, and until you've seen a hi-res 50 meg version of Squeal's artwork, you haven't really appreciated his talents. Attached is the low-res mockup of it (the black is a sports-car black sparkly high-gloss finish).

I'll be sure to post pictures of the beast when it arrives. One thing's for sure, it will turn heads...

If you ever see someone with a machine that looks like this, please come over and say hi, and if he isn't me, please call the authorities...

-Charlie
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  • MonsieurEvilMonsieurEvil Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 4Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    Charlie, wins... Fatality...
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  • KungFuDiscoMonkeyKungFuDiscoMonkey Creator of ns_altair 日本福岡県 Join Date: 2003-03-15 Member: 14555Members, NS1 Playtester, Reinforced - Onos
    NICE!
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  • criticaIcriticaI Join Date: 2003-04-07 Member: 15269Banned, Constellation
    edited December 2003
    What are the specs of the machine you're getting?
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  • MalevolentMalevolent Join Date: 2003-08-03 Member: 18842Members
    That laptop sounds sweet. Very lucky indeed.
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  • BlaqWolfBlaqWolf Join Date: 2002-10-28 Member: 1667Members
    dude, that is sweet!

    maybe when you're done, you can send me a giant sticker of that pic so i can slap it on my own computer case! <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • XythXyth Avatar Join Date: 2003-11-04 Member: 22312Members
    Nice man. That is some nizzle shizzle errrrr.... I mean nice stuff...*looks around*

    <!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->maybe when you're done, you can send me a giant sticker of that pic so i can slap it on my own computer case!:D<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Heh, what I wouldnt do for a Natural-Selection window Applique...
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  • LikuLiku I, am the Somberlain. Join Date: 2003-01-10 Member: 12128Members
    That's a fake image right?
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  • RuByRuBy Join Date: 2002-12-12 Member: 10732Members
    that's awesome! I want one of those stickers <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • Marik_SteeleMarik_Steele To rule in hell... Join Date: 2002-11-20 Member: 9466Members
    The ability to keep adding to & maintaining one of your life's largest works, and do so whenever/wherever you want = greatest Christmas present evar. Flayra, whoever is providing this opportunity for you, give them a Thank You card from all of us. A nice big one the size of Delaware or something.
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  • OttoDestructOttoDestruct Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7790Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Flayra+Dec 10 2003, 09:34 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Flayra @ Dec 10 2003, 09:34 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> If you ever see someone with a machine that looks like this, please come over and say hi, and if he isn't me, please call the authorities...
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    Screw that I'm mugging you and running like the flash with this baby. I get a new computer AND I can say I mugged the creator of NS.
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  • Supra_SoldierSupra_Soldier Join Date: 2003-02-02 Member: 12993Members, Constellation
    Oooooh, very nice computer. I wish I could get one of those for Christams <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->. I'll keep an eye out for anyone with a spiffy NS laptop, although I'm shure you live nowhere near me... I'd still wanna meet the almighty Flayra <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • MrMojoMrMojo Join Date: 2002-11-25 Member: 9882Members, Constellation
    Woah. Smooth. How much?
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  • TheSaviorTheSavior Join Date: 2003-10-14 Member: 21688Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Screw that I'm mugging you and running like the flash with this baby. I get a new computer AND I can say I mugged the creator of NS.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    What he said. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->

    /em drools

    Aptly named. The Voodoo M:355 <b>Envy</b> <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • Umbraed_MonkeyUmbraed_Monkey Join Date: 2002-11-25 Member: 9922Members
    It really cant get better than that for a christmas present. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • QUADQUAD Join Date: 2002-07-17 Member: 963Members
    edited December 2003
    Whoa! Sounds nice Flay... we better see some mad work pump out of that baby. You now no longer have an excuse to not work on NS... you can take it anywhere! <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->

    (P.S. - Squeal's art pwns. :o)
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  • RobRob Unknown Enemy Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 25Members, NS1 Playtester
    GG Flay!
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  • SirusSirus Join Date: 2002-11-13 Member: 8466Members, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    Fatality is right MonsE. GG Flay.
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  • [WHO]Them[WHO]Them You can call me Dave Join Date: 2002-12-11 Member: 10593Members, Constellation
    very smooth with the graphic on the back.
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  • DarkDudeDarkDude Join Date: 2003-08-06 Member: 19088Members
    Damn I Envy you Flayra. (pun intended) You've got my dream job, you get to:

    a.) Work on devoloping and playtesting NS all day
    b.) Have people send you money, and lots of it, I'm hard-pressed to get my friends to loan me .50 for a soda
    c.) Get offered a dream computer
    d.) Get to send people X-mas cards the size of Delaware

    How do people become so lucky... <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--DarkDude+Dec 11 2003, 01:09 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DarkDude @ Dec 11 2003, 01:09 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> b.) Have people send you money, and lots of it, I'm hard-pressed to get my friends to loan me .50 for a soda
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    I'm sure it's not exactly up to the level you would make if you, say, made a retail game that was even half as good as Natural Selection.

    Awesome computer though. Voodoo makes some of the best stuff in the business.
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  • UltimaGeckoUltimaGecko hates endnotes Join Date: 2003-05-14 Member: 16320Members
    That's a high quality laptop. Next Christmas ask for some Natural Selection geosycnronous satellites to provide anyone who wants to play NS an awesome ping (...in case their college's network sucks).


    <-- needs a better computer...maybe two: one laptop and one desktop and a cable to transfer between them...that'd be nice.
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  • Smoke_NovaSmoke_Nova Join Date: 2002-11-15 Member: 8697Members
    Flayra, I so envy you that machine...especially because it has the Natural Selection eye.


    and is it true what I hear, that you live in Vermont?
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  • MulletMullet Join Date: 2003-04-28 Member: 15910Members, Constellation
    holy crap, that is one nice computer! The ns eye makes it all, I must say. Damn you are one lucky guy....

    /me is jealous


    If I ever get another computer, I want to get some sort of NS pic on it now.... <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • RenegadeRenegade Old school Join Date: 2002-03-29 Member: 361Members
    edited December 2003
    Very nice. Mayhap not a powerful as my lil' beast, but a nice rig to be sure.

    *EDIT* Great, now I'm going to have nightmares from staring at that eye for too long.
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  • uranium_235uranium_235 Join Date: 2002-11-20 Member: 9478Banned
    No one else noticed this?


    <!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->and also work on NS2 (or whatever comes next) on it as well.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Bwahahhahahhahahahahahaaaaaaaaaa....
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  • MulletMullet Join Date: 2003-04-28 Member: 15910Members, Constellation
    NS2......... <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif'><!--endemo--> DAMN YOU FLAY AND YOUR SUBLIMINAL MESSAGES!!!11!1
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  • DreadDread Join Date: 2002-07-24 Member: 993Members
    HOOZAA! That's one sweet ride you got there Flay. I'm glad you get one, so you can do your thing even better. And in variety of places <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • BirdyBirdy Join Date: 2003-05-29 Member: 16825Members, Constellation
    Cool!

    Congratz flayra, you deserve it <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • WitherWither A Bugged Life Join Date: 2002-12-24 Member: 11513Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor, Constellation
    That's an uber sweet machine.


    Nice! I'll be expecting NS2 done next week then...<!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • KhaimKhaim Join Date: 2002-06-28 Member: 841Members, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    Wow, that thing is guna rock <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> sweet computer definately ^_^
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