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Ben Whatsisname

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Posted in: olŠ±
 Ben Whatsisname
08-09-2002, 11:29 AM
#4
It's not "sour grapes" for FT2, but rather from FT1 - The Gone Jackals' contract with LucasArts was a business deal. Plain and simple. Sometimes business deals work out great for both parties, sometimes they don't. What Keith was talking ab...  [Read More]
Posted in: new forum design!
 Ben Whatsisname
08-03-2002, 12:44 PM
#5
Originally posted by scabb Who do we have to praise for this new Forum? It was a true team effort between Schmatz and I. The perfect blend of talent from both websites, and Metallus put the design up, which required a fair amount of work on his pa...  [Read More]
Posted in: Feedback requested
 Ben Whatsisname
07-30-2002, 1:28 PM
#4
Originally posted by mercatfat Whatever happened to your Full Throttle 2 fanfic? Well, it's up on Kickstand, but (as the author's note at the end says) it has been shelved due to Full Throttle II being in production. As I said in the first post on...  [Read More]
Posted in: Feedback requested
 Ben Whatsisname
07-28-2002, 10:23 PM
#1
I would honestly like to know what people think about the new fan fiction I wrote called "Full Throttle: Dark Origin" which is located in the Fan Fiction section of The Kickstand ( http://kickstand.mixnmojo.com ). Good or bad, lemme hear fr...  [Read More]
Posted in: The Gone Jackals
 Ben Whatsisname
07-22-2002, 8:34 PM
#2
No - the odds of The Gone Jackals doing the sequel are slim to none. This is partly because of what Keith and Rudy said in their interviews for The Kickstand ( http://hickstand.mixnmojo.com ). Keith's is the only TGJ interview up at the moment. Both...  [Read More]
Posted in: Easter Eggs
 Ben Whatsisname
07-19-2002, 5:25 AM
#2
Which eggs are you asking about? Might want to clarify....  [Read More]
Posted in: R.I.P. Roy
 Ben Whatsisname
07-14-2002, 10:36 AM
#9
I think Mark is in the same boat with Shatner and Nemoy. If you become too associated with a character, it typecasts you as being "only able to play that character. (Look at Joey Lawrence from "Brotherly Love" and "Blossom" -...  [Read More]
Posted in: Full Throttle and ESS
 Ben Whatsisname
06-09-2002, 10:51 AM
#3
His query: Dear ESS team When attempting to run the game "Full Throttle" (1995) by LucasArts I encountered problems with sound card detecting/support. When contacting LucasArts they told me to update my sound card driver. So I visited you...  [Read More]
Posted in: Full Throttle and ESS
 Ben Whatsisname
06-09-2002, 10:47 AM
#2
Here is his query to LEC tech support: PLATFORM: PC/IBM and compatibles MEDIA: CD-ROM LANGUAGE: English COUNTRY: Switzerland NATURE OF THE PROBLEM: Sound PROBLEM: hello In iMUSE installation "Sound Blaster Pro" is detected but the sound t...  [Read More]
Posted in: Full Throttle and ESS
 Ben Whatsisname
06-09-2002, 10:35 AM
#1
A user e-mailed me in desperation the other day after tech support from ESS and LEC fell kinda flat. I am pasting some of the e-mail here in the hopes that someone with Full Throttle and an ESS sound card will read it and be able to help get this guy...  [Read More]
Also, win98/me has a memory issue of crapping out with a "not enough memory" error when running on a pc with more than 512 megs of ram. For some people, going back to win98/me might not be a solution, considering the cheap price of ram thes...  [Read More]
Posted in: First question for the new forum
 Ben Whatsisname
06-01-2002, 11:53 PM
#4
As soon as anyone find out, we'll post the news everywhere including here. It's still in production right now (odds are very good that the scenes shown in the trailer are mostly made up of completed cutscenes) and LEC isn't Microsoft. They prefer to...  [Read More]
Posted in: First question for the new forum
 Ben Whatsisname
05-31-2002, 10:41 PM
#2
Grim Fandango (and I think EMI too) had joystick support showing that they are indeed fitting the technology for cross-platform games, but I feel that there is a reason they have left mouse support out in the past... Really too hard to steer a charac...  [Read More]
Posted in: Oi oi
 Ben Whatsisname
05-31-2002, 9:47 PM
#5
Hehehe - teach me......  [Read More]
Posted in: Oi oi
 Ben Whatsisname
05-31-2002, 9:40 PM
#3
There is also El Pollo Diablo's page, and The Polecat Roadmap by JBRAA. :) And... (insert Yoda voice here) There is another.......  [Read More]
Posted in: Full Throttle.
 Ben Whatsisname
04-10-2002, 4:40 AM
#18
Originally posted by Mr. Teliot No seriously. It's impossible to buy a copy of full throttle if you live in Europe. I live in Sweden and neither lucasarts nor amazon ships overseas. Not full throttle at least. I get pissed off. Check with BlueBlac...  [Read More]
Posted in: Worth?
 Ben Whatsisname
01-25-2002, 2:37 AM
#3
Originally posted by JackTheGaffer Your art professor does not know what he is talking about. Art is in the eye of the beholder. But if you teacher is just talking about $$$ vaule then he is right. Yeah - he was talking just $$$ value. Not sentime...  [Read More]
Posted in: Worth?
 Ben Whatsisname
01-25-2002, 1:39 AM
#1
My fine arts professor said it best "Art is worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it" That being said, I lost the boxes, but I still have the "bullitin board" poster, manual, and codesheet for Maniac Mansion and the codesh...  [Read More]
Posted in: Wanna become famous on The Kickstand?
 Ben Whatsisname
01-28-2002, 1:48 AM
#13
Originally posted by Trapezoid In that case, you have to put up this one without judging it: o/~ Old man Corley went for a piss... Then he got hit in the head with a club. o/~ By Trapezoid, 2002 I am posting up parodies... What song does that pa...  [Read More]
Posted in: Wanna become famous on The Kickstand?
 Ben Whatsisname
01-28-2002, 1:23 AM
#11
Originally posted by Prinity Me too. Although I'm not sure you really want it. :) I wanted to display all songs posted w/o judging them. :) Thanks for the permission....  [Read More]
Posted in: Wanna become famous on The Kickstand?
 Ben Whatsisname
01-26-2002, 6:14 PM
#9
Originally posted by Schmatz Ben I give you full permission to use whatever song I have written in the Christmas forums thing. ;) Cool - thanks. Yours has been added and will prolly be up tonight....  [Read More]
Posted in: Wanna become famous on The Kickstand?
 Ben Whatsisname
01-24-2002, 10:13 PM
#6
Originally posted by QueZTone Hey tough guy..seems your page's links to the sections are all dead :/ hope itll get fixed soon =] It will be fixed soonly - See, the "main" pages are "level 1" - I am getting them done now and mov...  [Read More]
Posted in: Wanna become famous on The Kickstand?
 Ben Whatsisname
01-23-2002, 11:21 PM
#1
I'm sure most of you are familiar with Kickstand Karaoke - the page on the Kickstand dedicated to Full Throttle-related song parodies. Well, I have written many non-ft song parodies since the last update and at christmastime (in this forum), many of...  [Read More]
Posted in: Rare LucasArts Antiques Maybe?
 Ben Whatsisname
01-25-2002, 1:48 AM
#24
Originally posted by LucasTones This isn't why I'm collecting the games in thier original boxes (I'm like Quez, I love the official merchandise and only the original releases have the cool stuff inside) but does anyone reckon that this LEC stuff mig...  [Read More]
Posted in: How does one become a MOD?
 Ben Whatsisname
07-31-2002, 2:48 PM
#31
Originally posted by King Andrei There's more ways you can become a mod: 1) hack mod's account. 2) hack admin's account and use it to make yourself a mod.;P Aren't you late for your plexonomy appointment, Andrei555? You got "hacked" by...  [Read More]
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