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Reflections in green and red

I happened to find myself sitting in front of a rather awesome set of reflective glass windows earlier this evening and got a few screenies. This one turned out the best for some Photoshopping: Original I didn't have the best of screenies...

Residual Self-Image · 04/27/2007 02:21

[7.2.1] This was no coincidence - Syntax - 4/19/07

Qwirk wrote: here's my problem: Oracle (or even The Oracle or The_Oracle) vs. Orrrrracle6255 yeahhhhhh. I buy it, sure. 'Cuase I'm an idiot Ok. Believe what you want. That's just so they can have the same live events character on all three...

Live Events · 04/20/2007 19:24:21

[7.2.1] This was no coincidence - Syntax - 4/19/07

tr0n wrote: How can we be sure this isn't a trick by the General? I was apprehensive the first time I saw one of these appearences. Oh teh nos! For Neo. We can't be sure. But what we can be sure of is that the Oracle wanted us to see this-...

Live Events · 04/20/2007 18:59:21

Maps available on The MxO Archive

Yeah, I should probably update those old links. The .com address still hasn't been freed up. Aaand, actually... the .net site is down for the rest of the month, too, since everybody downloading the soundtrack overloaded the bandwidth.... S...

Districts, Neighborhoods, and Constructs · 03/16/2007 19:52:11

RSI Pills & Stuff

I've got a set of screenies of my own from the character creation screen, and I'm pretty sure I've identified which ones are which. I'll be working on getting a page added to the MxO Archive with them all neat and orderly, if I can convinc...

Guides and FAQ's · 03/09/2007 01:30:53

MxO Moments

I've had this happen to me twice: I'm sitting in the cafeteria, alone, eating something and drinking Pepsi, when I hear a little squeaky noise from my left and slightly below me. I instantly look in that direction, expecting to see an inco...

General Discussion · 03/05/2007 01:45:34

Maps available on The MxO Archive

Well, I was gonna put my 2,000th post on this topic like I did with my 1,000th, but I got carried away on the RSI forum, so.... 2,001st post!!! WOO HOOOOOO!!! There. And again, I guess I should post some sort of update, so... I guess I mig...

Districts, Neighborhoods, and Constructs · 03/04/2007 12:09:27

Imax's Picture Thread

You should experiment with the Clone tool, if you haven't already. I use it all the time in Paint Shop Pro to replace UI elements with simple background parts. I even used it once to erase the in-game map and replace it with carpeting. It...

Residual Self-Image · 03/03/2007 23:54:01

Imax's Picture Thread

imax wrote: You know... it actually makes sense for the smoke trail to be bent a bit near the tip of the gun. If you think about it, your character is flying sideways as the bullet is flying straight forward through the dude. With that in...

Residual Self-Image · 03/03/2007 22:36:36

The Other Side of the Looking Glass - March 2, 2007

Personally, I'm most excited about this: Dying on a bench/chair no longer breaks the bench/chair. As someone who is slightly OCD and has started every single mission while sitting on a bench ever since I started in Beta, this makes my day....

Broadcast Depth · 03/02/2007 19:36:38

Enter the Matrix movie demo: Post Office Shoot-out

In preparation for a massive Matrix film marathon that I hope to put on for some friends of mine this weekend, I've been spending the last couple weeks polishing up my old Enter the Matrix movie that I made last year. Sadly, the whole thin...

Residual Self-Image · 02/26/2007 19:28

Need a good picture of Downtown for an art project

Does anybody have any really good screenshots of Downtown that they'd be willing to let me use for an art project? I need to make a postcard for an art class I'm taking, and I figured what better location to use as the backdrop than the Ma...

Residual Self-Image · 02/26/2007 14:23

Here Comes the Next Star Trek Movie..

Midnight wrote: Abrams, the prolific co-creator/executive producer of "Lost" and director of last year's "M:I III," has been developing the project through his Paramount-based Bad Robot shingle as a producer and writer. To say nothing of h...

Off-Topic Discussion · 02/26/2007 10:30:18

Well, this hits a little too close to home....

I'm sure everyone has heard of the child sex abuse sting operations that news agencies all across the country have been doing lately, most notably Dateline NBC's "To Catch a Predator" shows. I first heard about them from a friend who showe...

Off-Topic Discussion · 02/09/2007 13:40

Comedy?

I posted it in the Matrix Online group on Facebook a few weeks ago, though it's also been on the MxO Archive for a while ever since I got the picture from PhathomZtryker.

Residual Self-Image · 01/27/2007 13:11:03

Star Trek Online (an mmorpg)

Confining it to Federation affiliation only is a huge mistake. Games need conflict and in-character drama to stay interesting. Just imagine what MxO would be like if everyone played Zion.... If they ever did add other sides to the Star Tre...

Off-Topic Discussion · 01/18/2007 01:53:47

Welcome to The Billboard Online.

This game already won the award last year for Most Annoying Use of Ad Placement from some game rating web site. This only makes things worse. Seriously, are they trying to make us not play this game?

General Discussion · 12/14/2006 11:05:22

Ask the Devs an MXO question v.3

WGAnubis1 wrote: OMHG, its a first. Another dev has posted in the ask a dev an MXO question! OM... H G?... And really, don't you remember dear old HCFrog answering some of the early questions in the first Ask a Dev thread?

Archive Construct · 11/27/2006 21:56:30

Ask the Devs an MXO question v.3

Rarebit wrote: EDIT: Oh man, it's snowing in Seattle in November. This is messed up. Heck, it's snowing down here in Oregon, too. Just woke up to it

Archive Construct · 11/27/2006 09:11:18

Hardline Maps

First off, try clicking the Minus icon to zoom out and see if you still have problems. I always click that by habit just to get a better perspective of the surrounding area. Secondly, the data regarding which hardlines you have tagged is s...

Redpill Rescue · 11/21/2006 16:26:53

Improving Anome's MxO Archive portrait

Well, I decided that since Anome has become one of the more dramatic characters in MxO, his portrait on the MxO Archive should be made a bit spiffier than what I originally had: So I made this a week or two ago from one of the Live Event p...

Residual Self-Image · 11/16/2006 22:18

Update 48 Discussion Thread

Good God, if all those things actually work, this will be one of the best patches ever....

Update Discussion · 11/16/2006 22:11:28

All right, who is this? It's gotta be someone from MxO....

Don't ask how I got to this page, it has to do with my excessively ADD-ish tendencies while wasting time doing research on the Internet, but anyway, I came across this talk page on WikiPedia and noticed one of the users' names is "Pewpewla...

Off-Topic Discussion · 11/15/2006 23:02

Image Retrieval - November 15, 2006

Eh... I've always hated the little trails we've had already.... Can we get some way to turn these off completely? I've never liked air trails in video games; they always kills the realism.

Broadcast Depth · 11/15/2006 18:28:19

Ad Contest Entries

MeretrixMeretric wrote: If this one didn't win, it should've. Manos references FTW. And I was also going to point out the thing about the Reagan Steakhouse but Sykin already covered that (I did post about this before, but my post got eaten...

Residual Self-Image · 11/14/2006 16:09:05

Insects on city textures

Yeah, a lot of games take textures and flip them so that they are symmetrical, just so they don't have to draw so much new material. It usually results in a sort of Rorschach-ish type image, and Rorschach ink blots always look like either...

Districts, Neighborhoods, and Constructs · 11/09/2006 17:07:32

Computer specs that houses The Matrix

It's probably at least at the level of bio-computers or quantum computers, which are both next on the list for where computers might go next after transistors. Whereas current computers process data by using electricity to keep small switc...

Matrix Universe · 11/09/2006 17:04:19

Did The Matrix introduce you to Philosophy?

I took in interest in philosophy for my first two college years. After taking a course tought by a guy who didn't use his doctorate for about 25 years after he obtained it and who frequently said he "didn't understand this" or "would have...

Matrix Universe · 11/09/2006 16:54:51

Image Retrieval - November 8, 2006

Hey, cool, maybe people will actually hang out in the clubs instead of around telephone booths out on the street And yeah, even though I don't play on Vector, I know that Polyvinyl wouldn't be good. On top of being too close to Mara C, it'...

Broadcast Depth · 11/08/2006 20:33:24

Quick public Tetragrammaton sig anyone?

How's this, everyone? It doesn't specifically mention The Tetragrammaton so it can't be considered a discussion of specific CS incidents. Here's the code for it, if anyone wants to use it: <a href="http://help.station.sony.com/cgi-bin/soe....

Residual Self-Image · 11/07/2006 23:33:23

what ever happen to the other captin?

Yeah, uh, Ballard was probably the first to go, seeing as how he was the captain of the crew that Bane was on... >_>

General Discussion · 08/15/2006 12:27:32

The Oneironauts 1 Year Anniversary (Syntax / Avalon / 7-22, 4 pm PDT)

I realize this is short notice, but The Oneironauts will be having a celebration tomorrow afternoon / evening around 4 p.m. PDT / 8 p.m. EDT to celebrate our 1 year anniversary as a faction. We'll be partying down at Club Avalon, where we...

Player Events · 07/22/2006 01:23

Get paid to play video games? I'm a bit skeptical...

Well, after having no luck with the half-dozen places I applied to for work this summer, I remembered seeing a link to a site that offers the chance to earn money playing video games: http://www.gametesterguide.com/?hop=snowcone It's $34.9...

Off-Topic Discussion · 07/13/2006 15:56

New forums, eh?

And can we please not have the word "c0ck" banned on the new forums? At least not when it's included in another word or name like "Han**bleep**?" I tried posting some pictures with the name "han**bleep**" in the filename and they wouldn't...

Broadcast Depth · 07/09/2006 15:32:32

Why mara?

It really wasn't the players who designated Mara as "the" hangout place, it was more the devs. Apparently, they used to hang out there in early Beta, and it was also the place that they used to show off the game for the first time at E3 a...

Districts, Neighborhoods, and Constructs · 07/09/2006 03:10:25

The Other Side of the Looking Glass - Friday, July 7, 2006

Sykin wrote: Also, at least change cloudwol's forum handle to what it should be, (Punch the keys) for God's sake. It's only one letter! Heh. No kidding! I certainly understand how one letter can make a world of difference :smileysad: Oh, a...

Broadcast Depth · 07/08/2006 18:13:23

Trying my hand at video game design (again)

Well, in case anyone's wondered why I haven't been in game since Monday, there's a reason: I just installed Morrowind. Famous last words, I'm sure. The game itself wouldn't normally be enough to keep me away from MxO... however, it happens...

Off-Topic Discussion · 07/08/2006 01:25

New forums, eh?

MidnightFH wrote: Yeah happy dance! :smileyvery-happy: :smileyvery-happy: :smileyvery-happy: Midnight... that made my day :smileytongue:

Broadcast Depth · 07/07/2006 13:08:21

Images of the Real from the archives

I found these while going through my old MxO LiveJournal links now that I've gotten The MxO Archive back up and running with a new URL. I took them with my brother's digital camera at the beach one weekend and then went to work on them wit...

Residual Self-Image · 07/01/2006 23:34

Maps available on The MxO Archive

The site is back up at www.mxoarchive.net , so the maps can be found here: http://www.mxoarchive.net/maps.html

Districts, Neighborhoods, and Constructs · 07/01/2006 19:29:00

The MxO Archive is back up and running

...and I've finally bought a replacement URL: http://www.mxoarchive.net The downtime was, if I recall correctly, because of the merge between Radio Mega City and MxO Resource, which wiped out my hosted files with Symmetric. After reuploadi...

General Discussion · 07/01/2006 17:09

The Oneironauts

Looks great!... except you need to switch the "t" and "u" at the end of "Oneironauts" :smileytongue: I know at some point HTML was allowed, since my sig links to The MxO Archive (when it's up... :smileyindifferent: ), but I've recently tri...

Crew and Faction Recruiting - Syntax · 07/01/2006 16:27:15

Do Agents bleed?

Johnson also bleeds when Trinity perforates him with her micro-UZIs as they're plummeting from the rerouting facility window. It's kinda hard to see, but some of her bullets actually hit him and pass through, leaving small clouds of blood...

Matrix Universe · 06/27/2006 12:26:55

Mxo Abbreviations

Actually, if you want to get technical, that would be an abbreviated initialism :smileywink:

Guides and FAQ's · 06/22/2006 23:27:26

Mxo Abbreviations

Just a couple minor corrections... CCR = Customer Care Report GM = Game Master (from other MMOs, really, but still could be cause for confusion)

Guides and FAQ's · 06/22/2006 17:26:18

HOUSES?

She was probably role-playing. My "apartment" is near the Midian Park West hardline. I actually finally saw it as a mission area just a few months ago for the first time.

Districts, Neighborhoods, and Constructs · 06/19/2006 17:53:25

Trial Key user Beta Jump vs Beta Tester who are using beta jump

From what I hear, levelling up Hyper-Jump stops increasing your distance at 25 if you have Hyper-Jump Beta loaded, and it stops at 35 if you don't. Translation: level your Hyper-Jump up to 35 and you'll jump as high and far as someone with...

External Playtest Discussion · 05/23/2006 08:16:20

Furihata boss name

Fix'd.

Districts, Neighborhoods, and Constructs · 05/21/2006 11:51:31