who is watching?

zeph’s pop culture quiz #9 Who is watching TV in this screencap? Of course there are points awarded already for recognizing what he is watching. But a full solution requires the name of the actor watching, and the title of the movie within which he is watching a movie.     Just leave a comment with your educated guess—you can ask for additional hints, too. [Leaving a comment is easy; just click the ‘Leave a comment’ at the end of the post and fill in the form. If it’s the first time you post a comment, it will be held … Continue reading

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Favorite merovingian ties

beyond the 85 knots of Fink and Mao  Most of you have not noticed, I presume, because when the ↑character ‘Merovingian’ (Lambert Wilson) first appears in ‘↑Matrix Reloaded‘ (2003), your eyes were on ↑‘Persephone’ (Monica Bellucci) at his side. But, if you would have watched the Merovingian, and would have slid down your gaze from his face a bit—not quite as far as you practiced on Miss Bellucci—you would have noticed, that the man sports a decidedly strange looking knot on his necktie. Meanwhile there is a knot around which seems to resemble the one in the movie, and indeed … Continue reading

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garry’s mod

  ↑Garry’s mod [Gmod], of which ↑version 9.0 was released just today, is a ↵HL2-mod[ification] which allows you to ↑do uncanny things in HL2. ↑Wikipedia says: “Garry’s Mod (Gmod), a successor to the throne of the original JBMod, is a simple modification created by Garry Newman. While it does not have any actual gameplay value, it functions as a huge sandbox, where the player is free to manipulate most of the objects and features of the Source engine. This has allowed an extensive community to build up and creating mini-games with Gmod, therefore creating a “Game in a Game” of … Continue reading

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the chateau 1.1

theHunted [aka JcDenton999 aka Grazer]. 2003. The Château 1.1. mod-type: level, gameplay_tweak, fx_tweak, music_tweak release date: 20 June 2003 release package: chateau-v1x.zip [18MB] package contains: chateau-v1x.mpm [34MB] | readme.txt [2KB] download: ↑at filefront accompanying readme.txt: //================== The Château 1.1 ================== //a Max Payne, KungFu Edition 3.0, map addon //Creator: theHunted aka. JcDenton999 aka… //mailto: JcDenton999[at]gmx.at //Overview: The Château is a very small map, based on The Matrix Reloaded Movie. In Combination with KungFu it brings you a cool Fighting Experience to the wonderful Max Payne. //Features: – New Map – few new sounds and music – KungFu 3.0 (of course) … Continue reading

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masterfusion

Masterfusion, leader of the mod-project ↵Matrixed Reality has published a comment wherein he states, that he plans to switch engines: Hey guys, perhaps you have noticed that I didn’t update my site in the last time and didn’t show any new stuff. Well, I thought about which features to add in the next version, but everytime I had a cool idea I had to recognize that the limitations of the modding-system in Max Payne don’t make it possible to include. This pissed me off, so I finally decided to change the engine and continue with Matrixed Reality by making a … Continue reading

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dukefx

Raeyl. 2002. DukeFX. mod-type: gameplay_tweak, skin_tweak, fx_tweak release date: 16 April 2002 release package: DukeFX.zip [6MB] package contains: DukeFX.mpm [9MB] | DukeFX_info.txt [1KB] download: ↑at filefront accompanying DukeFX_info.txt: Author: Raeyl Title: DukeFX Email: raeyl[at]hotmail.com ———- Features ———- -Duke Nukem skin replacement for Payne -KungFu 2.0 -Matrix Wave particle -enhanced Bullet-Time -increased bullet speed to reflect realism (400 metres per second; used to be 50) … Continue reading

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matrixed reality

There is yet another Matrix-mod for Max Payne in the making: Matrixed Reality. The team-leader is Masterfusion—seemingly from Germany or Austria. The Neo-model looks very good, far more similar to Keanu Reeves than most others I have seen. One of the mod’s features will be a ‘new level selector. It will be a level, the loading-room of The Matrix. Everything will be white (like in the movie) and Neo will say ‘I need guns…lots of guns’. Then you will be able to collect a lot of weapons and go to a telephone and change to the level you want to … Continue reading

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