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The little who? I just hate kiwi's, they give me the runs.

I'd put -500 down as kiwi.

Hehe, I know how that feels. Although coffee doesn't seem to remedy this in my case.

Eum I think you guys are missing the joke. The game itself is called Shatter and hasn't got anything to do with either William Shatner, Star Trek or Bob Dylan. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoZFjiEugww Someone on a totally unrelated site from the actual developers made a spoof using the above title as their basis. In the end the actual developer of the game, who did nothing wrong got a C&D letter because some idiot lawyer thought it was real and was the actual game they put out.

Source: tawkn.com Shatter Dev Served With Cease & Desist A legal representative for none other than William Shatner has sent a cease & desist notice to Sidhe, the developers of PSN-exclusive title, Shatter. A website posted a spoof of the game and put together the above image. It wasn't long before Sidhe's inbox contained this message from Boston Legal: August 18, 2009 Mario Wynands Tyrone McAuley Andy Satterthwaite Gentlemen: We represent William Shatner and it has come to our attention that you are planning to develop or have already developed and will soon place on the market for commercial sale a digital game utilizing our client's name and likeness as well as infringing on both Paramount's rights to the character "Captain Kirk" and Bob Dylan's rights to the song "Mr. Tambourine Man." See the site below: Game Console - Krog: Sidhe Interactive to release 'Shatner' mod Please be advised that you are to immediately cease and desist the further development, production, and or distribution of the game SHATNER or any other product that uses William Shatner's name or likeness without first obtaining his approval. We have notified both Paramount and Bob Dylan's representative of your intentions. Please confirm receipt of this e-mail and your response to so cease and desist. Failure to do so will leave us no alternative but to commence legal proceedings. And so, Sidhe went along for the ride and replied in kind: Thank you for your email. The GameConsole "report" you reference is what is commonly referred to on the internet as a "joke". The article is a parody of our game, and has no basis in reality in that it does not in any way reflect our intentions for further development of the Shatter IP or relate to any official statement we have made relating to the game. We have the utmost respect for Mr William Shatner and the licensing process, and if we had any intent of using rights related to either Mr Shatner, Star Trek, or Tambourine Man (which we do not) we would do so using the appropriate channels. Please respond acknowledging your receipt and understanding of this message, and confirming you have notified both Paramount and Bob Dylan's representatives of your misunderstanding. Regards, Mario Wynands Managing Director Sidhe

Downloaded it yesterday and it seems fine so far. Haven't been able to play much these past few days, but I'm looking forward to having some nice bouts. Hopefully the broken online isn't as bad as people keep mentioning. Must say that I'm terrible at the game now though. I couldn't even finish off all 3 opponents within the time limit in the 3 games I played. Guess I'm to used to the traditional fighting styles than the crazy shit this game throws at you. I would have loved it if they released X-Men vs Street Fighter though, as for some reason I always liked that one more on the Saturn when it comes to the vs games. Well, besides SNK vs Capcom that is.

Hehe, glad to hear that. Even though the forum there is extremely quiet as of late, they have an incredible crew there and a very nice group of posters. Not to mention several people who worked on the magazines I'm focussing on. That's why I keep putting the links of my latest issues up there as well, even though there aren't many replies or anything. It's all about respect.

Wow, missed this reply. :-/ I still haven't seen the game in the European store, only the demo. But I'll check again today. What does worry me though is that I just found out that Backbone did the port and I haven't been happy with a single game they did. They seem to mess something up every single time. Just like I found out myself on Puzzle Fighter last week, it just feels completely off compared to the Saturn and PSone versions. Heck even the GBA version was a lot more faithful than this mess on PSN.

Go on girl, shake that pussy! That's it! BTW that's a horrible instruction video. Not every pussycat likes to be touched the same way. You just have to go with the flow.

Well only if he has it done to him on multiple occasions, but what are the chances of that happening? As for a believable story? Swamp gas. Works every single time.

I'm not sure how erasing his memory will help us out though...

No problem. thanks for wanting to help out anyway.

FInally was able to go to the local MediaMarkt yesterday.

I had numerable problems with XP on a weekly basis, going from insignificant peeves, to huge software problems on many fronts. When it became time to get a new laptop, I was lucky enough that a good buddy of mine bought one just before me, so I could help him out with the just released Vista. After 2 separate installs and quite a bit of playing around with it, I knew this wasn't the setup I wanted to get as it would cause me just as much stress and headaches as my old XP and most likely even more. So I stepped over to Apple and got a Macbook Pro, which came with it's own problems. Which were: having to unlearn lots of stuff that everyone just assumes is normal on Windows as well as having to get to grips and finding the best software out for a totally different OS. At the risk of sounding like a broken record or even worse, like one of those horrible cheesy Apple commercials, I do have to say that the transition went a lot more smooth then I expected it to be. Just this week I had to go back to an XP system and I actually had trouble remembering how and where I could adjust certain setting in a program. It reminded me how alien my macbook first felt. Now that I have used it for a year and a half, day in day out, I can honestly say that I don't see me returning to a Windows OS, or any another one for that matter. If Apple for some reason screws up their next version of OS X, then I will gladly stay with Leopard as I love it to bits. It's just there, it does what it's supposed to do and actually feels transparent. Not having to think about things that could and will go wrong becomes real conforming very soon. I know when I open it up that it'll be there, unless my hardware breaks, and when I close it down, it'll be the exact same when I boot it up again. Every single time. The only thing I'm looking forward to now is Snow Leopard which promises some very nice tweaks and overall a very nice performance boost even with the same hardware configuration. Best of all the upgrade will only cost €30 at most. Damn, now I am starting to sound like those commercials.

Worthy of doing a full scan? You're more then ready to join the team looking at these last results! The color balance on these last 4 examples are probably as close to the original as we're going to get, so whatever setting you used for them, I'd say certainly keep using them! The actual discoloration of the pages due to aging (yellowing) is something which is very hard to compensate for, and in many cases even impossible. It all depends in what way the magazine is put together. So I wouldn't worry about that too much. As for cropping the pages and alignment and so forth, I can't find much to comment on really. So I would certainly say keep up the good work and I can't wait to see your first release.

Sarcasm doesn't translate over the web

Yeah, they're all mine. I actually gave you a +1 where you had a -1. But if you're wondering who gave you a -1 on this post I quoted, well yeah, now it was me.

Allright back on topic. Enough derailment for one day.

Don't forget confrontational. Keep bringing up the same thing again and again until someone bites.

There's a big difference between having a different opinion from others and having someone who, nearly every time he posts, you notice his name at the end of a thread and before you even enter it you know it'll be a snarky remark, derailment of a topic or discussion he doesn't like, argumentative BS, or just plain old trolling or having the exact opposite opinion of every single person in the thread even though they were not even agreeing among each other. I'm sure you'll be the first one in line. Now that the cat is out of the bag thanks to blabbermouth here, yes, we were planning this for the 10 year anniversary of the Dreamcast. So let me hear all the people who would be opposed to us scanning and adding Dreamcast only magazines to the line-up? Who knows, if we get enough people on here who vote against putting DC mags online, E-Day may get his wish and we might put it off for another 10 years or so.

Already did. Mine's meppi64 since some butthead already picked meppi.

I do indeed have those issues of Mean Machines Sega, as a matter of fact I'm only missing 7 issues of that publication and have the complete set of Mean Machines. The only problem is that I have so many other magazines that have yet to be scanned and edited, so I can't promise when I'll get to those. But sooner or later they will be scanned and put online.

I'll be picking it up the day it's released in Europe. When that'll be, I have no idea though. Loved the demo I downloaded from the US shop.

Happy birthday buddy! I hope you have a good one today.