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Title: Derek Smart is Going to Invade Your Console
Post by: redmenace on June 24, 2005, 09:50:26 am
http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050623_150720.html Honestly, I don't think I will be buying this.
Title: Derek Smart is Going to Invade Your Console
Post by: aldo_14 on June 24, 2005, 09:51:09 am
Not a hope in hell.
Title: Derek Smart is Going to Invade Your Console
Post by: TopAce on June 24, 2005, 09:55:27 am
I don't buy consoles by default.
Title: Derek Smart is Going to Invade Your Console
Post by: redsniper on June 24, 2005, 10:07:26 am
I don't even want virtual reality. I like monitors and TVs just fine.
Title: Derek Smart is Going to Invade Your Console
Post by: MicroPsycho on June 24, 2005, 10:08:33 am
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But in times when gamers shell out up to $1000 for a graphics card, $500 for a VR subsystem almost appears to be a bargain.


no.
Title: Derek Smart is Going to Invade Your Console
Post by: Setekh on June 24, 2005, 10:11:18 am
I'm trying to be more disgusted, but it's not working.
Title: Derek Smart is Going to Invade Your Console
Post by: Turnsky on June 24, 2005, 10:14:19 am
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Originally posted by Setekh
I'm trying to be more disgusted, but it's not working.


people are gonna be complaining about either the wieght, or the fact that the dern things may give some migraines.

besides, it's a tad pricey, it'd be cheaper to just get a decent TV, and use it for more than one thing. :nod:
Title: Derek Smart is Going to Invade Your Console
Post by: vyper on June 24, 2005, 10:41:28 am
[q]Derek Smart is Going to Invade Your Console[/q]

I always thought it was my ass he was going for.
Title: Derek Smart is Going to Invade Your Console
Post by: aldo_14 on June 24, 2005, 10:41:56 am
Buy a VirtuaBoy; you can probably get 10 for £1 nowadays.
Title: Derek Smart is Going to Invade Your Console
Post by: Ford Prefect on June 24, 2005, 10:48:30 am
Don't you guys see the plot here? Derek Smart making "virtual reality" goggles that millions of people will wear.... It's clear that they're subliminal brainwashing devices that will program people to become addicted to his games. Wait a year and Land of the Dead is going to be a reality.
Title: Derek Smart is Going to Invade Your Console
Post by: pyro-manic on June 24, 2005, 10:51:00 am
Nein danke. :no:
Title: Derek Smart is Going to Invade Your Console
Post by: pyro-manic on June 24, 2005, 10:57:00 am
:wtf: double post...
Title: Derek Smart is Going to Invade Your Console
Post by: karajorma on June 24, 2005, 10:58:15 am
Is DS really connected with this or is 3001AD just a really unfortunate name choice?
Title: Derek Smart is Going to Invade Your Console
Post by: aldo_14 on June 24, 2005, 11:00:05 am
Unhappy coincidence.  

Incidentally, this is why these things will never catch on;
(http://www.3001ad.com/images/smvk.jpg)

See?  Looks a right ****.
Title: Derek Smart is Going to Invade Your Console
Post by: JoeLo on June 24, 2005, 11:16:43 am
One wasn't there something in the FAQ about burning in hell if you mention D*rr*k's name? Two I'm confused as hell, is this an indepentet system, or some sort of console extension.
Title: Derek Smart is Going to Invade Your Console
Post by: phreak on June 24, 2005, 11:29:17 am
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Originally posted by karajorma
Is DS really connected with this or is 3001AD just a really unfortunate name choice?


No DS's company is 3000AD.  I smell a lawsuit
Title: Derek Smart is Going to Invade Your Console
Post by: aldo_14 on June 24, 2005, 11:47:22 am
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Originally posted by JoeLo
One wasn't there something in the FAQ about burning in hell if you mention D*rr*k's name? Two I'm confused as hell, is this an indepentet system, or some sort of console extension.


DR (pfff....hahahahaha.... sorry, i'll compose myself) Smart has a neural network hyper-intelligence which locks onto any thread bearing his name, in order that he can post Over-Capitalised _unecessarily_ _underscored_ bold MESSAGES emphasising how he is an alpha leader of all men and should be worshipped because he is...er.....something.
Title: Derek Smart is Going to Invade Your Console
Post by: StratComm on June 24, 2005, 01:00:39 pm
I was wondering how far down this page I was going to get before someone realized this company is 3001AD, not 3000AD, and that the executive director in the article actually sounds like he knows what he's talking about :p

And ROFL @ aldo's DS description.
Title: Derek Smart is Going to Invade Your Console
Post by: Admiral LSD on June 24, 2005, 01:26:47 pm
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Originally posted by MicroPsycho
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But in times when gamers shell out up to $1000 for a graphics card, $500 for a VR subsystem almost appears to be a bargain.


no. [/B]


Seen the pricing on the GeForce 7800GTX? There's people out there retarded enough to buy not one, but i]two of those overpriced ****heaps.
Title: Derek Smart is Going to Invade Your Console
Post by: Marauder on June 24, 2005, 02:11:22 pm
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Originally posted by JoeLo
One wasn't there something in the FAQ about burning in hell if you mention D*rr*k's name?  


As far as I'm concerned, you can go and mention his name as long as you don't associate it with FS3. :doubt: And diss him while you're at it. :devil:
Title: Derek Smart is Going to Invade Your Console
Post by: YodaSean on June 24, 2005, 06:45:38 pm
They look too silly(particularly in bright purple).  I wouldn't want to be seen, even by my own family, wearing one of those things.  I'm still waiting on those 3D televisions, though.
Title: Derek Smart is Going to Invade Your Console
Post by: Styxx on June 24, 2005, 07:03:19 pm
Ugh, 320x240... Hardly a "high-tech" solution - the crappy, five-year-old sets we have at the lab for VR development are 640x480 stereo.
Title: Derek Smart is Going to Invade Your Console
Post by: FireCrack on June 24, 2005, 09:40:43 pm
Well atleast somthing came good out of this

new siggy!
Title: Derek Smart is Going to Invade Your Console
Post by: Styxx on June 25, 2005, 10:01:46 am
Yeah, just remove the bloody quote tags. Huge signatures are bad, mmkay?
Title: Derek Smart is Going to Invade Your Console
Post by: Inquisitor on June 25, 2005, 11:04:50 am
What does this have to with Derek Smart?

3000 AD is the game company.

3001 AD seems to be a virtual reality company in Mass.

Colour me confused as to why this topic exists, other than to poke fun at someone you don't like?
Title: Derek Smart is Going to Invade Your Console
Post by: Admiral LSD on June 25, 2005, 11:17:19 am
I think it went a little like this:

3001 AD = Battlecruiser 3001AD = Derek Smart = OH NOES!!!11
Title: Derek Smart is Going to Invade Your Console
Post by: aldo_14 on June 25, 2005, 11:43:35 am
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Originally posted by Inquisitor
Colour me confused as to why this topic exists,

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Originally posted by Inquisitor

to poke fun at someone you don't like
Title: Derek Smart is Going to Invade Your Console
Post by: TopAce on June 25, 2005, 12:03:21 pm
^

:lol:
Title: Derek Smart is Going to Invade Your Console
Post by: Nico on June 25, 2005, 12:46:43 pm
Mmh... always though virtual helmets would be nice. What, never tried Descent with a VFX1? :p
Title: Derek Smart is Going to Invade Your Console
Post by: Inquisitor on June 26, 2005, 08:40:39 am
Yah, but to do it for a completely wrong reason just makes you look stupid.
Title: Derek Smart is Going to Invade Your Console
Post by: aldo_14 on June 26, 2005, 08:42:03 am
I'm sure virtual reality will find its niche with pornography, as everything else seems to do.