Huckleberry Pie

I don't think so, Hilton deserves that sort of disciplinary action...

Me, too, just check out the Paris Hilton: Vice City parody picture I made... Hilton is such a stupid girl... Call CJ Johnson and let him beat up Paris, or something...hehe

Paris Hilton, after hours of being an unsuccessful Tommy Vercetti wannabe... OK, I've recently heard about Paris Hilton having a hard time with the fuzz. According to Wikipedia: So, does she deserve to get jailed? EDIT: Feel free to distribute the pic memetically, guys...

Yeah, I could have used Windows Movie Maker, but nooo.... About the Splinter Cell parts, my machinima is based on that game and on GTA, you can read more about it by clicking here. Tommy, one of the Vice City protagonists, made a cameo appearance in my Splinter story, too...

Hmm, too bad, I guess Rockstar hasn't realized the perks of open-source software before; if I give the developers a copy of a Linux distribution, and let them mess with the source code, would they be happy?

OK, many people were happy when Rockstar Games decided to give away their abandonware GTA games for free, but for most of us, one loose end remains - it's still closed-source! It would have really been better if the guys distributed it under the GNU General Public License (GPL), that is, people are free to download, view, study or otherwise modify its underlying source code, which is something like the recipe behind the program. Mobile game developers would benefit from this action, for one thing; a Symbian/mobile Java port of Grand Theft Auto can be really nice. Linux, and ReactOS, an open-source Windows NT clone, is enjoying nice reception because of the programs' open-source nature, and Take Two/Rockstar would also benefit from it, like boosted game sales, whether GTA, or their other games...

Try to emigrate to the Philippines, man, if you have the cash to fly to there. Shortcake said to me that GTA isn't banned there, and if you just can't help yourself, go there. But a better solution is that you should play chess instead; giving you the URL for a warez/pirated download of Vice City or San Andreas is definitely a no-no, Spartan, you could have nuked, or should I say, "Wasted", your account...

Gee, thanks, guys... I'm into making my comedy film, based on Splinter Cell, using the Sims 1/2 engine, and GTA: Vice City...

I just want to ask you guys, what type of 3D model does GTA: Vice City use? It's obvious that it's mostly low-to-medium polygon, but what file type is it and is Vice City a workable machinima medium?

Maybe if someone would make a Toyota Corolla (2004-later) or similar car model for Vice City, this would be better...

Nice template you got there - 110mb.com is a nice host to start with, since it gives you practically all the creative freedom - 2GB free web space, no forced ads, no spam, no nothing. Just a subdomain and a 10MB file size limit are the only quirks you have to live with, but that's OK...

I actually have a story at Fanfiction.net, which is similar in style to Epic Movie. The whole story centers on Sam Fisher, a loyal agent of the Third Echelon, and his "movie and pop culture encounters", with appearances from many movie characters and celebrities. The parody is now in progress, but I thought of an initial storyline to fill the thing up. I also plan to have a machinima version of this, and a game, when I have the resoures to buy a new PC... The game, on my point of view, would involve parodying various video games, with elements from Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, Grand Theft Auto, Half-Life, Need for Speed Carbon, and other games. Most of the playable characters can use everyday objects as melee weapons, such as shoes (boots for Fisher and Ludacris and Mary Janes and the like for the kids), toilet plungers, tennis rackets, Ping-Pong balls, sausages, lollipops, alkaline batteries, leather mallets, and the like. Of course, it would involve stealth tactics, and with some rather ridiculous stuff, such as Fisher knocking out Oompa-Loompas just to get a retinal scan at them. External links: Chapter 1: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3455452/1/ | Chapter 2: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3455452/2/ For those of you who don't get the story, here's the plot summary: SPOILER WARNING: Plot/ending details follow. The story is set shortly after the events of Splinter Cell: Double Agent, at the time where prices for strawberries went up, for unexplained reasons. Sam Fisher is now a wanted man, and he's now been chased by the NYPD. He had been depressed lately, after being hard-hit by the loss of her daughter, Sarah. As he was cowering in an abandoned building, he began singing a parody of the song On The Good Ship Lollipop, entitled "When You're Bein' Chased By The Cops". Lambert, his boss, then called him on his mobile phone, telling him that a guy on a Harley-Davidson sidecar will pick him up. Fisher was then sent to the Third Echelon, where he was ordered to use a modified Chronosphere and go back to the 1930s. There, he meets Shirley Temple, who was his first objective. Lambert ordered Sam to interrogate and fool Temple, just so that he could get the Golden Ticket from her. Sam later knew that Shirley's life was in danger from gangsters, and when he saw them trying to assault the actress, he, Temple and Ludacris (the rapper whom Fisher met earlier in the story; he also time-traveled to meet King Kong) hurriedly went in the Temples' family car, and did a parody of the street drift sequence from The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, with Ludacris and Shirley listening to the song Tokyo Drift on an iPod. The guys then lost track of the gangsters, and, as Lambert ordered, the three, with the car, beamed back to the year 2006 (actually, Double Agent was set in the year 2008), in the stadium where the World Cup took place (the parking lot to be exact). Shirley, of course, was amazed at the present time period, in which Sam replied, "Twisted history, kid, nothing else..." It was, coincidentally, the game where Zinedine Zidane had a bad time with Marco Materazzi, thus Sam and the guys hurriedly sneaked into the stadium where they watched the headbutt incident. Sam and Ludacris then laughed at the two soccer players, and then went out of the stadium and back to the Third Echelon HQ. Lambert then took the Golden Ticket from Temple, saying "Don't worry, Shirl, there are some things better than Willy Wonka...". The three then went to Paris, France, well, to contact Madeline and to hack at Lord Covington's computer. Ludacris then convinced Madeline to go to Willy Wonka's chocolate factory, in which Sam will break into. Alexander Romanov and Yuri, two of the key characters in Red Alert 2, was also in Wonka's factory, which surprised Fisher. Yuri then said that they "weren't spreading any Soviet influence anymore" and they got the chance to be in here after they mind-controlled Velma Dinkley just to get the Golden Ticket. Tanya Adams was also in the factory, since her dad was also a former employee. Sam secretly told Yuri that they were having a mission in the factory because a terrorist group has planted a "Hot Gas" suitcase bomb, a parody of the "Red Mercury" bomb in Double Agent, After the bomb was defused, they then went to Strawberryland, where another "Hot Gas" bomb was planted, and where a hostage situation was taking place. The Care Bears and Michael Jackson made a cameo appearance in the chapter, in which Jackson was expelled from Strawberryland and the Care Bears were helping Strawberry Shortcake in getting rid of the Indonesian terrorists - the same ones who appeared in Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow. It is then revealed that Licorice Whip, one of the Strawberryland antagonists, was the instigator of the incident. Sam then asked Shortcake about his headquarters - ultimately, Lambert ordered him to spy on a meeting between Licorice Whip and his unknown accomplices, who shockingly turn out to be the Indonesian terrorists. At the meeting, Licorice Whip farted, and a firefight subsequently breaks out between his minions and the guerrilla troops. Amidst the chaos, Sam pursues Licorice Whip to the roof, where, after a tense Mexican standoff, Sam knocks Licorice Whip unconscious, parodying the Shetland sequence in Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. After Fisher succeeds in getting rid of the terrorists, Shortcake then joined the gang, and they went to Memphis, Tennessee, where they met Justin Timberlake - the mission has just been finished, and they had a party in Timberlake's house. After the two-hour party, they went on a stroll, but unfortunately, Shirley was hit by an errant spy sattelite, with Sam saying, "If I did this to Girl Scouts selling cookies in front of my house, this would be worse,", and Ludacris quipping, "We've shot down the Good Ship Lollipop...", and Ludacris and Justin panicked. Spoilers end here. So, guys, what do you think? Any improvements?

Thanks, Ram, I'll be making some more in my spare time...

Here are the userbars I made using Photoshop 7.0: http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/3410/parodyuserbarcv1.gif http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/6466/dubeditionia7.gif http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/7064/ssuserbardz6.gif http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/5669/ssuserbar2hz2.gif http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/8780/shortcake2vw2.gif http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/6060/shortcake21uy4.gif Feel free to use my userbars, guys, I know my bars seem crappy or dorky, but, what the heck?

I also have one in my mom's Nokia 6230 - the Mini is a scaled-down version of Opera's mobile browser, that is, written in Java Mobile Edition, and is usually designed for older smartphones that don't have expandable memory or enormous resources. Unlike it's Symbian-based sister, the Mini has rather limited options - cannot save pics and downloads, etc, and instead of the app itself processing HTML pages, the HTML pages are processed via Opera's proxy servers, and sent to the phone as a more mobile-friendly web page. I liked the applet a lot, despite its limitations, and I occasionally use it for mobile browsing on a non-Symbian phone.

It depends on your budget and your purpose - whenever you only want to spend 500 bucks on an entry-level to mid end PC, (Celeron, Pentium IV/D, AMD Sempron), or a souped-up, ultra-fast, high-performance gaming rig (AMD Dual Core 64, Core2Duo, Xeon, etc.) for 700-2000 bucks. Two questions: What kind of apps/games do you intend to install in your future machine, and what operating system do you choose to run? Windows XP, Vista or Linux? I don't think Vista is the way to go, since it's too much of a resource hog to me...

Yeah, you're right... Videogames, such as GTA, don't give damage to people; it's just like fire - use it properly, and you won't be burned...

GTA has faced numerous controversies, mostly from irate parents and the authorities, thinking that the game is just some waste of time. For one thing, it is, judging from the sexual themes, but I think even some under-age gamers playing San Andreas can play it without ending up killing cops and flirting the ladies, as long as he understands the nature of the game and as long as he knows this is just some work of virtual fiction. I think parents should think twice before suing game developers - they can keep their kids from buying mature games, but they should understand that their children know what their doing - I guess some people are just plain biased or one-sided when it comes to videogames... Any opinions?

I'm afraid I can't give you the map for now... I'm still busy with Shortcake in hacking my neighbor's computer, and I'm also busy taking care of Custard the cat - she's a bit foul-mouthed today...

I'm Huckleberry Pie, from Strawberryland. Nope, I'm not promoting something or spamming here. I'm an amateur parodist (www.amiright.com/parody/authors/lpgunit.shtml), and something of a hooligan in my neighborhood. I'm not really into playing Grand Theft Auto all the time, and despite me rampaging happily through the streets of Vice City or San Andreas, I don't think Rockstar Games made GTA for me or other people to grab a gun and shoot at anyone - GTA was something of a gangster/hooligan simulator to me, and it's a stress reliever for me...