Kewl.. I've been missing playing Battlefield 1942 but I play Battlefield 2 from time to time... can't wait to try this mod this weekend.

you can download the mod here: http://forgottenhope.bf1942files.com/main.php?lang=english

and the password to extract the full 2.1 version is: -=FH-TS-Server:80.190.243.217:20019=-

1. What's Opera, Doc? (Warner Bros./1957)
2. Duck Amuck (Warner Bros./1953)
3. The Band Concert (Disney/1935)
4. Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century (Warner Bros./1953)
5. One Froggy Evening (Warner Bros./1956)
6. Gertie the Dinosaur (Winsor McCay/1914)
7. Red Hot Riding Hood (MGM/1943)
8. Porky in Wackyland (Warner Bros./1938)
9. Gerald McBoing Boing (UPA]/1951)
10. King-Size Canary (MGM/1947)
11. Three Little Pigs (Disney/1933)
12. Rabbit of Seville (Warner Bros./1950)
13. Steamboat Willie (Disney/1928)
14. The Old Mill (Disney/1937)
15. Bad Luck Blackie (MGM/1949)
16. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (Warner Bros./1946)
17. Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (Fleischer/1936)
18. The Skeleton Dance (Disney/1929)
19. Snow White (1933 cartoon) (Fleischer/1933)
20. Minnie the Moocher (Fleischer/1932)
21. Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs (Warner Bros./1943)
22. Der Fuehrer's Face (Disney/1943)
23. Little Rural Riding Hood (MGM/1949)
24. The Tell-Tale Heart (UPA/1953)
25. The Big Snit (National Film Board of Canada/1985)
26. Brave Little Tailor (Disney/1938)
27. Clock Cleaners (Disney/1937)
28. Northwest Hounded Police (MGM/1946)
29. Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom (Disney/1953)
30. Rabbit Seasoning (Warner Bros./1952)
31. The Scarlet Pumpernickel (Warner Bros./1950)
32. The Cat Came Back (National Film Board Of Canada/1988)
33. Superman (Fleischer/1941)
34. You Ought To Be in Pictures (Warner Bros./1940)
35. Ali Baba Bunny (Warner Bros./1957)
36. Feed the Kitty (Warner Bros./1952)
37. Bimbo's Initiation (Fleischer/1931)
38. Bambi Meets Godzilla (International Rocketship/1969)
39. Little Red Riding Rabbit (Warner Bros./1941)
40. Peace on Earth (MGM/1939)
41. Rooty Toot Toot (UPA/1952)
42. The Cat Concerto (MGM/1947)
43. The Barber of Seville (Lantz/1944)
44. The Man Who Planted Trees (National Film Board Of Canada/1987)
45. Book Revue (Warner Bros./1946)
46. Quasi at the Quackadero (Cruikshank/1975)
47. Corny Concerto (Warner Bros./1943)
48. Unicorn in the Garden (UPA/1953)
49. The Dover Boys (Warner Bros./1942)
50. Felix in Hollywood (Sullivan/1923)

Right now I almost feel addicted to Team Fortress 2. I just can't stop playing.

In the past I was addicted to Quake 2 for a time. In my 2nd year of university I got Quake 2 for Xmas. After a month playing the solo game I went online and spent most of February 1998 drinking coffee and soda, eating fast food and donuts, and becoming an expert Quake 2 player. I don't think I went to more than a couple classes, and I'd be sketching Quake 2 drawings instead of taking notes, and I'd always get the urge to flee whenever I saw green in the corner of my vision -- look out, BFG! Then I got into working out and remembered I was at university surrounded by girls, and that lessened the addiction a bit, althought it basically split my focus between working out, girls, and video games. Then when I left town to go home for the summer I had to return my roommate's extra 3D card, and I wasn't about to play it in software mode. At the end of summer I bought myself a 3D accelerator and got back into the game with moderation.

I got addicted to Quake 3 in winter 2000/2001. For around two months it was all I wanted to think about. I got into a hardcore routine of buying 2 or 3 large coffees and sitting down for 6-hour ass-kicking sessions on CTF4 (space capture the flag).

Then in summer of 2001 I got pretty addicted to Tribes 2, and by then I had invested in real gaming hardware like a $500 video card, surround speakers, 19 inch monitor (pretty big back then). I'd stay up all night, enjoying myself immensely, playing for up to 10 hours at a time once or twice. I think Tribes 2 is probably still the most fun I've ever had playing video games.

Other multiplayer games I've been near-addicted to include Rainbow Six, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Battlefield 1942, Battlefield 2, and Aliens Vs Predator 2 (highly underrated!).

These days I lay out a lot of $ for gaming hardware (4GB RAM, X1950XTX CF Master with X1900XTX in crossfire, X-Fi Platinum, Dell 3007 WFP, Logitech Z5000, etc.. okay CPU is a generation behind.. X2 4400+), which can mostly be expensed to business, but which I would probably have anyways for hardcore gaming. Sorry for the e-peen but I love to talk gaming hardware and share gaming nostalgia.

I expect I will soon be addicted to Crysis.

This made me curious to see how many voices he does, so via wiki:

1. Porky Pig (1936-1989, assumed from Joe Dougherty)
2. The Maxwell (Jack Benny's car)
3. Daffy Duck (1937)
4. Happy Rabbit (a.k.a. Bugs Bunny's prototype) (1938)
5. Bugs Bunny (1940-1989)
6. Woody Woodpecker (1940)
7. Cecil Turtle (1941)
8. Tweety Bird (1942-1989)
9. Private Snafu, numerous World War II related cartoons (1943)
10. Yosemite Sam (1945-1989) ("Hare Trigger")
11. Pepé Le Pew (1945-1989)
12. Sylvester (1946-1989) aka Thomas (1947) in some films
13. Foghorn Leghorn (1946-1989)
14. The Barnyard Dawg (1946-1989)
15. Henery Hawk (1946-1989)
16. Charlie Dog (1947)
17. Mac (of Mac & Tosh) (1947)
18. K-9 (1948) (sidekick to Marvin the Martian)
19. Marvin the Martian (1948)
20. Road Runner (1949)
21. Beaky Buzzard (1950)
22. Elmer Fudd (1950, 1958, 1970s and 1980s)
23. Bruno the Bear (1951)
24. Wile E. Coyote (silent until 1952, first spoke in the short "Operation: Rabbit")
25. Speedy Gonzales (1953)
26. The Tasmanian Devil (1954)
27. Barney Rubble (1960-1989)
28. Dino (1960-1989) (Fred Flintstone's pet.)
29. Cosmo G. Spacely (1962)
30. Hardy Har Har (1962-1964)
31. Secret Squirrel (1965-1966)
32. Bubba McCoy from "Where's Huddles?"
33. Chug-a-Boom/The Ant Hill Mob/The Bully Brothers from "The Perils of Penelope Pitstop (1969)"
34. Speed Buggy (1973)
35. Tucker the Mouse from "A Cricket in Times Square (1973)"
36. Captain Caveman (1977)
37. Twiki from Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979)
38. Heathcliff (1980, appeared in syndication from 1984-1987)

You should check out Project Reality mod for BF2

http://www.videosift.com/video/Project-Reality-05-Promovideo

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“Oh wow. It's... so beautiful. Battlefield 2 didn't do it for me. After playing the Desert Combat mod for Battlefield 1942, nothing else ever came close. This looks like it just might. I can't wait.”

Oh wow. It's... so beautiful. Battlefield 2 didn't do it for me. After playing the Desert Combat mod for Battlefield 1942, nothing else ever came close. This looks like it just might. I can't wait.

30 September 1942- 28 February 1968
Harlem, New York, New York,
USA-Heroin Overdose

Used this song in the film, "This Boy's Life" with d' caprio, and "Pink Flamingos" scene where Divine hides meat between hers legs, at the market....


........Despite recording a strong album, his novelty appeal waned when his voice broke. By 1961, the teenager was a heroin addict and entered Manhattan General Hospital on a drug rehabilitation programme. Although he tried to reconstruct his career with the help of Dizzy Gillespie and even took dancing lessons and studied as a jazz drummer, his drug habit endured. In 1964, he was convicted of possessing narcotics and his finances were in a mess. His private life was equally chaotic and was punctuated by three marriages. In February 1968, he was discovered dead on the bathroom floor of his grandmother's New York apartment with a syringe by his side. The Teenager who never grew up was dead at the tragically young age of 25. His former group continued to record sporadically and in the 80s, surviving members Santiago and Merchant formed a new Teenagers and Pearl McKinnon took Lymon's part. They were inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 1993.


from.....http://www.oldies.com/artist-biography/Frankie-Lymon.html

Ernesto Lecuona y Casado (August 6, 1895 Guanabacoa, now part of Havana, Cuba - November 29, 1963 Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands) was a Cuban composer and performer, perhaps the greatest and most legendary Cuban musician of his time.

Lecuona started early studying piano under his sister Ernestina, then, at the Peyrellade Conservatoire under Antonio Saavedra and the famous Joaquin Nin. Lecuona graduated from the National Conservatory of Havana with a Gold Medal for interpretation when he was sixteen. And he performed outside of Cuba at the Aeolian Hall (New York) in 1916.

He first travelled to Spain in 1924 on a concert tour with violinist Maria de la Torre; his successful piano recitals in 1928 at Paris coincided with a rise in interest in Cuban music.

He was a prolific composer of songs and music for stage and film. His works consisted of zarzuela, Afro-Cuban and Cuban rhythms, suites and many songs which are still very famous. They include "Siboney" (Canto Siboney), "Malagueña" and "The Breeze And I" (Andalucía). In 1942, his great hit, "Always in My Heart" (Siempre en mi Corazon) was nominated for a Grammy for Best Song; however, it lost to "White Christmas." Lecuona was a master of the symphonic form and conducted the Ernesto Lecuona Symphonic Orchestra. The Orchestra performed in the Cuban Liberation Day Concert at Carnegie Hall on October 10, 1943. The concert included the world premiere of Lecuona's "Black Rhapsody." Lecuona also played popular music with his Lecuona Cuban Boys band.

In 1960, thoroughly unhappy with Castro's new regime, Lecuona moved to Tampa. He died 3 years later at Santa Cruz de Tenerife and he is buried in Hawthorne, New York.

- From Wikipedia

they have improved the graphics by alot farhad2000, i got in on the puplic beta as well. it makes BF2 look like bf 1942 that is if you have the computer for it. luckly i do right now and it looks amazing.

Okay: let's trying to be "honest" about all of this:

Bush screwed the pooch by invading Iraq. No arguement there. He would have been better off riding the wave of anger after 9-11 and simply making the entire mid-east a sheet of black glass. We could be debating the ethnic morals of wasting an entire culture after they were gone right now instead of this current fight.

I seem to recall most of the Democrats bitching about what Bush is doing voted to do it and continue to vote to fund it. They also voted for it when Clinton made a half-assed attempt in 1998, and called it a good idea (so did the Republicans).

Bush lied to the American people. Fact. So did Clinton. Fact. Oddly enough, both of them (along with all their political buddies on BOTH sides) lied about the same thing . . . Iraq and weapons of mass destruction.

Bush means to kill anyone threatening the US, fair or foul. Shame Clinton and Bush's father didn't have the same resolve. Then we could argue about Bush's tax cuts because all the terrorists would be dead or afraid of us and hiding.

Our soldiers are dying in a far away land over something that isn't really a threat to us anymore. Same arguement that people made to keep us out of WW II. It took Pearl Harbor to get us into THAT one, and we lost a lot more troops in that war under the great Democrat leader Roosevelt (no sarcasm: he was a great man, like Kennedy). Too bad more Democrats don't follow their fine example. In those days, the Democrats knew the stakes and were willing to pay the price.

Bush is stomping on freedoms and liberties of Americans. True. So did Roosevelt by the internment camps. So did Lincoln by fighting a war clearly against the Constitution.

Bush is stomping on the rights of our extra-national enemies we hold in prisons around the world. You betcha! I don't remember 19 terrorists reading anyone else their rights on 9-11. And since they AREN'T Americans . . . when did they get rights like us?

Are we in a bad spot right now? Bet your ass we are. Same when the Atlantic War was fought in early 1942 that Roosevelt covered up (research the Tenth Fleet actions to find out about that one), when we couldn't win a battle under McClellan in the Civil War (great doctoring of news releases, though), and when Carter had us so weak on defense in the 1970's that a Soviet victory in the Cold War seemed inevitable. Thankfully, both of those past Presidents (one Democrat and one Republican) knew enough to stick to the fight because it was all that they had left to do, and Carter got the floor mopped with his political corpse by Reagan.

I think that, baring some great shift in common sense, history will bear this President out as well. History tells us that the others were great for doing the same thing.

PS: A mojority elected Bush and the Republicans in 2004. I guess we are doing what the majority wants. Like it or not: by your rules, Bush wins that arguement. (Please don't rehash 2000: it's a dead horse)

(My last Nicholas Bros was a repost. D'oh! This is my second favorite Nicholas Brothers clip after http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=3588)

Shown here are Fayard and Harold Nicholas in Orchestra Wives (1942) backed by the Glenn Miller Orchestra to "(I've Got a Gal in) Kalamazoo".

Who are the Nicholas Brothers?

The Nicolas Brothers opened at the Cotton Club in 1932 and astonished their white audiences just as much as the residents of Harlem, slipping into their series of spins, twists, flips, and tap dancing to the jazz tempos of "Bugle Call Rag". It was as if Fayard and his still younger brother had gone dance-crazy and acrobatic. Sometimes, for encores Harold would sing another song, while Fayard, still dancing would mockingly conduct the orchestra in a comic pantomime that was beautifully exaggerated. They performed at the Cotton Club for two years, working with the orchestras of Lucky Millinder, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington and Jimmy Lunceford. During this time they filmed their first movie short, "Pie Pie Blackbird" in 1932, with Hubie Blake and his orchestra. -- http://NicholasBrothers.com

Didn't we learn this in Battlefield 1942 and many other games?

As with most propaganda it's heavy on emotion, and light on fact. It does make one correct observation that people brought up in extreme ideologies are taught to hate and there is no hope until they are the dominant ones.

I saw a similar propaganda film about the Japanese a few years ago. I'll see if I can find it. Better still, I wonder if there are any anti-american films from the 40's. I know there are already plenty made in the last few years.

I like this political cartoon better: http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=4094

And 1947? ...more like 1942 or '43

From the Wikipedia:

The final dramatic speech in his 1940 film The Great Dictator, which was critical of patriotic nationalism, was highly controversial, as was his vocal public support for the opening of a second European front in 1942 to assist the Soviet Union in World War II. The critical view of capitalism in his 1947 black comedy Monsieur Verdoux was also controversial, with the film being protested at many US cities. His European-made film A King in New York (1957) satirized the political persecution and paranioa which had forced him to leave the US five years earlier. After this film, Chaplin lost interest in making overt political statements, later saying that comedians and clowns should be apolitical and "above politics".

frm http://www.sonomacountyfreepress.com/bohos/bohofact.html
Conspiracies abound regarding this elite woodlands club. The clip is obviously of the hardcore conspiracy version, and the (long) snip below seems a more likely or reasonable description.

"What is the Bohemian Grove? The Bohemian Grove is a 2700 acre redwood forest, located in Monte Rio, CA. It contains accommodation for 2000 people to "camp" in luxury. It is owned by the Bohemian Club.

What is the Bohemian Club? The Bohemian Club is a private. all male club, which is headquartered in the Bohemian building in San Francisco. It was formed in 1872 by men who sought shelter from the frontier culture (or lack of culture).

Who are the present members? The Club has evolved into an association of rich and powerful men, mostly of this country (there are similar organizations in other countries). Some artists are allowed to join (often at reduced rates), because of their social status and entertainment value. The membership list has included every Republican U.S. president (as well as some Democrats) since 1923, many cabinet officials, and director; & CEO's of large corporations, including major financial institutions.

What industries are represented among the members? Major military contractors, oil companies, banks (including the Federal Reserve), utilities (including nuclear power), and national media (broadcast and print) have high-ranking officials as club members or guests. Many members are, or have been, on the board of directors of several of these corporations. You should note that most of the above industries depend heavily on a relationship with government for their profitability.

The members stay in different camps at the Grove, which have varying status levels. Members & frequent guests of the most prestigious camp (Mandalay) include: Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, S. D. Bechtel, Jr., Thomas Watson Jr. (IBM), Phillip Hawley (B of A), William Casey (CIA). and Ralph Bailey (Dupont). George Bush resides in a less prestigious camp (Hillbillies) with A. W. Clausen (World Bank), Walter Cronkite, and William F. Buckley.

What activities take place at the grove? The grove is the site of a two week retreat every July (as well as other smaller get-togethers throughout the year). At these retreats, the members commune with nature in a truly original way. They drink heavily from morning through the night, bask in their freedom to urinate on the redwoods, and perform pagan rituals (including the "Cremation of Care", in which the members wearing red-hooded robes, cremate a coffin effigy of "Dull Care" at the base of a 40 foot owl altar). Some (20%) engage in homosexual activity (but few of them support gay rights or AIDS research). They watch (and participate in) plays and comedy shows in which women are portrayed by male actors. Although women are not allowed in the Grove, members often leave at night to enjoy the company of the many prostitutes who come from around the world for this event. Is any of this hard to believe? Employees of the Grove have said that no verbal description can accurately portray the bizarre behavior of the Grove's inhabitants.

Besides this type of merriment. the annual gathering serves as an informational clearing house for the elite. The most powerful men in the country do their "networking" here, despite the Grove's motto "weaving spiders come not here" (don't do business in the Grove). At these gatherings men representing the government, military-industrial, and financial sectors meet and make major policy decisions. The Manhattan project, which produced the first atomic bombs, was conceived at the Grove in 1942. Other decisions made at the Grove include who our presidential candidates will be. There are speeches, known as "Lakeside Talks", wherein high-ranking officials disseminate information which is not available to the public-at-large. "