Nerd alert.

[The Baskinator]

At first glance, my car has absolutely nothing to do with Max Payne.

http://www.datazap.net/free/thebaskinator/remedy/mxpayne1.jpg

But on closer examination...

http://www.datazap.net/free/thebaskinator/remedy/mxpayne2.jpg

Yes, I realize it's incredibly geeky. I love Max Payne, though! images/icons/grin.gif

Albeit, I still hate Missouri for only allowing 6 characters on a license plate. graemlins/tinyted.gif images/icons/mad.gif graemlins/tinyted.gif images/icons/mad.gif graemlins/tinyted.gif

[Chimera]

lol - nice one Basky images/icons/wink.gif
You could always make up for the 2 missing letters by decorating the sides of your car, or perhaps the bonnet? images/icons/tongue.gif images/icons/wink.gif

(ps. would I be right in thinking that you just have to request a personalised licence plate in America and not pay some extortionate amount for it?)

[Joe Siegler]

/me checks image for photoshop hack. images/icons/wink.gif

[The Baskinator]

lol - nice one Basky
You could always make up for the 2 missing letters by decorating the sides of your car, or perhaps the bonnet?

(ps. would I be right in thinking that you just have to request a personalised licence plate in America and not pay some extortionate amount for it?)<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">I could paint the Remedy logo all over the car, but I'm not sure my parents would care for that. images/icons/grin.gif

You have to pay for personalized plates, but in some states it's less money. Missouri is surprisingly cheap (which is the only way I was allowed to do this).

/me checks image for photoshop hack. <font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">*laughs* Well, photoshopping it would have been cheaper... images/icons/grin.gif

[RollingBrass]

Originally posted by chimera:
lol - nice one Basky images/icons/wink.gif
You could always make up for the 2 missing letters by decorating the sides of your car, or perhaps the bonnet? images/icons/tongue.gif images/icons/wink.gif

(ps. would I be right in thinking that you just have to request a personalised licence plate in America and not pay some extortionate amount for it?) <font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">I think you have to pay. I'm not sure how much, though. I believe I heard $50 a year somewhere, but that could be wrong.

[Joe Siegler]

It depends on what state you live in as to what you pay. When I was living in Pennsylvania, you had to pay $40 one time, and then it's just part of your regular yearly registration.

In Texas, they want $40 per year on top of you regular registration (which is $60). It's one of the reasons I gave up my "D FISH" license plate here after awhile. Got tired of paying $3.33 a month just to have that on my license plate.

[Chimera]

ah, that makes it clearer (the only reference I had was from the Simpsons when marge requested a 'mitzi' licence plate images/icons/rolleyes.gif )

Over here personalised plates are a bit of a status symbol, its a one off fee to buy the plate+transfer it.
For a plate with say, your 3 initials on it you could pay a few hundred, but for a plate with a recognisable word or name on it you can expect to pay a few thousand pounds.
Plus British licence plates are very restrictive (probably why they cost so much images/icons/tongue.gif ) damn the dvla!!!


EDIT: registration? I guess thats like road tax. £105 for me, I have a car with a small engine images/icons/tongue.gif

[The Baskinator]

ah, that makes it clearer (the only reference I had was from the Simpsons when marge requested a 'mitzi' licence plate )
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">"No, but you can have 'nitzi'." images/icons/grin.gif

[Jade]

Originally posted by The Baskinator:

But on closer examination...

http://www.datazap.net/free/thebaskinator/remedy/mxpayne2.jpg
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">That's incredible images/icons/grin.gif

[Joe Siegler]

Here's mine. Click on image for larger version.

http://www.dopefish.com/images/plate.jpg (http://www.dopefish.com/images/fishplate.jpg)

[Champ32]

Originally posted by Joe3DR:
Here's mine. Click on image for larger version.

http://www.dopefish.com/images/plate.jpg (http://www.dopefish.com/images/fishplate.jpg) <font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">I saw that at the dopefish website.Thats cool. images/icons/tongue.gif

[Wamplet]

cool plate images/icons/wink.gif

its about 40 gold in H-town a year, just like Bossman Joe stated.

i checked into it once. i wanted mine to say "Wamplet", but they only allow 6 characters images/icons/mad.gif :mad_max: :maddieman: :mad :amd: :intel: :p4:

i think they allowed 7 only if it was all numbers or 7 if it was a space in the middle. o welp, i just have to wait for more meddling kids to flood the DMV with car license requests. Only then might i have a chance at them raising the character limit graemlins/tinyted.gif

[MikaRMD]

Originally posted by Joe3DR:
It depends on what state you live in as to what you pay. When I was living in Pennsylvania, you had to pay $40 one time, and then it's just part of your regular yearly registration.

In Texas, they want $40 per year on top of you regular registration (which is $60). It's one of the reasons I gave up my "D FISH" license plate here after awhile. Got tired of paying $3.33 a month just to have that on my license plate. <font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">In our beloved country, special plates cost 1000 euros, now roughly $1,050. In addition, there are special rules, which really do not give much freedom in choosing what the plate says. That sucks.

[biXen]

Yeah, nordic countries sucks... cool plate Basky images/icons/smile.gif

[SkavenRMD]

OMG... every time, I think, "No, she can't take her fandom any further than that", and every time, I'm wrong. http://www.modplug.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rotfl.gif

[ 03-19-2003, 03:06 AM: Message edited by: SkavenRMD ]

[Marty]

LOL Baskinator! give her another Max Payne shirt! graemlins/love.gif

[Kev_Hectic]

Originally posted by SkavenRMD:
OMG... every time, I think, "No, she can't take her fandom any further than that", and every time, I'm wrong. http://www.modplug.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rotfl.gif <font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">/Me thinking the next step up from this would be to buy a car that looks like Max's images/icons/shocked.gif

... what type of car does Max drive anyway? it looks like an old Plymouth from the 50's or something.

But anyway, cool plates images/icons/grin.gif

[Jade]

Originally posted by Kev_Hectic:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by SkavenRMD:
OMG... every time, I think, "No, she can't take her fandom any further than that", and every time, I'm wrong. http://www.modplug.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rotfl.gif <font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">/Me thinking the next step up from this would be to buy a car that looks like Max's images/icons/shocked.gif

... what type of car does Max drive anyway? it looks like an old Plymouth from the 50's or something.

But anyway, cool plates images/icons/grin.gif </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">I thought it was a green Lamborghini images/icons/grin.gif

[Kev_Hectic]

^You probably getting Max confused with Sam Lake.


And thanks for making me bring up my dormant memories of grade 1 graemlins/tinyted.gif

...Lamborgreeny graemlins/doh.gif

[Jade]

Originally posted by Kev_Hectic:
^You probably getting Max confused with Sam Lake.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Lol, what do you mean?

[Kev_Hectic]

^ I thought you where making some joke about Sam Lake owning a Green Lamborghini, since most big shoot game developers are usually known to own expensive cars like Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Porsches and such.

Guess not, what where you talking about? images/icons/confused.gif

[Jade]

It wasn't a joke, there's a scene in the comic(where Max meet Vladmir) in which the car is driving Max reminded me of a Lamborghini.
But well, I'm not a cars expert images/icons/grin.gif

[Kev_Hectic]

Heh, never noticed that. Maybe I should play the game through again images/icons/grin.gif

[The Flying Fish]

Cool plate Baskinator.

Originally posted by Wamplet:
i checked into it once. i wanted mine to say "Wamplet", but they only allow 6 characters images/icons/mad.gif :mad_max: :maddieman: :mad :amd: :intel: :p4: <font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">You could always get "Wamplt" or something like that.

[Bludd]

h00rj for The Baskinator! \o/

[Wamplet]

Originally posted by The Flying Fish:
You could always get "Wamplt" or something like that. <font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Indeed. i thought of having it say Wamp, but i prefer Wamplet over Wamp, cuz it sounds so cute.

ex. Piglet sounds much cuter than Pig. images/icons/wink.gif

[The Baskinator]

OMG... every time, I think, "No, she can't take her fandom any further than that", and every time, I'm wrong. <font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Believe it or not, my second choice for the plate was "ILV RMD". images/icons/wink.gif

The Baskymobile <font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">My car will be called that from now on. \o/

[Maddieman]

I think the graphic novels imply that Max steals a few cars throughout the game.

The Baskymobile is pretty cool though. images/icons/smile.gif

I can't even afford a car (damn insurance graemlins/tinyted.gif ) , let alone personalised number plates.

[Darkreaver]

Nice license plates Basky but you should consider yourself lucky you can write even that.I own a souped-up Toyota Celica (the newest model) but the greek goverment doesn't accept names on licence plates,damn it images/icons/mad.gif