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Re:Hold up... technical foul
"The flesh is weak, Johnny. Only the soul is immortal."
I see I mis-spelled Cyphre, as well.
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Re:CG WTF?For me, I think the caricature nature of the models in Shrek2 put it on the left of the valley.
Here's some more Shrek 2 pictures.
Are they really all that caricatured? Do you really believe they are less human than the Oblivion character? The problem with the Oblivion guy is that there's detail, but he looks like a stitched together corpse. The detail in Shrek 2 is blended together quite well. Everything fits. The hair and physics is important when the characters are moving so that they don't look like zombies or animated robots. The lighting on the skin is important, otherwise you get a mannequin look. In my book, anything on the right of the valley, you would have to look at it closely to determine if it were a photograph or a CGI. Shrek's characters are clearly CGI.That seems like an artificial line. Remember, this is a curve. I think it's clear the Oblivion guy is near the bottom of the curve, and something like cell-shading is to the left, and the humans in Shrek 2 managed to crawl out of the valley. If they were as good as photographs they'd be all the way to the right.
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Re:CG WTF?For me, I think the caricature nature of the models in Shrek2 put it on the left of the valley.
Here's some more Shrek 2 pictures.
Are they really all that caricatured? Do you really believe they are less human than the Oblivion character? The problem with the Oblivion guy is that there's detail, but he looks like a stitched together corpse. The detail in Shrek 2 is blended together quite well. Everything fits. The hair and physics is important when the characters are moving so that they don't look like zombies or animated robots. The lighting on the skin is important, otherwise you get a mannequin look. In my book, anything on the right of the valley, you would have to look at it closely to determine if it were a photograph or a CGI. Shrek's characters are clearly CGI.That seems like an artificial line. Remember, this is a curve. I think it's clear the Oblivion guy is near the bottom of the curve, and something like cell-shading is to the left, and the humans in Shrek 2 managed to crawl out of the valley. If they were as good as photographs they'd be all the way to the right.
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Re:CG WTF?For me, I think the caricature nature of the models in Shrek2 put it on the left of the valley.
Here's some more Shrek 2 pictures.
Are they really all that caricatured? Do you really believe they are less human than the Oblivion character? The problem with the Oblivion guy is that there's detail, but he looks like a stitched together corpse. The detail in Shrek 2 is blended together quite well. Everything fits. The hair and physics is important when the characters are moving so that they don't look like zombies or animated robots. The lighting on the skin is important, otherwise you get a mannequin look. In my book, anything on the right of the valley, you would have to look at it closely to determine if it were a photograph or a CGI. Shrek's characters are clearly CGI.That seems like an artificial line. Remember, this is a curve. I think it's clear the Oblivion guy is near the bottom of the curve, and something like cell-shading is to the left, and the humans in Shrek 2 managed to crawl out of the valley. If they were as good as photographs they'd be all the way to the right.
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Re:CG WTF?For me, I think the caricature nature of the models in Shrek2 put it on the left of the valley.
Here's some more Shrek 2 pictures.
Are they really all that caricatured? Do you really believe they are less human than the Oblivion character? The problem with the Oblivion guy is that there's detail, but he looks like a stitched together corpse. The detail in Shrek 2 is blended together quite well. Everything fits. The hair and physics is important when the characters are moving so that they don't look like zombies or animated robots. The lighting on the skin is important, otherwise you get a mannequin look. In my book, anything on the right of the valley, you would have to look at it closely to determine if it were a photograph or a CGI. Shrek's characters are clearly CGI.That seems like an artificial line. Remember, this is a curve. I think it's clear the Oblivion guy is near the bottom of the curve, and something like cell-shading is to the left, and the humans in Shrek 2 managed to crawl out of the valley. If they were as good as photographs they'd be all the way to the right.
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Re:Retrofurist?
Or has the 'steampunk' genre evolved into anything goes in a Victorian-era setting?
AFAICT the 'steampunk' label basically applies to anything that you could have seen in the movie Wild Wild West or in Back To The Future III. But IIRC the guns in WWW were normal guns, so this has to have been from BTTF3. But that used regular guns too. So: no steampunk. Period. -
Re:Retrofurist?
Or has the 'steampunk' genre evolved into anything goes in a Victorian-era setting?
AFAICT the 'steampunk' label basically applies to anything that you could have seen in the movie Wild Wild West or in Back To The Future III. But IIRC the guns in WWW were normal guns, so this has to have been from BTTF3. But that used regular guns too. So: no steampunk. Period. -
Re:CG WTF?
Wow -- watching that again was like meeting the bastard child of Buck Rogers and Heavy Metal!
No wonder I can't remember anything from that Christmas! -
Re:CG WTF?
Wow -- watching that again was like meeting the bastard child of Buck Rogers and Heavy Metal!
No wonder I can't remember anything from that Christmas! -
Re:Dear rest of the world,
Get yourself enrolled into a secret Army hibernation experiment, have it go off the rails, and you could be the hero who saves the country.
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Another Director & CG?
This new series (which looks like a continuation of the previous Clone Wars) will be directed by Dave Filoni http://imdb.com/name/nm1396048/ (Avatar, Dave the Barbarian), and in my opinion is a step down from Tartakowsky. We'll just have to see if the writing staff does as good a job with this as before. Also: Please, George, no more 5 minute episodes! Those were a torture...
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Re:A no win situation
Juices are also OK if drunk in moderation.
If you goto a grocery store in the US, and look at the "juices" 99% of them have no greater than ~30% "juice". Most of what makes up the "juice" is high fructose corn syrup, that yucky Type II Diabetes enabling crap. It is hard to find, but you can find the 100% juice stuff which has the natural sugers that are easier for you body to digest.
Actually, pure unmineralized water is not very good in combating thirst - your body loses salts with sweat so unmineralized water causes electrolyte imbalance.
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does that mean I can hear my screen updating??
I hear most often the screen getting "updated". Every time a high-pitch-tone is coming out of the CRT each time I get full screen updates or whenever I play a game on it. Same on television; I can hear this mostly when pressing FORWARD/REWIND of having static on the screen. It's often hardly noticible.
A lot of people call me crazy whenever I hear electronics whispering like that; it's not only with CRT's but also with some TL lightbulbs, transformers and even some CPU's give this distinctive sound. If I stay in the same room with a television with static on it for more than a hour I get headaches because of the continuesly-changing-waves in this high-pitch sound.
I am thirty and got this already since my mid-teens I am hearing these sounds; the bad thing is, these sounds are getting WORSE by the day!
And no, I don't need a shrink to evaluate these sounds; since it ain't voices talking to me. (I think) *grin* -
Max Headroom predicted the future...
24 hour news cycles. Cameras everywhere, ready to roll on a story. Cable TV. That show was more predictive than any futuristic/sci-fi serial I can think of off the top of my head.
If you're up for a weekend of watching the present of news being predicted in the past, watch a bunch of Max Headroom followed by 1976's Network, an excellent, excellent movie. -
Re:Tron's box office numbers
Actually, if you play through Tron 2.0 you discover it IS the sequel.
Picked it up for $8 at work a month ago. As a whole it's one of the better single player storylines in an FPS I've played in a long while. Theres a few just outright cheezy parts, hey it's dizney, but whouldn't make a bad transition to movie in the end. They even had several actors from the original film VO the game.
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In Soviet-Russia ...
In Soviet-Russia television kills you!
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Re:bah
Yep, right behind Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise, a made for TV movie starring Tom Selleck.
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What about farscape?
"This is expected to become the largest ever fan campaign to bring a television show back from cancellation."
I've never seen Jericho, and I bet the series is great, (I just watch very little TV nowadays) but
This makes me wonder how this will compare to the "save farscape" media frenzy that lots and lots of 'scapers took action to get Sci-Fi's rectal-cranial inversion syndrome diagnosed, and cured. It was on CNN Headline News for chrissakes!
All in all, I'll probally check out Jericho now. Good luck to all the Jericho fans, I hope you get your show back. -
Re:Tron!
"Trhaaaaaaaaan!"
- from "The Wrath of Tron"
Lest we forget, Star Trek II came out a month before Tron (June 4 and July 9, respectively in 1982). -
Re:Tron!
"Trhaaaaaaaaan!"
- from "The Wrath of Tron"
Lest we forget, Star Trek II came out a month before Tron (June 4 and July 9, respectively in 1982). -
Re:Storytelling?
Speaking of Tron and ET... John Williams was the composer for ET, Star Wars, Jaws, Indiana Jones, and just about every other movie I can remember the theme song to. I've often wondered how things would have turned out if he composed the theme for Tron and someone else did Star Wars. Seriously, check out his movie credits:
Nuts to storytelling. Would it have been so easy to accept that terrible Star Wars dialog without the awesome theme music to carry things along?
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Re:star wars virginAdditionally, I can't recall Star Wars being often quoted outside of nerd culture, [...] Uh? Is Toy Story 2 (http://imdb.com/title/tt0120363/) nerdy?
Buzz Lightyear: You killed my father.
Emperor Zurg: No Buzz, I am your father.
Buzz Lightyear: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! -
duh
Shouldn't this be obvious? No one in their right mind shops at Best Buy unless they've been stuck with a $50 gift card (that'll get you a 2-pack of AA batteries). I once saw two copies of the same movie being sold for $10 difference (one was title "Leon", the other, "The Professional"). I moved copies of the (still overpriced) cheaper version over to the more expensive version.
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Re:I have a feeling the ipods in the bin are all
Haven't you seen Speed? There are ways around that, especially when there's a bucket full of free ipods at stake.
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Re:This should be interesting.
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Re:This should be interesting.
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Re:PC Load Letter
but the first thing I'd do is pull the rollers and clean them all with alcohol, then take the printer outside and
As soon as I read up to that point all I could think is "Hey... I remember that scene... I know where this is going." -
Re:Too much control
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Re:Well
Good point, but doesn't it seem that we occasionally overshoot? Not being allowed to discuss certain things or think certain things. Is the holocaust more likely to happen again if we discuss it? Surely.
However as an earlier poster pointed out the concept of Holocaust is so strongly associated with Jews that the real mentality behind it and any discussion of the reasons for its horrors has been lost. People are still trying to genocidally attack jews in the middle east (Though this seems to be mainly a land issue not a religious one) and genocides are taking place everywhere, partially because the Holocaust is not taught as a real lesson with "if you start here you'll feel like crap when you get to here" but as "people are monsters who hate Jews, if you don't hate Jews you won't be a monster."
We're nerds and a documentary on the subject has been directed at us, check out "Mr.Death" by Errol Morris (The best documentarian I've ever seen, his film "Fog of War" conflicted strongly with my liberalism and pacifism but was very enlightening). -
Re:hyphenation
Firefox is an airplane.....in Soviet Russia, no less.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083943/
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Jack Thompson - not the Australian
This article takes a whole new meaning if you are from Australia. Its kind of like saying Mick Dundee is sueing MS. (BTW - Australian Jack lives here http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0860233/
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Ob:Evolution
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Re:So using this logic....
...the "No Work" database. "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a d..."
Can anyone see the LIGHT in here? Just go on repeat that hypnotizing mantra "work work work work work work work
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John Hammond...
...have you been splicing in frog DNA again? Naughty naughty.
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Freeze Frame
This reminds me of the film Freeze Frame. It's about a man named Sean Veil who gets framed for a murder, and after he is acquitted he dedicates his life to recording every single moment of his life on tape. I won't spoil the rest, but I thought it was a great film (and appropriate for this subject matter)
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reminds me of a movie
...called freeze frame:
quoted from the imdb summary at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363095/
"Sean Veil is an ultra paranoid murder suspect who takes to filming himself round the clock to provide an alibi..."
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Re:Shouldn't we all stop fighting?
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Re:Shouldn't we all stop fighting?
I wonder why nobody has made it into a movie yet, seeing as the book was published as early as 1949(!)
if you mean 1984, do a trivial search before talking garbage: 1984 -
Re:Shouldn't we all stop fighting?
I wonder why nobody has made it into a movie yet, seeing as the book was published as early as 1949(!).
It has been made into a movie - multiple times, in fact: a version in 1956, a made-for-TV version in 1965, a version actually released in 1984, and yet another version currently in development, to come out in 2009. -
Re:Shouldn't we all stop fighting?
I wonder why nobody has made it into a movie yet, seeing as the book was published as early as 1949(!).
It has been made into a movie - multiple times, in fact: a version in 1956, a made-for-TV version in 1965, a version actually released in 1984, and yet another version currently in development, to come out in 2009. -
Re:Shouldn't we all stop fighting?
I wonder why nobody has made it into a movie yet, seeing as the book was published as early as 1949(!).
It has been made into a movie - multiple times, in fact: a version in 1956, a made-for-TV version in 1965, a version actually released in 1984, and yet another version currently in development, to come out in 2009. -
Re:Shouldn't we all stop fighting?
I wonder why nobody has made it into a movie yet, seeing as the book was published as early as 1949(!).
It has been made into a movie - multiple times, in fact: a version in 1956, a made-for-TV version in 1965, a version actually released in 1984, and yet another version currently in development, to come out in 2009. -
Re:State enforced vs Coorperation enforced
You're obviously not thinking this through, or aren't living in America.
I am living in germany and I am very happy with the state enforced rating system over here.
The publisher can decide if they want to either live without WalMart, or make changes.
What you don't understand is that missing out the big retails can mean the death of a game company. If ESRB decides to give your game an AO, you have lost and can do nothing against it, its after all "voluntary". However it is still de facto censorship, just because its not written in law doesn't mean that it changes the effect of it, if the state actively censors or a private company gives you an AO isn't all that difference when the effect is the same. If you let the censorship be controlled by private companies, the big ones will sooner or later abuse their power to keep the smaller ones out, its a cartel and if you are not with them, then you might have a big issue. I am not saying that this is currently the case with the ESRB, if on the other side I belelive the movie This Film Is Not Yet Rated it seems to be the case with the MPAA.
And by the way, whats up with porn in the USA? Unless I am mistaken a child belove 18 is not allowed to buy one? Is that right? Isn't that a violation of the first amendment? How would a mandatory rating system be different?
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Re:No Contest
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Re:No Contest
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Bowie is the Decider
I think we all know that the winner of this format war will be whoever releases Labryinth first. Dance, magic dance!
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One line of dialogue
In the movie Thank You for Smoking the lobbyist goes to Hollywood to talk to an agent about placing cigarettes in movies. The agent mentions a screenplay set on a space station and suggests a scene with the main characters smoking cigarettes after sex.
The lobbyist says: "Sounds great! But wouldn't smoking in an all oxygen environment be dangerous?"
The agent responds: "I guess so. But it's an easy fix. Just one line of dialogue, 'Thank God they invented the whatchamacallit device.'"
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To quote a recent movie...
"ENGLAND PREVAILS!" (V for Vendetta in case you're curious...)
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Re:amusing
I don't know why use of "the" here amuses me so much, but it makes the author seem very unfamiliar with the companies and products they are writing about.
I thought the author was insinuating that Mozilla was putting its money into the 1980's, Soviet, thought-controlled, mach 6 capable, stealth fighter piloted by Clint Eastwood. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083943/plotsummary -
Re:Killer Mom ?
Go watch "Dexter" for that sort of father-son relationship: http://imdb.com/title/tt0773262/
