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Machinima Festival and News
Hugh Hancock writes: "Machinima (real-time 3D film-making in game engines, what used to be called 'Quake Movies') has a bit of a grab-bag day today -- the New York Times (registration, blah) is running an article on it, prompted by the announcement of the first Machinima-only film festival, sponsored by NVidia!"
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Brilliant article. Very intrerresting and has me interrested in looking for such films. It seems I'll reopen my Quake 1 box soon.
Very true. Every once in a while it seems there is a good reason to reopen an old game. I just got back into Fallout 2.
Stop thinking 9/11
Oh great... here we go...
and give the rest of the world a rest and stop adding terrorist consipiracies and references to everything you write.
Um. Correct me if I'm wrong but the word terrorist is not synonymous with "Evil foreigners that we must defend ourselves against since that tragic day... almost a year ago... *sniff*... I remember when..."
From where I'm sitting you were the first and only person to bring 9/11 into the mix (and after a good opening point). Excuse me if I'm too blunt but that is a spin on an article that would make Jon Katz green with envy.
FYI: There had been terrorist attacks before 9/11/2001. Several against US interests (USS Cole, African Embassy bombings, and the Riyadh Marine barracks just to name the most recent) and many more against others. Americans died over Lockerbie. Americans died along with people of all nationalities.
that it took you two towers and the death thousands of rich americans to realize the horror of MILLIONS of poor 3rdworld habitants.
Except for the hundreds of thousands of Americans who have worked in 3rd World debt relief, AIDS medication relief, anti-globalization movements, humanitarian groups, Red Cross, missionary groups, Greenpeace, etc etc.
This seems to be the same argument against "American Movies" when they really mean "Hollywood big budget movies". "There are no good American film makers"... except for Steven Soderburgh, David Lynch, Jim Jarmush, Spike Lee, John Singleton, the Hughes Brothers, the Coen Brothers, Michael Mann, Marion Herron, Larry Clark, etc.
Everyone who criticizes a country always seems to do it based off of some comical stereotype of the nation. Like England is just a bunch of chinless wonders walking around with Pith helmets and monocles or a bunch of mindless footie hooligans.
Sometimes, I think that americans... Here you go off on a tirade that seems to stem from your own overexposure to the media. Granted, you watch FoxNews for an hour and it gets hard to stomach but then, and this is the neat thing about modern technology, you can turn it off. Like hitting the Back button to get out of the article.
I'd like to have someone prove me wrong on this... and someone who will say other things than "F*** YOU, A**HOLE."
I hope I've been cordial in my response.
But maybe that changed with 9/11, and you people finally fell back from your cloud.
Again, the popular assumption that American == worldless slob... except for all of those millions of Americans who aren't. I spent yesterday reading some facinating stuff on Dayan and Amer after catching a program on the Six Day War... oh wait, I forgot I'm an American!
*Thinks* Ok, I spent yesterday getting schlitzed while masturbating over pictures of dead immigrant workers. This while setting about the destruction of Indonesia and holding back the cure for AIDS and cancer we've had but just never shared with the world.
Welcome to the real world.
Hmm. Never knew I had left.
What is music when you despise all sound?