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Feature-Length Matrix Spoof to be Released Soon
CrazyMFW writes "'The Helix Loaded', a feature length spoof of the Matrix, has been unveiled to coincide with the general release of The Matrix Revolutions. At LA screenings of the third matrix installment, customers are being handed CD-ROMS shaped like a Red Pill or a Blue Pill. The CD-ROM includes a teaser trailer as a quicktime movie, and directs users to the web site for The Helix. The teaser trailers can also be downloaded from the site. No release date is mentioned for the film, but it does promise several further teaser installments at 2 week intervals - so we should learn more in the next couple of months. From the brief clips it looks like they've done a good job imitating the Matrix CGI on a low-budget."
In the matwix, no one can hear you scweam.
They're called Matrix reloaded and Matrix revolutions.
That name is sure going to cause problems... Helix / Matrix, I don't really see the connection anyway.
I didn't paticularly enjoy the Fanimatrix, I just hope they can do better with this one. (and yes I know the fanimatrix isn't a spoof, but it was made by fans).
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bwhahahahahaha!
Oh wait. You weren't kidding.
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
what, are they oblong?
The blue pill trailer has less action, just to warn you all.
www.themeatrix.com
I'm watching their site crumble...
slashdotted after 2 comments... this really is getting out of hand
More tired jokes using bullet time camera tricks. Just what we need.
Let's talk about something more interesting like the return of the Rowdyruff Boys instead.
The Meattrix
"No release date is given" is because these guys are trying to sell DVDs of their crappy movie.
Let's face it, the true Helix requires no spoofing and will never stop rocking!
I don't want to be here.
I really hate signatures, but go to my website.
Parodies only really work if the stuff is popular. But with the three episodes of the Matrix as well as that Animatrix DVD I think most people have had their fill already. It's no Star Wars.
Try not. Do or do not, there is no try.
-- Dr. Spock, stardate 2822-3.
While it's cool to see what amatures can do on a low budget I haven't seen any fan spoofs of the matrix that are actually funny. Matrix ping pong got a laugh out of me though.
but.. but.. Matrix Revolutions opened up a few days ago..
Trolling is a art,
"Unfortunately, no one can be shown what the helix is.... Because the site has been slashdotted!"
"From the brief clips it looks like they've done a good job imitating the Matrix CGI on a low-budget"
Clearly this low budget also extends to their webserver. Mirror anyone?
But either way, props to the creators if the CGI is that good.
Don't look if you didn't see Reloaded movie. here
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that's probably too much to ask
Making that joke is way too important to leave it to the other 400 people we know are going to do it as well. Thank god for you.
Well.
Looks nice, but I'm pretty sure that this will be even better: www.starwreck.com
V.
How many copied scenes of Dragon Ball Z were there in Reloaded and Revolutions ?
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Too many. The twins with blazing hair in Reloaded. The flying karate scenes in Revolutions.
The Wachowski brothers love DragonBall Z.
I too was addicted to it until the maginboo series ended it
The Vegita,Napa takeover of Earth original was amazing anime. Should have got some awards .
Without you, that wonderfully crafted joke would not have brightened my day. Thank you, my friend, for the slashdotting joke.
"customers are being handed CD-ROMS shaped like a Red Pill or a Blue Pill."
Who will buy me a new cdrom-drive when these "oval, pill shaped CD-ROMS" destroy my current one?
Sheeeeet! Does Ceren carry a gun? I think NOT! My new dreamgirl is a hillbilly hosemonster from West Virginia who takes it in the ass. And she's a soldier, too!
Slightly offtopic, but funny and certainly applicable to this message board...
Last night when I went to see Matrix Revolutions, they aired the typical "please don't pirate movies" ad, but it was upside down and played in reverse (including the sound). All the rest of the ads were normal, so it's obvious that someone that worked at the theater was making a point.
The audience was about 1/2 full and just about everyone was high school senior (or maybe college) crowd excepting a few of us 30-somethings. But everyone was laughing and found it highly amusing (perhaps more so than the movie itself).
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If you don't like it, ignore it. All negative mods are meta-moderated 'unfair'. ALL OF THEM.
Great, kill the best feature of the system. Believe it or not, some of us actually perform post-moderation adjustments on moderated posts. Negative moderations are just as helpful as positive. If *YOU* dont like negative mods then go into your options and give Flamebait+1 Offtopic+1 etc.
Who do you think you are? David Eggers?
No need for this, when Computer Boy has been out for several years. ("Eat gun!")
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a skull.
All you insensitive clods slashdotted them, what do you think this is going to do to them, huh?? Now no one can get to the site! And dont give me any of that google cache crap either. Click Responsibly people.
Done a good job of imitating the CGI Graphics of the Matrix on a low budget? Maybe the original Matrix was superb, but look at the second one--for example, the fight scene involving Neo rising up with many Agent Smiths around him--this is one of the (many) scenes in Reloaded where they actually used modified graphics from the video game, and thus the graphics were terrible in some parts of the movie.
I certainly hope that they'll do better CGI work in Revolutions which I haven't seen, because it seems like they rushed it to market just to take advantage of the first two's success.
And, I bet you, these Waichovski, or whatever they are, these guys are in it to make moolah--soon we will be hearing about "The Matrix Beginnings" and some story will come out to precede the original story of the Matrix. Just watch, it'll happen. They're doing it with LOTR, the Hobbit will be released after the Trilogy is complete, and then from there they may release further titles, and even I've heard rumors of fan-fiction based movies being released.
Same thing will happen to the Matrix saga, and it will become a giant, commercialized, consumerist-mushy mess.
because their server has been turned into slag by a good slashdotting.
lol
http://www.thehelixnevertobeloaded.com
eikimartinson.com
while Neo were in the computer city, with all the cable like octopus, I am thinking, he is looking for the power plug. Neo, unplug the computer city, and all the light dies. yeah.
http://www.ifilm.com/filmdetail?ifilmid=115368
the main site: http://www.geocities.com/cobweb_films/
It's a bit lengthy but the humor is precious.
"Do you know who this is, Neo?"
"Mom?"
"Guess again Neo."
"... Mom?"
"Can you drive that thing?"
"Not yet... Operator! I need a program for an '82 Subaru Swift!"
Another recently released parody trailer is Matrix Unravelled. Some nice special effects shots, and the performance by "Bill" the Architect is just spot-on.
I mean, post.
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
At the end of Matrix Re-Boot, Dot dies.
You're not ugly, but you're not really all that. You're just one of the only women most people at the conference have seen, outside of their mothers.
Most PC users will just give up trying to watch the trailer after Quicktime crashes on them over and over, but the Mac users that slide the pill-shaped CDs into their slot load drives are the ones who are really going to have a fit.
They can read "The Helix has you" in nice, blurry, anti-aliased text, as the CD goes "ker plunk" and plugs up the CD drive.
Mod points should be to mod good posts UP where they can be seen. Otherwise, you're just wasting your energy pushing turds below the water. And the trolls eat up ANY recognition they get.
What part of "read above score 0" don't you get?!!!
it is in your mind.
"There is no slashdotting"
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See definition two
what?
Not for me.
I do not understand why this was modded OT as it is an excellent example of kitsch and nihilism. Isn't that what 'The Matrix' was all about, and isn't a spoof of The Matrix an excellent example of kitsch and nihilism that existed in the original 'The MAtrix'... and aren't the poor sequels of 'The Matrix' the ultimate example of kitsch and nihilism?
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Once upon a time, in the early 90s, the term *was* CGI: Computer Generated Images, or Computer Generated Imagery. Only circa 1996 did I start hearing people refer to computer graphics for movies as "CG."
I knew of CGI as a movie acronym long before I knew of CGI as a Web programming acronym -- and I was writing CGI guestbook applications in 1995, using C and printf/getenv. So I think the Common Gateway Interface would lose in any sort of chronological pissing contest.
I've got a torrent up of one of the trailers (blue pill) in quicktime.
f inal.mov.torrent
http://shithole.penix.net/~spartan/blue_pill_web_
Have fun.
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lds
Computer Generated Imagery
It's Computer Generated Imagery. That what it's always meant. Always. Even back when SGI hardware was doing most of the CGI.
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You might want to look things up before you post... but then, this is
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Computer Generated Images
Don't mind Lysol, he can't help himself. He is a Computer Generated Ignoramous.
Vanilla Ice is in the movie. BTW, the movie looks like crap.
.smell my feet.
Red pill torrent: http://www.filerush.com/torrents/red_pill_web_fina l.mov.torrent
What it stands for is Computer Generated Imagery. C.G.I.
Red Pill Torrent link: http://www.filerush.com/torrents/red_pill_web_fina l.mov.torrent
All the parody you need is here
I worked on the movie, and let me tell you... if you liked the Matrix series, you'll love this movie - the CGI is TOP NOTCH for the budget, the acting and writing is great, and the humor overall is really whacked! Because it's a satire, you can't take it too seriously, but man is it wild!
The cast and crew is incredible, and we were laughing our asses off during production, because some of the gags were so funny!
someone care to host the file somewhere?
grep >= ! == $your
There is no 'I'-word in COMPUTER GRAPHICS or COMPUTER GRAPHICS ANIMATION!
No..... but there is in COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGERY
Why can't one acronym have more than one meaning?
I'll have something intelligent to add one of these days...
Incidentally, the funniest "spoof" I've seen of the Matrix is the bastardization that resides on detonate.net. Very funny but the humour is a bit nerdy so don't go pasting that link to all of your "normal" (read: not computer nerd) friends - they won't laugh. I know, I've tried. I got a lot of "Why is this one funny?" type questions.
n/t
THIS THING CAN TURN ON A DIME, MACROSSZERO STYLE ALSO FUCK BETA, ~NYORON
it was Computer Generated Image before there was a Common Gateway Interface.
You are dumber the salt.
There, had to say it.
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While I'm not a huge fan of all the genre has been able to produce, I thought Hellsing and Scrapped Princess were worth watching.
iro.ny \'i--r*-ne-\ n [L ironia, fr. Gk eiro-nia, fr. eiro-n dissembler] : A cow wearing a presumably leather trenchcoat...
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
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And here I thought CGI stood for Completely Gullible and Ignorant
This term has been used for decades in the graphics industry.
Mad Hatter
About seven years ago, DC Comics created a new imprint specifically for SF-based comic books. This imprint was called HELIX, and its only book to make a significant dent in the landscape was Warren Ellis' TRANSMETROPOLITAN.
However, this imprint was originally to be called MATRIX, until they were told that the name was registered in the Entertainment space already. Seven years ago - wonder who had that name locked up?
R David Francis
Took me about 2 minutes to download the 16MB trailer via the torrent.
New Movie Takes Down Factory Farms
You know the scene: Life seems basically normal until, one day, a mysterious stranger contacts you and tells you your whole existence is a lie. You have two options: red pill or blue pill. Sound familiar? That's right, it's the plot of "The Meatrix" (no, that's not a typo), in which moopheus the cow shows Leo, the pig protagonist (think Keanu Reeves with a curlier tail), that idyllic life on the family farm is a sham. The stark reality involves factory farms, massive pollution, high doses of antibiotics, and a few rebel farm animals in trench coats. Catch the latest short eco-flick by Free Range Graphics, on the Grist Magazine website.
Meat tastes good, alright. I'm not exactly sure where in that movie you saw anything either indicating otherwise, or promoting that 'soy meat' shit.
Doesn't mean we should accept buying industrialized crap like a bunch of obedient sheep, either. I find it shocking that in this country you can get sick from meat and eggs if you eat them too rare. Exactly when did the US become a third world country? Never? Good, I agree. So where's our first world food please? Oooh, but lookie, where to find that is exactly what this site is telling you! And the nice thing is, if you actually enjoy eating shit, you can go on doing so by simply not caring, isn't that cool?
Now bugger off and let those who care about what they put in their mouth appreciate the information, thank you.
Yeah, yeah, -1 offtopic unpatriotic commie, I know, boo hiss.
-- B.
This sig does in fact not have the property it claims not to have.
Here's the blue pill torrent link: http://www.filerush.com/torrents/blue_pill_web_fin al.mov.torrent
This is one of the times I wished Slashdot had a (-1: Stupid) or (-1: Wrong) moderation. I'll leave it to the other comments to explain why.
"There, had to say it."
No, you didn't. What you had to say was "What's the I in CGI stand for?
Here's a list of probelms with his post:
- He assumes acronyms can only be used once.
- The term CGI wasn't born from some misuse of a term, it's been around since the late 80's.
- He's ranting without being educated on the topic.
- His point, even if it was valid, wasn't worth ranting about. In most contexts, it's hard to confuse rendered imagery with a gateway interface.
- His whole reason for posting this is to sound intelligent. It's not because there's really any problem with the term CGI being used the way it was.
- Loudmouthed dumbfucks like this shouldn't have been modded up in the first place.
"There is no 'I'-word in COMPUTER GRAPHICS or COMPUTER GRAPHICS ANIMATION!"
Can somebody pls explain to me how this was modded as +5? Since when is the usage of acronymns controversial?
"Derp de derp."
I tried forever to find this on DVD (they promised sales of it at one point). Does anyone know if I can purchase the Computer Boy spoof on DVD? Thanks in advance!
A couple years back people were re-working The Phantom Menance for a more satisfying result (read my lips: no Jar-Jar). This is feasible with the Mac iMedia suite and PC equivalents. They had posted these on the web. LucasFilm initially sounded flattered, then cracked down on copyright.
The Matrix and Rings triologies are candidates for fan's intepretations.
This is not off topic. Read the story is about a matrix spoof. Read this posts parents. If necessary look up the meaning of 'kitsch' or 'nihilism' in a dictionary. This is incredibly insightful.
If you still think this is off-topic please end your life right now and spare humanity.
Back in the day CG was a Character Generator, generally referring to an old piece of HW that did this or some of the (then) newer software which drastically simplified this task. I would always get confused by people referring to computer graphics as CG...
"pls explain to me how this was modded as +5?"
He was modded up so we can all laugh at him.
We're all forgetting nvidia's Cg, which actually stands for C for Graphics, and is a language for programming pixel and vertex shaders.
Maybe we need some new acronyms...
-S
The open standards version of RealPlayer is called Helix.
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CGI = Computer Generated Imagery ?
Suddenly I have a desire for gummy bears.
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CD-ROMS shaped like a Red Pill or a Blue Pill.
Uhhm. Wouldn't they all have to be pretty much shaped like a flat circular disk to work?
Don't label something "offtopic" unless you know the topic well enough to tell what's on topic.
i'd give you a mod point if i had one. sorry no witty tales of me' own, we don't get these ads in the UK (yet, afaik).
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...I'm not the only one who hated Akira!?
STOP MISUSING APOSTROPHES, YOU MORONS!!!
You can watch it at the URLs above or maybe even buy a DVD from somewhere.
- Serge
Matrix 2 and 3 were shot as a single production, but there was ample time for post production, including CG rendering, to take longer for Revolutions.
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What is the conceptual difference between Cg and Renderman?
Will I retire or break 10K?
How can you say one movie is better than the other? That is like saying one part of LoTR is better than the other part. They are the same damn story, same damn book/movie.
If the Matrix was one six hour long epic, you wouldn't be saying it sucked, now would you?
People like this say part 2 and 3 sucked because it wasn't as impressive as the first. Of course not! The first was exactly that. The first of it's kind. People like this go into the theater expecting to be just as shocked/excited/whatever as they were when the first movie came out, and that is most certainly the worst mindset to be in when you go into a movie like this.
For those of you who have not seen Reloaded or Revolutions.. or both.. please go into the movie knowing that is a continuation of the story, NOT a god damn sequel. You knew this going into LoTR - Two Towers, so just keep in that frame of mind for these films.
Insert clever one liner here.
/. damn you meddling kids.........
If it doesn't contain a dying scene directed so terribly slow and boring that the whole audience goes "just die for christsakes!", it isn't a good spoof! :-)
(You have to see Revolutions to get this. On the other hand, please don't!)
Looks like they need to upgrade to "The Helix, Revolutions" to handle the traffic. They should have known better.
Actually, I think it should be (+5: Stupid) or (+5: wrong) - that way, people will get to see these. if it's -1, they'd dissapear and we'd lose a few laughs.
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"Uhhm. Wouldn't they all have to be pretty much shaped like a flat circular disk to work?"
Nope. Flat, yes, circular, no. You've never seen the novelty discs shaped like US states, the maple leaf etc? The data track only inhabits the inner part where there are no interruptions, picture a square with a circle inscribed inside it, touching all 4 sides: the "corners" would have no data. Oh yeah, they should be more or less balanced too, or I bet they'd cause wear on your CD player motor if you played them a lot. Which is unlikely considering the stupid crap that tends to be on novelty-shaped CD's...
Freedom: "I won't!"
If you're going to write, write well. Words might flirt, but they won't not up for a casual noun -- so don't use hyphens to roofie them together. So-called compound nouns are either married or celibate (e.g. bedchamber, the middle class), and hyphen hook ups should only sire adjectives (e.g. a middle-class lifestyle in a low-rent crackhouse/crack house). Please, please, please use that college copy of Strunk and White.
You never know who will get one.
There's a pretty sweet move called the Helix in whitewater play boating. It almost looks like a move you'd see in the matrix with wire stunts. Pics and a video here:
e s/ helix.htm
http://www.stevefisher.net/AB%20secondary%20pag
Cool stuff, though it probably won't interest those not into kayaking.
J
...wait through the entire heartfelt add..then...when the theatre is in shock and silenced from the horrible truths that are exposed a message will fill the screen:
"Stop Pirates"
At that point, in your best pirate voice say, "Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrr"
Good times.
Life is like pants... fit in or you don't fit in.
A bunch of people too dumb to make a real movie or actually understand the Matrix are just going to try and cash in on the matrix buzz.
But there is another kind of evil that we must fear most... and that is the indifference of good men.
Having worked at a movie theater before and having spliced film at said theater before, I can tell you that the more likely cause was that they didn't screen/run it through first. There are 4 different ways you can splice the film together, only 1 of them is correct.
Funny that it should happen to that trailer, but by no means consider it intentional.
Waichovski? Don't be a moron.
the fight scene involving Neo rising up with many Agent Smiths around him--this is one of the (many) scenes in Reloaded where they actually used modified graphics from the video game, and thus the graphics were terrible in some parts of the movie.
No, they didn't. Those weren't modified graphics from the videogame. Who in the hell modded you up? At most, the game creators used very low-res textures that the ESC used, but ESC had almost microscopic laser scanners to create that scene.
Troll a little better next time.
"Sufferin' succotash."
Oh man, this parody shared too much with the movie(s) it was making fun of...poor script, outdone only by the god-awful acting (that's what you get when you use family and friends). The "special effects" basically amounted to the worst blue-screen compositing work I've ever seen, which was probably the funniest part of the parody. Nice try, I could tell there was a lot of effort put into it, but where's the funny? This is part of that 800MB of data generated per person this year that would have been better left ungenerated.
I was just thinking this last night, what with the reviews of the new film being so bad an' all... One day i know someone will get the spoof right - i want to see the dialogue properly sent up, not the special effects - which are easy to mimick without much wit. Also what we need is a matrix spoof review site/centre with ratings to sort the wheat from the chaff, the funny from the sad and geeky.. anyone got one? want to make one? :p there's worse things on the net :p
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Clearly, i *can* say i liked part 2 of LOTR more than part 1 (which i didn't btw, despite what IMDB says about their relative rankings; i digress). Just as i can say i liked the beginning of a book more than the end.
There's no reason why the 2nd or 3rd parts of a trilogy can't be as or more exciting than the 1st - actually, from a dramatic point of view, the 2nd part *should* be the most exciting becuse you've got the scene set, characters defined and can go for it with the 'meat' of your story.. this is nicely demonstrated by for example Star Wars part2 - Empire Strikes Back, which i understand is often regarded as the best of the set.
The problem with the Matrix, IMHO, is that 1) the Wachowski brothers are not good storytellers, simple as that and 2) it wasn't originally meant to continue past the end of the 1st film... contrast again with LOTR, which of course *was* always meant to be in 3 and more importantly has been written with fantastic (excuse the pun) love for the material and respect for the audience.
I we could just say you like the Matrix and i like LOTR, and wave our willies around, lol. But the facts speak for themselves.. if people are saying Matrix pt3 was bad, they thought it was bad, and it was in fact, bad. No amount of justification gets around that.
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You might want to check this one out aswell... pretty funny stuff -> link
There's another spoof of the original Matrix movie called "Computer Boy". It's pretty funny. It was obviously filmed in Britain and the lead actor is often dead-on at mocking yet capturing Keanu Reeves simultaneously. My favorite part is the spoof of the duel between Neo and Morpheus. Neo proves to have been a fast learner. Be sure and fast-forward through the scene with the ducks. Time and budget were lacking for the part where Neo is shown encased in the pod with "a tube sticking out of his ass", so they filled it with footage of ducks swimming in a pond! Really pointless and drawn out so skip it.
Look for Computer Boy at ifilm.com. The geocities site they mention was unavailable when I posted this bit.
In principio erat Verbum.
You are mistaken. CG stands for, or a least it stood for, Character Generator when used in reference to film and video. Think Chyron, Abekas, etc. CGI is the acronym for Computer Graphic Imagery.
If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
--Will Rogers
Am I the only one stoked about Rob Van Winkle (aka Vanilla Ice) having a starring role in this parody of the Matrix?
Sure, the Matrix was rife for parody. I think that someone with a dry wit, lots of sarcasm and an appreciation for twisting and pruning bits here and there could make a sublime parody of the Matrix. You play the characters more to their cliches, you put in a few visual jokes, and you maginify the things that you thought were just stupid and particularly deserving of insult and carry it to a point where it doesn't become simply a blip, but a gag.
My problem with what seems to be teh state of mass consumer parody was epitomized by the rather horrid Not Another Teen Movie, which I thought had an excellent genre to make fun of, but their aside gross out gags and overt ploys really sort of ruined the whole image of the thing. I mean, I always think that parody should follow the object that is being mocked and with a sense of irony just carry itself in a way that exposes the foibles of the film or even in a way that takes those same elements and blows them up. To be fair to teh movie I just mentined I felt that the airport scene with Molly Ringwald was fairly decent, that's more in line with what I'm tlaking about. But too often these sorts of things just rely on teh same kind of humor that permeates other forms of comey and doesn't really serve to mirror the chosen genre but to simply use teh film being parodied as a set piece for unintelligible drivel that's so hilarious in frat houses and teen age hangouts throughout the United States.
Seriously, these people are tying to sell a DVD to cash in on the popularity of the Matrix films, it doesn't really seem like they're trying to say that much. Oh yeah, and tot he AC who said that their film was laugh out loud funny, while I'm not going to shell out $20 to find out, since yours would not be the most glowing endorsement of teh film (first because we don't know who you are, and second you have a vested interest in teh product which you are touting).
Or maybe I'm just a snob.
We were slashdotted... thx guyz trailers will be back up when we get our host on ball.
Yarrr, any non-bt mirrors out there?
Your hair look like poop, Bob! - Wanker.
To all people who care about about the usage of CGI:
To you, does PC mean Personal Computer or Political Correctness?
... has a really crappy end.
Portable versions of Firefox, GIMP, LibreOffice, etc
Cg is a language for writing shaders
that run in hardware on your nvidia graphics cards, for use in opengl games.
Renderman is the offline rendering technology
run on server-farms to render things like 'finding nemo'.
Hamsters are at least as feathery as penguins. HamLix
Wait a minute, I thought Matrix Revolutions was a parody of the matrix. Do we really need another?
-> Fritz
Spooooon!!!!!
a rewritten script. of course i wouldn't want to see that made necessarily :)
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if so... I say we watch the film...then make our comments. I have read the script via friend of friendster... much to my delight if the film turns out like the script they will have made a wacky intelligent comedy with a deep rooted and often insightful poke at commercialism and the mythos that drew us all to the Matrix in the first place. Much to be said there, for a sense of humor is really what keeps all of us from going insane and shooting eachother. Don't fret greedy people aren't the only people left in Hollywood. being an LA rat myself cheers to the indi with purpose! i'd give em twenty bucks just for the sheer effort. The thing looks pretty damn good, except for the dark club scene...hope thats just a compression thing.
Renderman has a pixel shader language as well. Is there any fundamental design difference that makes Cg shader language theoretically better or worse than Renderman shader language for some applications? Is there a reason why a shader written in Renderman can't be compiled to the same sort of bytecode that Cg implementations use? Last time Cg was discussed on Slashdot, this question went unanswered.
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What is the Helix?
Manipulate the moderator system! Mod someone as "overrated" today.
I love how Slashdot articles lead me to so many different sites. I found The Meatrix hilarious. It's great that I could laugh at the parody, instead of being overcome with helpless rage as I usually am at this vicious insanity of factory farming.
I stopped eating meat 12 years ago, and I won't start again until I can get something killed quickly (like, say, a deer hit by a proficient hunter). My only regret is that I'm STILL subsidizing this practice, through government tax policy, direct government subsidies, grazing on government lands, and the government's refusal to protect our land and water.
Some samples of CGI effects from The Helix as well as one of the trailers can be found at http://www.hallofshadows.com/Helix/list.htm .
I would like to apologize to any and all slashdot members about the slow performance of thehelixloaded.com, Server Beach our host LIED to us (imagine that) saying they could and would meet ALL our bandwidth needs we WARNED them that we projected 7 million + unique visitors in a verrry short period of time. we had their TOP plan of a linux ppower server with 900GB of bandwidth per month... You would thinkk this sufficient... and so what if we run it out in 1 week or 2 weeks? Wouldnt any NORMAL hosting company at this level give you ALL the transfer you needed then clean up after by charging us the overage? $1 per GB? $5 per GB? which we dont mind paying... NO, SERVERBEACH does it like this... 900GB (man thats alot of bandwidth isnt it?) a month divided by 30 days... gives you 30GB+ a day. Maximum /. made our server whimper at 35GB on friday Nov 7th Our only recourse so that the site could serve as many people as possible was to pull the trailers as this was the center of the drain. for this We humbly apoplogize. by wednesday maybe even tuesday of next week we will be hosted on RACKSPACE who has ASSURED us that we will be given ONE PH@T ass Pipe and the machines to serve it up with whipped cream. Please... someone, anyone, buy the guys at serverbeach a brain... somethin they can all use and access amongst themselves it would still be better than using the twinkie they have now for a brain
Thankx guyz fer makin our launch fun!
Kinetic2K
Webmaster and Web Designer
TheHelixLoaded.com
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Definition of a twinkie
Main Entry: 1twinkie
Pronunciation: 'twi[ng]k-ee
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): twinkled; twinkling /-k(&-)li[ng]/
Etymology: Middle English, from Old Chicago twinclian; akin to Middle High German zwinken to twink
Date: before 12th century
intransitive senses
1 : that which is worse than a newbie
2 : some one who just figured out that the computer has an off switch or on switch
3 : Worse and lower than a Mr know it all Lamer
4 : One whos only claim to fame is that "My Mom, bought me this really cool Hosting company fer xMas"
I know it's a joke but it should be +5i so that it is modded up for people to see but the poster doesn't get the corresponding karma so as not to encourage them to post stupid/wrong things.
"The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers." Bill Gates,
THE HELIX LOADED is back up with Newer, faster, BEFFIER servers! The trailers are BACK and we are taking Pre Order Sales of the DVD which will start shipping in December! new content and fun added! Check it out!!! FLASHcrowds welcome...