Keep hitting the video "button" at 1:16 so you get a sort of.gif loop. Those now more artificial looking blinking eyes are hilarious! Works at various other spots too, but that's my fav. Basically, since the video and/or software that does the capture makes colors and fine details "off", turning her into a less realistically moving picture is more entertaining than watching the real + smudge effect we were seeing at first.
This "proprietary software" sounds a lot like a farking video camera with "makeup mode". I mean, how is it so different from video that has been digitally edited for tweakage??? If it starts with a real actor/actress, requires filming, and the end product is 99% (your definition on percentage may vary from mine) from the "film"... where is all this supposed CG??
It's their way to give you the same music they are already pushing, changing the middle man, and getting guaranteed money every month. It's the typical business model... fuck the consumer. Nope, how about 25 cent songs on the download with no DRM. That sounds more reasonable to me.
From my impression, these guys had potential to make a great game. But what happened is what never happens to Blizzard. Apparently they had to release the game before it was done.
This means they fell for the trap that is affecting a huge amount of software devs and software companies out there. The MS effect. Make a product that "promises" to be bigger and better than the competition, and then lose your ability to create a simple product that is codeable in a short amount of time... and turns into unpolished bloatware. That kind of software is always crap to everybody but the bleeding edge types or the devs themselves. From their perspective, it's an inch away from being perfect. In reality, it's never going to be right.
Yeah, I used to be a reality Nazi. Touchups were the most evil thing I could think of (well relatively speaking). But then I tried the red-eye option on some digital photos one day for kicks, and I realized something. The altered picture was MORE LIKE REAL LIFE than the original picture!
This brought my snobby, hardass opinion on reality crashing down. And it just meant that I was taking for granted that the pictures I looked at were "real", when in reality they were just close. And when you take a picture of somebody blinking or making some god awful gesture that is uncharacteristic of the real person, you should keep in mind that a snapshot is simply that... reality is in motion.
So what this means for me personally is that while I still hate the idea of photochopping stuff and passing it off as real, I do appreciate the exact and difficult art of getting colors, lighting, and contrasts right so that a picture is closer to real life. And in closing I should mention that bad photochops sure are fun to point and laugh at!
Probably works great... until one of the guys that helped develop the software let some info leak. Or some hacker types decide to find out how the software works. I'm afraid nothing can be 100% secure.
Captain type says, "Quick [insert engineer/techie name], we need that alternate universe drive moving us NOW! We have to complete this mission!"
Engineer/techi says, "I know Cap'n, but if I push any more power to the [insert fictional controller/conduit name], the drive could blow!"
Captain type grimaces and replies, "Well that won't matter in 60 seconds when the [insert fictional badguys] 2nd attack ship comes into range. Just do it!"
"Cap'n, we're already at 89% on the destroy universe probability meter! But at 91% it won't just be this universe... we could tear a hole in space-time and destroy all of them!", wails the already too busy keeping the universe intact to bother talking engie/techie.
The captain with sudden calm coming over his face responds, "Yeah, but 3/4 of them don't have stars anyway."
The techie incoherently mutters something about Slashdotters before saving everybody and everything ever with the punch of a few buttons and the twist of a wrist.
1. Because the US population is so spoiled we won't look past line one to find the US. And "US" is a hard string to search for on a website if you forget to use the case sensitive search option.;)
2. Or maybe b/c the US can't (yet) disqualify China for too much obvious cheating and bribery, so the next best thing is to list the US at the top. They should just put images of the Chinese girls falling on their butts during the recent gymnastic finals with a photochopped medal dangling from their necks. How did she get a bronze again??
Good argument, but I think the other guys have a good argument for physical modeling as well. Maybe I'm going one step further with physical testing, but I think it's related. I'll go to the Mythbusters example. On that show how often does a physical test reveal something completely overlooked in the sketch phase? All the time I think. It just seems like unless you have limitless imagination, i.e. you can write a super complicated software program with zero bugs and all errors trapped without testing, I just don't see how doing some physical testing can be bad.
I think Mythbusters is a nice example of how hands on is a good thing when it comes to this sort of thing. I can see it being helpful to a lot of people.
On the other hand personally, as much as I love to know how things work, I've never been one to like having to constantly jack with stuff... hardware or otherwise. Maybe I'm just lazy... but I'd rather read about it and do it on a computer if I can.
Sounds like great research. If anybody can do something smart when it comes to cool science projects, it's the plants and animals that are ALREADY doing it. Mother nature is a lot smarter than man, but maybe we can learn, once again, something from her, this time about photosynthesis.
I always liked Sega... seems like they always had quality products and good systems. Now if I could only find the power cord to my old Saturn I'd fire it up and play a few!
Yeah, but if you don't buy a coke every day for the rest of eternity, let's assume cokes never go up in price for fun, that's $.50 * infinity = you are a kazillionaire!
Tiny numbers over a huge amount of time always equal a big number but it never represents real life very well. Sure, it's 60 seconds of your time here and there. But how about less security up front, then you get your bank account and money stolen, your credit goes to hell, you lose your house, car, wife, and kids. That's only going to waste 2 hours a day for a week, 40 x 2 x 7 = $560! What a deal!
Hell, i wasn't even thinking. yeah, for the really important ones (your bank) make the answers impossible to guess if you want to be really secure. I'm serious... random strings of text for answers isn't a bad idea if you never forget your real password and you don't want it reset by a clever hacker-cracker type.
Honestly, I have. Not because I want kids to use drugs of any kind, I'm totally against it, but simply so that it's "fair". You would hope kids that want to take care of themselves would avoid the route to the Olympics then (just like anybody with a will to live without cauliflower ears avoids MMA sports). And then all the crazies can use drugs, cybernetic enhancements, and time travel to their hearts contents to go 1 mph faster in a sprint.
I really like watching the olympics, but I just hate the cheaters.
Eating grains (sugar) = smarts... that also must be why mice are so smart then. And Ants love sugar (think honeydew) so that's also why ants are so smart and termites, that eat hard to digest wood, are so dumb. Oh wait, what about dolphins or gorillas?
Talking about sugar and grains, seriously now, when did humans start getting cavities that rotted out their teeth and how does that factor into survival?
Yup, I had that same reaction to the original and to the mention of the clone wars. For me, I've just had to tell myself that non of these prequels count at all b/c they have surely ruined my original image of Star Wars. Just treat them as completely separate series... maybe a "what if" series, otherwise it's just going to ruin good memories.
Does it matter if it was fake? Umm, does it matter if you are trying to watch a UFC match and they sub in a little Street Fighter 2? Street Fighter 2 is great, but not UFC.
Announcer: "And here is GSP attempting to knock out Serra in the first round!!! watch the video (some CGI needed for clarity)"
Yeah, I can attest to this after Katrina hit Louisiana. Thank god for Texting... and I think the cell companies were kind and didn't even charge full price!:P
According to http://www.freedict.com/onldict/onldict.php there are at least one or two if not 3 other ways to say privacy. Lots of words in Japan are thrown away for the English version likely because of perceived coolness and nothing to do with the prior existence of the idea/concept/word.
Another semi-example would be some StarCraft fans that had coding knowledge and got together to make their own game, Strifeshadow. I remember talking to the lead designer, and he said it was very much a work of passion. It took tons of hours to complete. It turned out to be a really good game, but I don't think they got massive sales just due to low publicity.
One of the guys got a job with Blizzard's team shortly after if I recall.
Anyway, I guess my point is that they spent probably 2 years making this game with a team of 5 or 6 people. You probably don't need to waste your life with a vain hope, but if you can get something working and visible it will help your case.
Anything thing to consider is working for gaming companies has a reputation for sucking unless you have no personal life and don't care about work hours per week.
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Keep hitting the video "button" at 1:16 so you get a sort of .gif loop. Those now more artificial looking blinking eyes are hilarious! Works at various other spots too, but that's my fav. Basically, since the video and/or software that does the capture makes colors and fine details "off", turning her into a less realistically moving picture is more entertaining than watching the real + smudge effect we were seeing at first.
This "proprietary software" sounds a lot like a farking video camera with "makeup mode". I mean, how is it so different from video that has been digitally edited for tweakage??? If it starts with a real actor/actress, requires filming, and the end product is 99% (your definition on percentage may vary from mine) from the "film"... where is all this supposed CG??
It's their way to give you the same music they are already pushing, changing the middle man, and getting guaranteed money every month. It's the typical business model... fuck the consumer. Nope, how about 25 cent songs on the download with no DRM. That sounds more reasonable to me.
From my impression, these guys had potential to make a great game. But what happened is what never happens to Blizzard. Apparently they had to release the game before it was done.
This means they fell for the trap that is affecting a huge amount of software devs and software companies out there. The MS effect. Make a product that "promises" to be bigger and better than the competition, and then lose your ability to create a simple product that is codeable in a short amount of time... and turns into unpolished bloatware. That kind of software is always crap to everybody but the bleeding edge types or the devs themselves. From their perspective, it's an inch away from being perfect. In reality, it's never going to be right.
Yeah, I used to be a reality Nazi. Touchups were the most evil thing I could think of (well relatively speaking). But then I tried the red-eye option on some digital photos one day for kicks, and I realized something. The altered picture was MORE LIKE REAL LIFE than the original picture!
This brought my snobby, hardass opinion on reality crashing down. And it just meant that I was taking for granted that the pictures I looked at were "real", when in reality they were just close. And when you take a picture of somebody blinking or making some god awful gesture that is uncharacteristic of the real person, you should keep in mind that a snapshot is simply that... reality is in motion.
So what this means for me personally is that while I still hate the idea of photochopping stuff and passing it off as real, I do appreciate the exact and difficult art of getting colors, lighting, and contrasts right so that a picture is closer to real life. And in closing I should mention that bad photochops sure are fun to point and laugh at!
Probably works great... until one of the guys that helped develop the software let some info leak. Or some hacker types decide to find out how the software works. I'm afraid nothing can be 100% secure.
Captain type says, "Quick [insert engineer/techie name], we need that alternate universe drive moving us NOW! We have to complete this mission!"
Engineer/techi says, "I know Cap'n, but if I push any more power to the [insert fictional controller/conduit name], the drive could blow!"
Captain type grimaces and replies, "Well that won't matter in 60 seconds when the [insert fictional badguys] 2nd attack ship comes into range. Just do it!"
"Cap'n, we're already at 89% on the destroy universe probability meter! But at 91% it won't just be this universe... we could tear a hole in space-time and destroy all of them!", wails the already too busy keeping the universe intact to bother talking engie/techie.
The captain with sudden calm coming over his face responds, "Yeah, but 3/4 of them don't have stars anyway."
The techie incoherently mutters something about Slashdotters before saving everybody and everything ever with the punch of a few buttons and the twist of a wrist.
OT smartass answers
1. Because the US population is so spoiled we won't look past line one to find the US. And "US" is a hard string to search for on a website if you forget to use the case sensitive search option. ;)
2. Or maybe b/c the US can't (yet) disqualify China for too much obvious cheating and bribery, so the next best thing is to list the US at the top. They should just put images of the Chinese girls falling on their butts during the recent gymnastic finals with a photochopped medal dangling from their necks. How did she get a bronze again??
3. B/c spin is more fair than bribery.
Do I sound bitter?
Gorillas and ravens didn't have the alien intervention that we did.
Good argument, but I think the other guys have a good argument for physical modeling as well. Maybe I'm going one step further with physical testing, but I think it's related. I'll go to the Mythbusters example. On that show how often does a physical test reveal something completely overlooked in the sketch phase? All the time I think. It just seems like unless you have limitless imagination, i.e. you can write a super complicated software program with zero bugs and all errors trapped without testing, I just don't see how doing some physical testing can be bad.
I think Mythbusters is a nice example of how hands on is a good thing when it comes to this sort of thing. I can see it being helpful to a lot of people.
On the other hand personally, as much as I love to know how things work, I've never been one to like having to constantly jack with stuff... hardware or otherwise. Maybe I'm just lazy... but I'd rather read about it and do it on a computer if I can.
Sounds like great research. If anybody can do something smart when it comes to cool science projects, it's the plants and animals that are ALREADY doing it. Mother nature is a lot smarter than man, but maybe we can learn, once again, something from her, this time about photosynthesis.
I'm at a loss for words.... I can only say that I hope that was some sort of joke on their part, but I don't think it was.
Sounds better to me at a glance, although it's been a while since i played the old ones. If it encourages more tactics, then I'm all for it.
I always liked Sega... seems like they always had quality products and good systems. Now if I could only find the power cord to my old Saturn I'd fire it up and play a few!
"If you can't trust your people you've got problems", said the network cracker.
Yeah, but if you don't buy a coke every day for the rest of eternity, let's assume cokes never go up in price for fun, that's $.50 * infinity = you are a kazillionaire!
Tiny numbers over a huge amount of time always equal a big number but it never represents real life very well. Sure, it's 60 seconds of your time here and there. But how about less security up front, then you get your bank account and money stolen, your credit goes to hell, you lose your house, car, wife, and kids. That's only going to waste 2 hours a day for a week, 40 x 2 x 7 = $560! What a deal!
Hell, i wasn't even thinking. yeah, for the really important ones (your bank) make the answers impossible to guess if you want to be really secure. I'm serious... random strings of text for answers isn't a bad idea if you never forget your real password and you don't want it reset by a clever hacker-cracker type.
Honestly, I have. Not because I want kids to use drugs of any kind, I'm totally against it, but simply so that it's "fair". You would hope kids that want to take care of themselves would avoid the route to the Olympics then (just like anybody with a will to live without cauliflower ears avoids MMA sports). And then all the crazies can use drugs, cybernetic enhancements, and time travel to their hearts contents to go 1 mph faster in a sprint.
I really like watching the olympics, but I just hate the cheaters.
Eating grains (sugar) = smarts... that also must be why mice are so smart then. And Ants love sugar (think honeydew) so that's also why ants are so smart and termites, that eat hard to digest wood, are so dumb. Oh wait, what about dolphins or gorillas?
Talking about sugar and grains, seriously now, when did humans start getting cavities that rotted out their teeth and how does that factor into survival?
Yup, I had that same reaction to the original and to the mention of the clone wars. For me, I've just had to tell myself that non of these prequels count at all b/c they have surely ruined my original image of Star Wars. Just treat them as completely separate series... maybe a "what if" series, otherwise it's just going to ruin good memories.
Does it matter if it was fake? Umm, does it matter if you are trying to watch a UFC match and they sub in a little Street Fighter 2? Street Fighter 2 is great, but not UFC.
Announcer: "And here is GSP attempting to knock out Serra in the first round!!! watch the video (some CGI needed for clarity)"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnhwpNDiLa0&feature=related
Yeah, I can attest to this after Katrina hit Louisiana. Thank god for Texting... and I think the cell companies were kind and didn't even charge full price! :P
According to http://www.freedict.com/onldict/onldict.php there are at least one or two if not 3 other ways to say privacy. Lots of words in Japan are thrown away for the English version likely because of perceived coolness and nothing to do with the prior existence of the idea/concept/word.
puraibashi, naisho, puraivashi-, naimitsu, naishou
Anyway to generalize for a whole nation is crazy. Some places are probably different than others.
Another semi-example would be some StarCraft fans that had coding knowledge and got together to make their own game, Strifeshadow. I remember talking to the lead designer, and he said it was very much a work of passion. It took tons of hours to complete. It turned out to be a really good game, but I don't think they got massive sales just due to low publicity.
One of the guys got a job with Blizzard's team shortly after if I recall.
Anyway, I guess my point is that they spent probably 2 years making this game with a team of 5 or 6 people. You probably don't need to waste your life with a vain hope, but if you can get something working and visible it will help your case.
Anything thing to consider is working for gaming companies has a reputation for sucking unless you have no personal life and don't care about work hours per week.
Link to the game in question:
http://www.ethermoon.com/main/index.phtml