The way I see it there's two possible reasons for this:
1) We're wired up to be like that, to obey the leader, or perhaps a little less insidiously - to respect those we admire. But in todays society we all like to think we're pretty little flowers. So the trick is to pamper to the high order brain functions, while secretly targeting our inert need to follow.
Isn't that basically what it boils down to? A franchise has an established fan base, a successful film means that the formula works, the director / cast combination works etc. etc. Couple that with a PG13 rating and you've got a money maker. Sadly we're in the minority regarding spoon feeding, people like that - they like (at its most basic) being told what to do, to have a leader figure no matter how abstract that figure is. I find that there are few franchises that really require sequels, and even fewer require prequels - I'm quietly glad for example that District 9 and Cloverfield haven't been turned into giant cash cows. Cloverfield would be especially suited to an alternate telling of the story from a different character's perspective. Having said that Paranormal Activity 2 seemed to work really well, despite it being an obvious cash grab. I expect the third and fourth installments to be terrible though.
I can almost picture the Win7 advert... It's that loser from the old ad still sitting outside of his dorm room while his room-mate is banging a random girl. He's sitting there, all done watching whatever hentai he downloaded, and then... Eureka! "To The Cloud!" He shouts, as he loads up Habbo Hotel.
Yup saw his name and thought of the song, or more specifically, of the Fear Factory cover which is the first time I heard the song and knew its name... Sad really. If I had points I'd mod you up:(
He's using pseudo random number generation to place images in a way that does not appear to repeat, this is pretty much exactly what Perlin Noise does, the way he composites images together is also similar to how one composites different layers of noise. The link I had in my OP also includes a specific section about NOT having each new octave be double the frequency of the last, specifically because you will get the standing wave like effect you mention. It's certainly a novel approach.
My immediate reaction was that this kind of stuff is taught in introductory CS lectures as Perlin Noise, I suppose web developers with their javascript don't need to learn real programming or the application of complex algorithms:)
...Are in order for the web developer community; they've discovered Perlin Noise! Aww bless! Meanwhile, game developers everywhere have been using this technique to generate anything from planetary landscapes to entire galaxies for a while now. Baby steps guys.
INAG, but I suppose if you're serious I would ask if there's been any comparable event in the past that one could draw predictions from, and what exactly 'rapidly increasing' means in this context?
And I'm willing to bet that solar flare that almost got the Messenger spacecraft contained neutrinos that heated the Earths core upon contact. It's certainly a fascinating theory you have there.
The difference being that your body will last a lot longer if you absorb sunlight and exert a little physical strain on it once in a while. Every person I know who is an internet recluse looks and smells like a potatoe. It simply comes with the territory.
I actually found the AI in Far Cry to be atrocious. There were plenty of times when I'd be fighting in a camp, and I'd run into a building and simply camp one doorway and watch as the idiot soldiers eventually streamed in one at a time. The first time I did that, I was also periodically checking behind me because there were two ways into the complex, but eventually gave up as it was clear the AI was incapable of coordinating an assault. The final level is also a massive exercise in tedium, by then I had God mode on because the game had simply gotten that boring. I think the first 1/3 of Far Cry is absolute gold, but it starts to get pretty generic after that.
I do that quite frequently actually, and it drives my wife up the wall. My coworkers assure me that my accent's getting better by the day, but my biggest problem is that I rely on 'eh' as too much of a crutch to get the impression right. Regarding hockey, you're just angry because you lost at the Olympics.
Honestly your immigration system is such a nightmare of paperwork, fees and more paperwork, I don't think you have much to worry about! I hear America's is around the same level of insanity (unless you happen to be exactly what they want at the time). When my wife and I watched the Proposal at the theatre we probably laughed the loudest, especially at the questions at the end - "what's his favourite colour outdoors" is my favourite.
That's rather impressive, I hope you've lived the long and fulfilling life you appear to deserve before the inevitable implosion of the Great American dream. In the meantime I have some banner ads to create to fuel everything we stand against.
You know what's terrifying to me is that I wasn't taught half the awful twisted stuff the Brits pulled on the world until I met an Indian bloke at University who promptly showed me a documentary about Ghandi. At school I took History and we learnt lots of interesting things about WWII, Mussolini, the Arab Israeli conflict and Tsarist Russia, but nothing about why exactly the word 'Great' is sometimes prepended to 'Britain'. Seriously, we didn't learn anything about Ghandi in school. That's worrying.
I can taste the venom dripping from that post. Touche sir. I had the honour of being punched in the face by a Scottish 16 year old and I must agree with you, the accent made it a far more pleasant affair than it would have been otherwise. For instance getting punched in the face by a Welshman would have made me livid!
You know what I think it is - it's the sheer SIZE of the country, I suppose a little patriotism is to be expected when one owns a continent. But then again, places like Hollywood and Las Vegas are just utter cesspools of human excess and misery. There's definitely something wrong with a culture that churns out such quality programming as 'Last Bride Standing'.
Personally I think a better part of British culture to attack would be football hooliganism and youth crime, which seems to have risen as a counter culture to the snobbery. The one thing I don't see much of in Canada is 16 year olds running about with screw drivers spitting on people and punching the elderly. In Scotland the problem's so bad that the term 'NED' (Non-educated Delinquent) is actually used in newspaper headlines.
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The way I see it there's two possible reasons for this:
1) We're wired up to be like that, to obey the leader, or perhaps a little less insidiously - to respect those we admire. But in todays society we all like to think we're pretty little flowers. So the trick is to pamper to the high order brain functions, while secretly targeting our inert need to follow.
2) We're all just lazy slobs.
Isn't that basically what it boils down to? A franchise has an established fan base, a successful film means that the formula works, the director / cast combination works etc. etc. Couple that with a PG13 rating and you've got a money maker. Sadly we're in the minority regarding spoon feeding, people like that - they like (at its most basic) being told what to do, to have a leader figure no matter how abstract that figure is. I find that there are few franchises that really require sequels, and even fewer require prequels - I'm quietly glad for example that District 9 and Cloverfield haven't been turned into giant cash cows. Cloverfield would be especially suited to an alternate telling of the story from a different character's perspective. Having said that Paranormal Activity 2 seemed to work really well, despite it being an obvious cash grab. I expect the third and fourth installments to be terrible though.
Nope I have a very similar job and I'm very much aware that it's a living fucking hell.
I can almost picture the Win7 advert... It's that loser from the old ad still sitting outside of his dorm room while his room-mate is banging a random girl. He's sitting there, all done watching whatever hentai he downloaded, and then... Eureka! "To The Cloud!" He shouts, as he loads up Habbo Hotel.
Yup saw his name and thought of the song, or more specifically, of the Fear Factory cover which is the first time I heard the song and knew its name... Sad really. If I had points I'd mod you up :(
Sounds like they also taught you a little bit about necromancy.
He's using pseudo random number generation to place images in a way that does not appear to repeat, this is pretty much exactly what Perlin Noise does, the way he composites images together is also similar to how one composites different layers of noise. The link I had in my OP also includes a specific section about NOT having each new octave be double the frequency of the last, specifically because you will get the standing wave like effect you mention. It's certainly a novel approach.
My immediate reaction was that this kind of stuff is taught in introductory CS lectures as Perlin Noise, I suppose web developers with their javascript don't need to learn real programming or the application of complex algorithms :)
...Are in order for the web developer community; they've discovered Perlin Noise! Aww bless! Meanwhile, game developers everywhere have been using this technique to generate anything from planetary landscapes to entire galaxies for a while now. Baby steps guys.
INAG, but I suppose if you're serious I would ask if there's been any comparable event in the past that one could draw predictions from, and what exactly 'rapidly increasing' means in this context?
And I'm willing to bet that solar flare that almost got the Messenger spacecraft contained neutrinos that heated the Earths core upon contact. It's certainly a fascinating theory you have there.
The difference being that your body will last a lot longer if you absorb sunlight and exert a little physical strain on it once in a while. Every person I know who is an internet recluse looks and smells like a potatoe. It simply comes with the territory.
I actually found the AI in Far Cry to be atrocious. There were plenty of times when I'd be fighting in a camp, and I'd run into a building and simply camp one doorway and watch as the idiot soldiers eventually streamed in one at a time. The first time I did that, I was also periodically checking behind me because there were two ways into the complex, but eventually gave up as it was clear the AI was incapable of coordinating an assault. The final level is also a massive exercise in tedium, by then I had God mode on because the game had simply gotten that boring. I think the first 1/3 of Far Cry is absolute gold, but it starts to get pretty generic after that.
That's Rift loot, you insensitive clod!
I do that quite frequently actually, and it drives my wife up the wall. My coworkers assure me that my accent's getting better by the day, but my biggest problem is that I rely on 'eh' as too much of a crutch to get the impression right. Regarding hockey, you're just angry because you lost at the Olympics.
Honestly your immigration system is such a nightmare of paperwork, fees and more paperwork, I don't think you have much to worry about! I hear America's is around the same level of insanity (unless you happen to be exactly what they want at the time). When my wife and I watched the Proposal at the theatre we probably laughed the loudest, especially at the questions at the end - "what's his favourite colour outdoors" is my favourite.
But Survivor is so enjoyable! I'm glad they voted Russel off quickly that uncouth cunt. Couldn't you just tone down the ads instead?
That's rather impressive, I hope you've lived the long and fulfilling life you appear to deserve before the inevitable implosion of the Great American dream. In the meantime I have some banner ads to create to fuel everything we stand against.
You know what's terrifying to me is that I wasn't taught half the awful twisted stuff the Brits pulled on the world until I met an Indian bloke at University who promptly showed me a documentary about Ghandi. At school I took History and we learnt lots of interesting things about WWII, Mussolini, the Arab Israeli conflict and Tsarist Russia, but nothing about why exactly the word 'Great' is sometimes prepended to 'Britain'. Seriously, we didn't learn anything about Ghandi in school. That's worrying.
I can taste the venom dripping from that post. Touche sir. I had the honour of being punched in the face by a Scottish 16 year old and I must agree with you, the accent made it a far more pleasant affair than it would have been otherwise. For instance getting punched in the face by a Welshman would have made me livid!
Glasgow Survival always cracks me up. What a toilet.
You know what I think it is - it's the sheer SIZE of the country, I suppose a little patriotism is to be expected when one owns a continent. But then again, places like Hollywood and Las Vegas are just utter cesspools of human excess and misery. There's definitely something wrong with a culture that churns out such quality programming as 'Last Bride Standing'.
As long as Walmart and plus sized coffins still exist, we're going to have to agree to disagree.
Personally I think a better part of British culture to attack would be football hooliganism and youth crime, which seems to have risen as a counter culture to the snobbery. The one thing I don't see much of in Canada is 16 year olds running about with screw drivers spitting on people and punching the elderly. In Scotland the problem's so bad that the term 'NED' (Non-educated Delinquent) is actually used in newspaper headlines.
Well when it's safer to stick a Canadian flag onto your back pack rather than your own as a means to explain your dialect you know you're in trouble.