My friends from Victoria BC, Graham and Paul, who run this site put up an new short movie every Friday. Some other movies that Slashdot readers might be interested in:
Video Game fans should enjoy 64k Loading Ready Rap and PSA for Ewe Boll
Those that like the absurd might like Quantum Documentary
Film Noir lovers should enjoy 30 Minutes or Less
And for Canadian readers Canadaman.
According to Take-Two, the publisher has already incurred a loss of $24.5 million due to the "Hot Coffee" scandal, subsequent re-rating of San Andreas, and removal of the game from most retailers' shelves (until it was replaced with the M-rated version).
Actually you can get this content on the PS2 version according to this article. It seems likely that it is available on all version, originally Rockstar said that it was just a PC mod, now it appears that it was in the code all along and you just needed to hack the game a bit to get it to show you the "Hot Coffee" scene.
The high quality and similarity to Samurai Jack is because the person responsible, Genndy Tartakovsky, also created Samurai Jack and worked on Dexter's Laboratory and the Power Puff Girls.
I have been a comics reader for many years but I must admit that I have never read any of Stan Lee's Silver Age Comics. I have always assumed that they were well written stories.
I recently read his team-up with DC comics to created an Elseworld style retelling of the origins of DC characters called Just Imagine Stan Lee Creating the DC Universe that threatened that assumption.
I was surprised to discover it was the worst comic book writing I have ever read. The stories were week and uninteresting and the dialogue was the most stereotypical comic book trash I had ever read. The most aggravating part was that he felt the necessity to describe and explain everything that was going on with dialogue, even though all of it was completely obvious from the (mostly) exceptional artwork.
I am now not sure if I want to read the Silver Age Marvel comics for fear of his writing. Has his writing always been this bad, or did he lose his edge?
I agree that micropayments might not be the best solution for selling creative content online but youth not being able to buy into this system is really not an issue with this paticular content as it is "for mature readers only."
There are 2 small problems with using the Xserve as a video editing workstation from a small studio or a school perspective; the extra cost of the unnecessary unlimited OS X Server license and no DVD-R drive. You can buy rack-mounded enclosures to install a DVD-R drive from a third party but of course that adds to the cost. On the positive side the easy to upgrade storage, rack-mountable enclosure, front access FireWire 400 and solid construction make this a great workstation.
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My friends from Victoria BC, Graham and Paul, who run this site put up an new short movie every Friday. Some other movies that Slashdot readers might be interested in:
Video Game fans should enjoy 64k Loading Ready Rap and PSA for Ewe Boll
Those that like the absurd might like Quantum Documentary
Film Noir lovers should enjoy 30 Minutes or Less
And for Canadian readers Canadaman.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/01/09
Actually you can get this content on the PS2 version according to this article. It seems likely that it is available on all version, originally Rockstar said that it was just a PC mod, now it appears that it was in the code all along and you just needed to hack the game a bit to get it to show you the "Hot Coffee" scene.
The high quality and similarity to Samurai Jack is because the person responsible, Genndy Tartakovsky, also created Samurai Jack and worked on Dexter's Laboratory and the Power Puff Girls.
"Soccer Mommies... My only weakness"
I have been a comics reader for many years but I must admit that I have never read any of Stan Lee's Silver Age Comics. I have always assumed that they were well written stories. I recently read his team-up with DC comics to created an Elseworld style retelling of the origins of DC characters called Just Imagine Stan Lee Creating the DC Universe that threatened that assumption.
I was surprised to discover it was the worst comic book writing I have ever read. The stories were week and uninteresting and the dialogue was the most stereotypical comic book trash I had ever read. The most aggravating part was that he felt the necessity to describe and explain everything that was going on with dialogue, even though all of it was completely obvious from the (mostly) exceptional artwork.I am now not sure if I want to read the Silver Age Marvel comics for fear of his writing. Has his writing always been this bad, or did he lose his edge?
I agree that micropayments might not be the best solution for selling creative content online but youth not being able to buy into this system is really not an issue with this paticular content as it is "for mature readers only."
There are 2 small problems with using the Xserve as a video editing workstation from a small studio or a school perspective; the extra cost of the unnecessary unlimited OS X Server license and no DVD-R drive. You can buy rack-mounded enclosures to install a DVD-R drive from a third party but of course that adds to the cost.
On the positive side the easy to upgrade storage, rack-mountable enclosure, front access FireWire 400 and solid construction make this a great workstation.