Exactly. I've often thought it would be fun to do that whole thing he did with the convenience store guy. Then again, that's a THOUGHT. The movie is a FANTASY. In REALITY you try that shit and you'll get a shotgun blast to the face since most convenience stores don't put up with that shit anymore.:D
No. Some stores won't sell M rated games to obviously underage kids, but there isn't any kind of actual law preventing it. Several have been tried and failed.
It's because most parents nowdays are selfish cocks. They grew up in the "me" era of the 70's and 80's and as a result have grand illusions of a world without repercussions. They don't have the mental capacity to understand that THEY CAN FUCK UP. They don't give a damn that their kids are rotten assholes. All they care about is thenselves and fuck everyone else.
If anyone disagrees, I'll be more than happy to tell you about some of my friends.
Uh, ever heard of knowing the difference between right and wrong, fantasy and reality. Ever heard of NOT BEING A FUCKING DIPSHIT? Incite my balls. Some fuckhead parents give their dumb-fuck kids a game meant for people that KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A FUCKING GAME AND REALITY and suddenly is the fault of the game makers that the kids are TOTAL FUCKING ASSCLOWNS? Fuck that. That is bullshit, straight up. Incitement to commit a crime is standing up and saying "I want you five guys to go and rape that woman." Incitement to commit a crime is NOT a depiction of violence.
I've never had to dig into my X11Config file on Windows to get my video drivers working.
Yes, I am aware there isn't an X11Config on Windows. That's not the point. To install Linux video drivers I had to go in and manually edit what would be a very scary looking file for the overwhelming majority of users, then on top of that I couldn't get X to start up. After some posting on the nVidia troubleshooting forum I found that I needed to enable IgnoreEDID and I still have no clue WTF that does. It took me the better part of two weeks to INSTALL MY DAMN VIDEO DRIVERS because I couldn't get any help with my problem.
And anyone that can't install Windows is a total dumbass. It's more idiot proof than a freaking Red Hat install! Even my dad can install Windows.
Well, who else is pushing the newest cards as hard? Doom 3 is the closest thing to what HL2 is pulling off, and from what I understand their release date is still a ways off so you could EASILY get bitching and moaning from Carmack over the difference in cards.
Umm.... no. HL2 on Linux isn't going to convert anyone, so I don't see the Linux user numbers suddenly shooting through the roof. Sometimes a minority group just has to DEAL WITH IT and find something else to champion.
Yes, audiophiles are idiots. I will agree with you wholeheartedly on that point.
I had always heard that 60FPS is approaching how fast the eye registers incoming stuff and things. Of course, you can't really quantify vision in terms of FPS, since vision is just a weeeee bit different.
Yes. All it takes is a stencil and a knife. It isn't handwriting, just some cutout stuff. As long as you have the basic shape right, there's really no way to screw it up.
No, I'm talking about the slight clipping of a sine waves top and bottom peaks. Distortion and tone are different things both musically and mathematically.
You're taking me a bit too literally I think. The distortion I was referring to was the inherent distortion in any instrument that's not electronic. You don't have to convince me that distortion just makes bad guitarists sound distorted, I know this all too well. But what minor levels of distortion (those not even heard as actual clipping) do is color a tone, just like an EQ. Also, the parent mentioned that "good musicians don't need effects". My point was that being able to use effects well is a skill in itself and while guys like the Edge from U2 might be able to play without them, it sounds better with them because he knows how to use effects correctly.
Yeah, back to the topic at hand. Using autotune to save an almost-perfect take is one thing, but doing it to save your entire show? Nah. Total crap. Frankly I think that albums that abuse autotune are worse than Milli Vanilli's lip synching. It's not any better, that's for sure.
Where did I say guitars produced perfect sine waves? Oh, that's right, I DIDN'T. The cleaner an electric guitar gets, the crappier it sounds. An electric guitar into an amp with no reverb and the EQ set flat is going to sound like total ass. I know this for a fact. I've been building, playing, and working on guitars long enough to know my way around them. Even the cleanest jazz tones (Charlie Christian and Wes Montgomery, for example) have some amount of distortion. Reverb is almost a neccesity to get a good clean tone. You're confusing minor levels if signal distortion, which is what I am referring to, with massive amounts of pedal-driven distortion, which I am not.
I've tried classical, jazz, bluegrass, country, salsa, reggae, blues, ska, latin styles, basically anything you can throw out. While I don't like all of these genres I am aware of them and respect all of them. Now crawl back under your rock.
Actually, he's completely right. A pure sine wave is damned boring and sounds like ass. Some level of distortion is neccesary to make the sound more interesting. This may not be the over-the-top death/black metal type of distortion, just a really gentle clipping will do. It's also utter crap that good musicians don't need effects and distortion. Good musicians know how to use effects corectly, bad ones use them as band-aids. See David Gilmour for an example.:D
Nah, I think I'll let you keep it. Laws are laws. You break them, you pay. It doesn't matter if you fucking like them or not. Believe me, dipshit, the cops sure as fuck aren't getting rich off of your traffic tickets.
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Blow me. Being an asshole and being a COMPLETE DIPSHIT THAT SHOOTS PEOPLE BECAUSE OF A VIDEO GAME are two entirely different things.
Read some of the articles posted here. Get yourself informed.
Exactly. I've often thought it would be fun to do that whole thing he did with the convenience store guy. Then again, that's a THOUGHT. The movie is a FANTASY. In REALITY you try that shit and you'll get a shotgun blast to the face since most convenience stores don't put up with that shit anymore. :D
No. Some stores won't sell M rated games to obviously underage kids, but there isn't any kind of actual law preventing it. Several have been tried and failed.
It's because most parents nowdays are selfish cocks. They grew up in the "me" era of the 70's and 80's and as a result have grand illusions of a world without repercussions. They don't have the mental capacity to understand that THEY CAN FUCK UP. They don't give a damn that their kids are rotten assholes. All they care about is thenselves and fuck everyone else.
If anyone disagrees, I'll be more than happy to tell you about some of my friends.
Here's a virtual +1 for you.
Uh, ever heard of knowing the difference between right and wrong, fantasy and reality. Ever heard of NOT BEING A FUCKING DIPSHIT? Incite my balls. Some fuckhead parents give their dumb-fuck kids a game meant for people that KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A FUCKING GAME AND REALITY and suddenly is the fault of the game makers that the kids are TOTAL FUCKING ASSCLOWNS? Fuck that. That is bullshit, straight up. Incitement to commit a crime is standing up and saying "I want you five guys to go and rape that woman." Incitement to commit a crime is NOT a depiction of violence.
Rockstar is the creator, Take Two the distributor. IIRC.
I've never had to dig into my X11Config file on Windows to get my video drivers working.
Yes, I am aware there isn't an X11Config on Windows. That's not the point. To install Linux video drivers I had to go in and manually edit what would be a very scary looking file for the overwhelming majority of users, then on top of that I couldn't get X to start up. After some posting on the nVidia troubleshooting forum I found that I needed to enable IgnoreEDID and I still have no clue WTF that does. It took me the better part of two weeks to INSTALL MY DAMN VIDEO DRIVERS because I couldn't get any help with my problem.
And anyone that can't install Windows is a total dumbass. It's more idiot proof than a freaking Red Hat install! Even my dad can install Windows.
Well, who else is pushing the newest cards as hard? Doom 3 is the closest thing to what HL2 is pulling off, and from what I understand their release date is still a ways off so you could EASILY get bitching and moaning from Carmack over the difference in cards.
Umm.... no. HL2 on Linux isn't going to convert anyone, so I don't see the Linux user numbers suddenly shooting through the roof. Sometimes a minority group just has to DEAL WITH IT and find something else to champion.
Well it would be nice if principle paid the bills, but it doesn't. See Loki Games.
Where are those mod points when I need them? Here's a virtual +1 Funny.
The relevant point here is that Apple Computers had a CONTRACT with Apple Corps that was VIOLATED. You break a contract, you pay. Simple as that.
Or so you think. If you're willing to trade FPS for resolution, you can crank that baby up to 3200x2400 and watch the 2 FPM (that's minute) glory.
Not that many years ago I cranked Doom II up to 320x240 and did the same thing...
Yes, audiophiles are idiots. I will agree with you wholeheartedly on that point.
I had always heard that 60FPS is approaching how fast the eye registers incoming stuff and things. Of course, you can't really quantify vision in terms of FPS, since vision is just a weeeee bit different.
Yes. All it takes is a stencil and a knife. It isn't handwriting, just some cutout stuff. As long as you have the basic shape right, there's really no way to screw it up.
If particle man got in a fight with string man who would win?
Triangle man.
No, I'm talking about the slight clipping of a sine waves top and bottom peaks. Distortion and tone are different things both musically and mathematically.
You're taking me a bit too literally I think. The distortion I was referring to was the inherent distortion in any instrument that's not electronic. You don't have to convince me that distortion just makes bad guitarists sound distorted, I know this all too well. But what minor levels of distortion (those not even heard as actual clipping) do is color a tone, just like an EQ. Also, the parent mentioned that "good musicians don't need effects". My point was that being able to use effects well is a skill in itself and while guys like the Edge from U2 might be able to play without them, it sounds better with them because he knows how to use effects correctly.
Yeah, back to the topic at hand. Using autotune to save an almost-perfect take is one thing, but doing it to save your entire show? Nah. Total crap. Frankly I think that albums that abuse autotune are worse than Milli Vanilli's lip synching. It's not any better, that's for sure.
Where did I say guitars produced perfect sine waves? Oh, that's right, I DIDN'T. The cleaner an electric guitar gets, the crappier it sounds. An electric guitar into an amp with no reverb and the EQ set flat is going to sound like total ass. I know this for a fact. I've been building, playing, and working on guitars long enough to know my way around them. Even the cleanest jazz tones (Charlie Christian and Wes Montgomery, for example) have some amount of distortion. Reverb is almost a neccesity to get a good clean tone. You're confusing minor levels if signal distortion, which is what I am referring to, with massive amounts of pedal-driven distortion, which I am not.
I've tried classical, jazz, bluegrass, country, salsa, reggae, blues, ska, latin styles, basically anything you can throw out. While I don't like all of these genres I am aware of them and respect all of them. Now crawl back under your rock.
I can't remember the last time I saw an opera singer doing backflips during a chorus. THAT would be scary.
If you use really whacked-out autotune settings, it will end up doing something similar. The artifacting can sound something like a vocoder.
Actually, he's completely right. A pure sine wave is damned boring and sounds like ass. Some level of distortion is neccesary to make the sound more interesting. This may not be the over-the-top death/black metal type of distortion, just a really gentle clipping will do. It's also utter crap that good musicians don't need effects and distortion. Good musicians know how to use effects corectly, bad ones use them as band-aids. See David Gilmour for an example. :D
Nah, I think I'll let you keep it. Laws are laws. You break them, you pay. It doesn't matter if you fucking like them or not. Believe me, dipshit, the cops sure as fuck aren't getting rich off of your traffic tickets.