Tali'Thread vas Clan Zorah nar BSN 6.0

[SciFlyBoy]

Congrats! You have gone more than half the way to retirement!

But no way am I half done. Thanks!

[SciFlyBoy]

Happy birthday, Sci!

Thank you.

[Mazder]

Happy Birthday Sci, hope it's a good 'un!

[DarkStorm]

Hey, another old bastard. welcome to the club.

[TLock]

Well, I turn 35 today.

Happy Birthday man! Another year wiser as I always say

[Dragaros]

Well, I turn 35 today.

Congrats! Enjoy your birthday, and don't let anyone call you old. You have to be at least 40 before that.

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-Ye_H_BWFg

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAkVfko1ulk

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cuqyg4RCaes

"T-rex 'was ginger with freckles, feathers and had an unimpressive roar' dinosaur experts claim"

[Alienmorph]

DearGod, who modeled that T-rex? The head is completely fucked up. And it's for a DOCUMENTARY?!

[TLock]

*metal gear survive video*

Not sure how to feel about this game. The concept seems well plausible in a MGS setting....but it just feels like a MGS 5 rehash.

[TTTX]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAkVfko1ulk

well the voice actors sound bored in this trailer and some really bad.

Also having a singleplayer in this makes me want to laugh my ass off, simply because of half ass it's going to be.

[TTTX]

Not sure how to feel about this game. The concept seems well plausible in a MGS setting....but it just feels like a MGS 5 rehash.

It's a multiplayer survival game with Metal gear name slap on it and with a water down singleplayer.

it's not cannon to Metal Gear solid, Konami don't know what to with series now they fired Kojima.

[Vol]

Happy Birthday, Sci! You got a few good years on me, but I'll catch up, don't you worry. Live it up, avoid the mudslides, and look at the stars, my friend.

[Alienmorph]

Well... for a rushed, souless cash-in with zombies, at least it doesn't look as bad as RE: Umbrella Corps was. Tho that's not exactly high fucking praise.

Also, it's probably gonna be filled up of microtransactions. I mean, they put them in the actual good game thei're lifting most of this one's assetts from, so why wouldn't they?

[Someone With Mass]

That looks like something closer to The Last of Us than anything Metal Gear. Also, zombies? Really? Talk about reanimating the horse just so you can beat it to death again. They even have the type that explodes upon taking damage. Never seen that one before.

[TheodoricFriede]

There are few concepts in the world more lazy than zombies at this point.

[Vol]

Maybe I'm a weird one in this, but I'm finding learning how bones are shaped and connected, then how muscle wraps and anchors, is way more helpful than "Draw these basic geometric shapes and then contour like this."

Unrelated, but it's shocking how shitty I am at Deathmatch versus a team fight.

[Mazder]

Maybe I'm a weird one in this, but I'm finding learning how bones are shaped and connected, then how muscle wraps and anchors, is way more helpful than "Draw these basic geometric shapes and then contour like this."

Nah it just means you're jumping the gun
Shapes come first, then muscles and how they wrap and shit. They're just more complex shapes after all

Speaking of which tomorrow I start my "Mazder's gonna draw until it fucking sticks" time.

[Someone With Mass]

And I have to sketch a piece of jewelry on a piece of A4 paper with different gray scales and such in a week and then replicate it in a program like 3DMAX. I can't even draw a circle on a paper at the moment. Fun, fun, fun.

[SciFlyBoy]

Thanks for all the B-day wishes everyone. Made duck for dinner. Damn good.

[Mazder]

And I have to sketch a piece of jewelry on a piece of A4 paper with different gray scales and such in a week and then replicate it in a program like 3DMAX. I can't even draw a circle on a paper at the moment. Fun, fun, fun.

My advice is to keep it simple, like a ring or pendant/locket.

Are you given a poly limit?

[Someone With Mass]

And I have to sketch a piece of jewelry on a piece of A4 paper with different gray scales and such in a week and then replicate it in a program like 3DMAX. I can't even draw a circle on a paper at the moment. Fun, fun, fun.

My advice is to keep it simple, like a ring or pendant/locket.

Are you given a poly limit?

Oh, I'm not that far yet. I'm only drawing the (very) basic sketch on my tablet. I'm thinking about doing a pendant, since that basically just a circle/oval around a gem of some kind.

I get the feeling that I'm under-performing a bit, since I have to turn it in as a JPEG A4 210*297 mm with a gray scale of 72 ppi. I have little idea what that implies. I'm using Autodesk Sketch on my tablet and that's a TIFF file.

[Mazder]

Oh, I'm not that far yet. I'm only drawing the (very) basic sketch on my tablet. I'm thinking about doing a pendant, since that basically just a circle/oval around a gem of some kind.

I get the feeling that I'm under-performing a bit, since I have to turn it in as a JPEG A4 210*297 mm with a gray scale of 72 ppi. I have little idea what that implies. I'm using Autodesk Sketch on my tablet and that's a TIFF file.

Well it's a rather simple (and strange in terms of work performance) file type used in photoshop/other art programs. the A4 sizing is the odd part as most people go by pixel ratios but it's easy enough to find the conversion for them.


If you'd like I have photoshop so once you're done with your sketch, export/save it to somewhere you can either get it off the cloud, send me a link and I'll turn it into a jpeg for you and upload that to the same place as a copy with the original photoshop file so you can hand that in and say "I found a machine with photoshop on it and converted it from my original tiff file" Because the TIFF file should save the layers on photoshop and if that's what your tutors are using (which is the case I suspect) then they can look in and see all the changes you made. I hope.

[Raga]

So I just started playing Wicther 2 on the Xbox and while it does look like ass compared to the PC version, it controls *so* much better. Apparently Adda is dead in the non-import playthrough,which is too bad because I saved her in the first one. No loss, I suppose. She was kind of a bitch anyway.

The plot also immediately makes more sense than the first one did, which seemed to have some translation problems or something.

[Raga]

There are few concepts in the world more lazy than zombies at this point.

Yea, the instant I learn something has zombies in it, it's an uphill fight to get me interested. I got tired of zombies like, I dunno, ten years ago.

[Someone With Mass]

Well it's a rather simple (and strange in terms of work performance) file type used in photoshop/other art programs. the A4 sizing is the odd part as most people go by pixel ratios but it's easy enough to find the conversion for them.


If you'd like I have photoshop so once you're done with your sketch, export/save it to somewhere you can either get it off the cloud, send me a link and I'll turn it into a jpeg for you and upload that to the same place as a copy with the original photoshop file so you can hand that in and say "I found a machine with photoshop on it and converted it from my original tiff file" Because the TIFF file should save the layers on photoshop and if that's what your tutors are using (which is the case I suspect) then they can look in and see all the changes you made. I hope.

Yeah, they expected me to do it either in Photoshop or some such program or on paper and I thought "why waste money and effort on either of those when I have a perfectly good tablet that's designed to be drawn on?" and now I'm waiting for an OK from the tutors.

This thing is more of a prep for a future assignment and supposed to make it easier to see the picture as a whole.

[TTTX]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IXgzc41W3s&index=15&list=WL

[SciFlyBoy]

It just occurred to me, generations are a strictly national/regional phenomena, right? The Baby-Boomers were only an american regional occurrence, not a world event. Millennials are only american and european, correct? Can you only be of a generation if you were from the previous one. The Greatest Generation was only an american phenomena. I wonder what other generations are happening throughout the world right now. I'm thinking Japan and China.

[Dragaros]

"War in the Rift: Tzeentch tricks Khorne into averting his gaze from his Blood Crusade to look instead upon the Scourge Stars. There, the Blood God espies Nurgle’s diseased bloomfields blossoming within realspace. Bellowing with rage, Khorne redirects his legions to attack his brother’s growing domain. Dozens of Tzeentch’s legions follow in their red wake. So begins the War in the Rift – the largest conflict of the Great Game to ever spill over into reality. In response to the invasions, Nurgle launches seven counter-attacks, the largest of which strikes into the Stygius Sector, for the Plague God rightly suspects Tzeentch is behind the assaults upon his realspace stronghold. Even as Kairos Fateweaver leads an assault upon Nurgle’s garden, Rotigus heads the invasion of the Stygius Sector. Slaanesh allies with all three of his brothers at different times, his fickle nature drawing the ire of all, but Khorne especially. The titanic engagements between the Chaos Gods’ legions take place across a hundred fronts, but one single battle stands above all others, for none can match the sheer scale of slaughter that occurs upon the planet of Vigrid. Armies clash and powers of such magnitude are released that the planet, now reshaped into a Daemon world, is shattered, the debris shifting into the warp where the surviving combatants continue their battle as they float upon the formless seas of the Immaterium. It is a maelstrom of conflict unending, with each side sending in a constant stream of new legions. Seeking an end to the battle, Tzeentch suggests a contest of champions to settle the matter. Each of the Chaos Gods, sure of their own victory, agrees."

Clash of Champions: For a brief moment, the galaxy is freed of the baleful gaze of the Chaos Gods, for their attention is drawn elsewhere. Each of the brothers selects their mightiest champions alongside a few favoured legions. A portion of each of the gods’ realms is reformed into the Amalgrimm– a swirling hell-field upon which the gladiatorial battles will take place. Slaanesh’s champions use their speed to quickly establish dominance, but stagger before the resilience of Nurgle’s chosen. Tzeentch’s champions unleash sorcerous bolts of such magnitude that time itself collapses around them, but none can match the martial prowess and endless fury of Khorne’s warriors. The advantage continues to change hands, until Tzeentch’s foremost champion, Kairos Fateweaver, emerges victorious through trickery. So loud is Khorne’s bellow of fury, however, that all of Kairos’ illusions are broken and the battlefield itself blasted apart in fire, and even realspace shakes at its foundations. With that, the Great Game resumes in a million different forms across a million different fronts. The galaxy’s respite passes, and the Daemon legions of the Chaos Gods once again turn realspace into a constant battlefield at the behest of their dark masters."

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxlBS0-X-Y8

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ_l5UD6Sxo

[Raga]

Okay, nevermind, I am about to go apeshit on the controls on this game again. Anybody played it (Witcher 2) on the Xbox? If so where the *fuck* is the button for quick attacks? Everything I've read says: X is "attack" and y is "strong attack." This is patent horseshit because Y is aard. I don't know what the fuck attack is mapped to X but it's damn sure not fast. It has the speed of swinging a tree trunk at people.

*Edit* Finally found it. It's A. I don't know what's with multiple shit guides claiming it's Y though.

[Vol]

It just occurred to me, generations are a strictly national/regional phenomena, right? The Baby-Boomers were only an american regional occurrence, not a world event. Millennials are only american and european, correct? Can you only be of a generation if you were from the previous one. The Greatest Generation was only an american phenomena. I wonder what other generations are happening throughout the world right now. I'm thinking Japan and China.

Uhhh...hm. I would've thought there was a baby boom in Europe after the war, what with all the men dead, but I don't actually know. Given the generational moments seem to be nationality specific, you'd be right.

China though, we'd have hit the Baby Boom right as Mao starved a couple dozen million to death, so there'd be less births. Probably a boom after Mao died, but with their culture largely destroyed (Taiwan is really China sans Communist destruction), I'd think the first boom would be kinda weird, and then their version of Millennials would be kinda wild.

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k8R363y0ow

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kihIexKXJA

[Raga]

Another nevermind on this game. Specifically story clarity. The first one did this too, in that it would give you really incomplete information about something and then pretend your decision had a lot of heavy moral implications.

So I'm doing this side mission wherein there is this creepy old haunted hospital that burned up with a lot of patients inside. Basics of the quest: kill the ghost to end the curse or kill the ones who supposedly set the hospital on fire to placate the ghost.

The people the ghost is pissed at tell me this story: some Aedirn soldiers set up a field hospital here and caught a Nilfgaard soldier who knew where some loot that had been stolen from Aidirn was. The soldiers give him some kind of truth serum to make him confess the location. Okay, okay, makes sense so far.

"Oh and also the hospital burned down for some random ass reason and the ghost hates us because the hospital burned down."

Um, what? Why would they burn down their own field hospital? Why would the ghost hate them for the fire but *not* for the truth serum/taking the loot. Why is it implicitly evil for them to subject an enemy soldier to interrogation to get the location of loot he stole during a war?

Um, what? So I killed the ghost because the subtext makes no fucking sense even though clearly the game seems to think this is the "evil" option for some reason or other.

[Grand Admiral Cheesecake]

Actually the hospital burned down because a crazy woman set it on fire.

Whom you can find references to in other places.

[SciFlyBoy]

Uhhh...hm. I would've thought there was a baby boom in Europe after the war, what with all the men dead, but I don't actually know. Given the generational moments seem to be nationality specific, you'd be right.

China though, we'd have hit the Baby Boom right as Mao starved a couple dozen million to death, so there'd be less births. Probably a boom after Mao died, but with their culture largely destroyed (Taiwan is really China sans Communist destruction), I'd think the first boom would be kinda weird, and then their version of Millennials would be kinda wild.

When I think of generations in other countries I think of Japan. In the 80's there was the "work really hard in the office then sleep under your desk" generation and now their children are the opposite because they never got to see their parents and they don't want to live that lifestyle. We don't have that here in the states.

[Dragaros]

[Dragaros]

[Dragaros]

[SciFlyBoy]

I've been listening to the music of Trent Reznor and Cliff Martinez as part of an assignment. I'm really trying to get over my preconceptions and biases while listening to the music from Social Network, Girl with the dragon tattoo, Foreigner and other such films. It's all dark and minimalist with an emphasis on music which purposefully is shackled. I need to hear them within the context of the movie before I can decide whether I like the music or not. But my opinion on the music is not as important as my ability to mimic it and write like it.

Anyway, it's been a real chore for me.

[Dragaros]

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saTuVLlYTAM

[Vol]

The normal "healthy" weight range for my height is 56 pounds. Would explain why I looked about the same at 170 as I did at 214. Though I'm back up to 188, and I _look_ stronger than I did, so there's progress. Being a hungry skeleton is hard.

[Dragaros]

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2LiUsEOqcU

That was cool. I don't play Heroes of the Storm, nor will I because that type of game just doesn't interest me, but I appreciate the cinematics and trailers.

Mecha-Abathur and Mecha-Tyrael are neat designs.

[Raga]

Actually the hospital burned down because a crazy woman set it on fire.

Whom you can find references to in other places.

Apparently only if you finish the mission in a really specific way and then it's still kind of vague in that Loredo's mother might be the person who escaped from the asylum. But even so I'm not really shedding any tears on that crazy harpy's behalf either.

I can't tell if they intentionally want you to have really spotty information to make the decision harder or if the game has translation problems. For instance in the first one, if you side with the witch in the outskirts (I can't remember her name) then everybody in the whole town dies for random mystery reasons and it never explains why. I went online to try and find out okay so why did half the village drop dead? Apparently they were all killed by barghests because somehow or other helping the which meant you didn't have enough time to save them or something but the game never explains that. I saw a thread that said that the Polish version does explain this, but the English version for some weird reason just doesn't.

I don't mind decisions having consequences but when the consequences make no sense it's irritating.

[Grand Admiral Cheesecake]

You intentionally don't have all the information. TW2 had a lot more work put into the English release than the first one did.