Except we don't etch out the small details in a 3D model, we just use a normal, bump, or displacement map. Usually created from a photo, or at least using parts of photos.

It was invented by Disney during WW2 to help train soldiers to fight nazis. yes, they were trained by cartoons.

Snafu was actually Private Snafu, who just fucked up everything he touched. Don't be like Private Snafu.

It does mean "Situation normal all fucked up"

That's a bit extreme, but I smell what you're stepping in.

I've been only buying games that are on sale at steam. I picked up some 50-60 dollar games for 10-20 bucks that way, and they aren't used at all!

If *that* isn't sticking it to the man, well then it's the closest I can come without giving them up entirely.

As a 3d artist in both games and high end, I can attest to what you just posted.

Deadlines? Shorter. Workload? Higher. Hours? 80-100 weeks for the past 10 years. Overtime? Ha! Benefits? Nope. Software? Autodesk puts out worse and worse releases every year, making things take *longer*, but our deadlines just get shorter.

It's a mess, it's not sustainable, and soon it'll implode.

But from my experience it's not the majority of users that demand the super high end 3d graphics, it's the marketing team. It's like all they understand is superficial glitz.

To be fair, even the games with supposedly "great story" are mostly tripe. Compared to real literature game stories are basic and childlike, with the exception of Half Life 2. Even Mass Effect (which everyone rages about) has some pretty crappy story.

Life was much easier back in the day with my zip drive, voodoo 3, and Pentium 2 MMX overdrive. That thing had loads of EDO RAM. Adding the Kittyhawk was just overkill, but I'd like to think the Diamond Stealth 64 ensured that "outside" was just a concept. Poor bastard down the street had an Audrey 2000, and my brother got my old Sinclair 1000! (lol!)

Still far superior to the Adam though....

This has nothing to do with saving hundreds of thousands of lives, get real pal. This is because of the billions of dollars in advertising, marketing, and swag associated with the event. The biggest advertisers in the world have spent tens of millions just getting ready for it.

If there was a terrorist attack during the event, it would hurt the economy very deeply for years to come as people avoided the event.

Additionally it isn't a few tens of millions, the Iraq war is already in the trillions, we have scanners that cost hundreds of millions, the shredding of our founding document, the list goes on and on. All in the name of fighting terrorism to hide the failed foreign policy of the past 60 years.

A few tens of million.... that's some funny fucking shit right there.

One can't help but wonder why they would ever have opened up these channels of communication. What did they expect to get as concerns? Technically the Executive has no power to do anything about any of this, so why bother with the dialogue? Every issue has to be resolved in the other two branches, so what did they hope to accomplish?

Unless of course they're just compiling a list...

You took the blue pill didn't you.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/08/12/id-not-licensing-id-tech-5/

Bethesda is starting to depress me between this, the state of Brink and Rage, and they aren't really targeting pc anymore either.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/298610/skyrim-looks-the-same-when-playing-on-pc-and-console-bethesda/

No extra love for the people that made them what they are. (And with them buying id, well you can put it all together...) Though one could argue mods, though they claim mods will work for consoles I seriously doubt it will work correctly.

Sort of depressing. I've been playing since Arena. I suffered through the quest-items-stuck-in-walls Daggerfall, the interesting openness and towns of Morrowind, to the bland homogeneity of Oblivion. It's a shame there are not many PC purist companies left. Things are starting to get a little too cookie cutter and the bugs just get worse and worse. Meanwhile one of the omega developers of an entire genre got sucked into a company that's losing touch with it's roots. Sad, sad times...