Posts by Thrik

  • Does this mean it is for real?

    Quote from marks

    Are you serious? I wouldn't call enforced state censorship "a bit of a non-event". You just need to look to China to see where that can lead.I know where it could lead, and I've vocally opposed the idea whenever I've had the opportunity — including via correspondence to the Government. But as it stands, unless you're using an internet access point that you have no authority over (e.g. in a coffee shop or when you're a kid), any and all UK filtering is trivial to disable (no underground methods needed).

    While I'm no fan of censorship, I'm also no fan of hyperbole. It's important to be clear that the state isn't currently imposing mandatory filtering — the state is completely OK with you not using the filtering because it's aimed at making the web a 'safe for kids by default' environment. And as long as it stays that way I do consider it a small issue. After all, my web activity hasn't been affected at all.

  • Does this mean it is for real?

    It's funny because it feels the opposite here in the UK, with internet speeds increasing at a rate of about 20mb/s per year for the past several years (obviously only in major areas but quieter parts are getting faster at a lower rate). In fact, the rate of progress here has gone way beyond my expectations. There was a recent controversy about filtering UK internet, but in reality that's turned out to be a bit of a non-event and is only really an issue for those who don't pay the bill — but then parents have always had the option of filtering their kids' internet if they really want to, although that's not really something I believe in.


    I'm not sure how it is in the US, but I've had the distinct impression from talking to people on IRC that the web infrastructure is pretty bad over there and fibre isn't nearly as common as it is in many other countries. Maybe that's also part of the problem: either a reluctance or an inability to make serious technological strides in tandem with the rest of the world (bizarre when you think about where a lot of the internet's biggest players come from), forcing them into borderline draconian measures like this to keep things running in the face of a vast capacity issue they're not keen to talk about. I guess the US's sheer size doesn't help either.

  • Does this mean it is for real?

    I think the best way of stopping these things is to take away the one source of power the ISPs truly have: money.

    It delights me to see these initiatives some companies have been talking to make the internet freely available on a wide scale, like those balloons Google was deploying to cheaply distribute internet access across an entire city if not continent.

    What we need is for those technologies to become much more widespread and almost negligible in terms of cost. While companies will always be needed — you can't 'home grow' reliable and performant internet infrastructure — by having it so no one company has anything resembling a stranglehold they simply won't be able to charge huge prices while providing a shit service.

    I'd love to see a world where hundreds of companies are offering cheap, global, high-speed internet access. No installation, no limitations, potentially not even registration. It'd definitely require wireless technology to improve but we're going that way.

    It's currently a dream but imagine if wireless became so robust you could use an ISP from Germany as easily as the US from any destination on the planet. US ISPs are assholes? Australian ISPs censor? No problem, go choose one from somewhere else. Making the internet providers as global as the internet itself would be huge and force ISPs to think twice about anti-consumer bullshit.

  • Does this mean it is for real?

    That is absolutely ludicrous. A huge proportion of the internet in general runs on AWS nowadays, not just videos but also entire websites. Are you seriously telling me they're starting to slow down the internet rather than, you know, invest in higher capacity (like some countries are successfully doing)? Shit, man...

  • 24 - Live another day

    Ah they're just meant to do one thing: make it clear it's all British this time, baby.


    The promo isn't actually a clip of the show, it was made specially for Super Bowl. I would hope Chloe doesn't look like she belongs on a catwalk in the actual series, lmao.

  • 24 - Live another day


    Don't forget that with US TV shows they often air them as they're still filming them.

  • 24 - Live another day

    OH SHIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!


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  • Superman VS Batman

    Oh I don't know about the latest episodes, but IMO the first two seasons were splendid. You do need to watch it from the beginning though because jumping right in probably makes the present day setting seem particularly weird because you've not been 'eased in', lol.

  • [Feature]Interview with Rosin 'kikette' Geoffrey, Arkane Studios Env Artist

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  • GTA V

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    BTW, I experienced my first lightning storm after quite a lot of hours of play while out in the countryside last night. So fucking beautiful — holy shit!

  • Going to the gym is like a korean MMORPG

    Not necessarily gym-related, but I've been using an app for the past 11 days called Fitocracy Macros and it's seriously transformed how I eat.


    I've used calorie counting apps before but never really had much success with them. The key here is you can't actually enter calories, you have to enter grams of proteins, carbs, and fats. Also, you have to actually find the amounts yourself (i.e. through the web or on the packets). It's almost like a game finding the right food to hit the targets while not exceeding the limits, lol. So for the first time in my entire life I've been properly thinking about how much nutrition is in everything.


    I didn't even realise how many carbs were hidden away in things like Coke, coffee, tea, etc. Also I find I can eat so much more meat compared to the pasta, bread, etc I usually eat and be a lot more full. Of course I still consume carbs, but I practically hit the limit the app recommends for my weight and workout frequency just from drinks alone. It's nice to have something telling me how much of each component I should eat rather than just guessing it.


    I've lost just over seven pounds in the past 11 days, but I think that will (and should) slow down now the 'beginner's bonus' is over from water retention, etc. The main thing is this has given me a much better understanding of how to eat better and I'm genuinely more energised and full all day from doing this.


    Combined with doing weights (it increases my nutrition on workout days) I'm hoping I will end up looking much better in 3–6 months. Which will be useful considering that I'm recently single, LOL.

  • Superman VS Batman

    I'm reserving judgement as I don't really know what he's like as an actor, but I don't see how he couldn't potentially pull it off if he is actually good. He does look young, but after watching the excellent BBC's Sherlock my mind has been very much changed about how unlikely actors can pull off roles (Moriarty) you'd ordinarily expect to be played by someone different.


    It'll be interesting to see what they do with his hair though, he would look mildly ridiculous with his usual curly top. He really should be bald, in keeping with the comics:


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    I'm very happy with the casting of Jeremy Irons as Alfred, though. He's an excellent actor and now he's pretty old he does seem like he could suit the butler role perfectly — plus he's got that slightly dark touch that the butler of a borderline nutcase should have.

  • The Elder Scrolls MMO

    LMAO Frie!


    You know what'd really make an MMO for me, or any RPG for that matter? Something that fuses the experience of Skyrim with Minecraft. I know that Minecraft has been introducing its own RPG-like mechanics and such, but the aesthetic of the game is what kills it for me. Imagine if you could be playing a game like Skyrim, but when you're out in the forests you can actually build yourself a proper shack with beautiful lighting and everything. As you progress through the game, you slowly build up an epic stronghold that's always your safe place to go back to. Until it gets destroyed by some big event and then you cry.


    The thing is, games like Fable and Skyrim always tantalisingly tease what this kind of thing could be like by giving you pre-fab houses that you can slightly customise, but if they could get the technology to the point where it's feasible to truly craft the shit out of a game without compromising the graphics to laughable proportions I'd love it. Make your own cave in the mountains of Skyrim!

  • The Elder Scrolls MMO

    Yeah I was talking to my barber (lol) about it and he said it really wasn't very good at all. A bit like Skyrim except less graphically appealing, filled with annoying people, diluted gameplay, and generally not very engaging at all.


    Should have probably seen it coming, considering it's not even by Bethesda GS.

  • Can i use python scripts in UNITY???

    Quote from Evert

    http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/87790-…ython-and-Unity

    http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/86461-…preter-in-Unity


    Quote from knj

    dude, srsly, learn to use google, god damn !


    Quote from Thrik

    Agreed, your questions really are very basic and could easily be answered via a quick search — literally, just Google 'unity python'. And please post these things in the 3D forum as I have to keep moving your threads there...


    lmao, the irony is that this thread is now one of the top results for this on Google. xD


    https://www.google.com/search?q=unity+python