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I hate being constantly being under or over matched.  The new matchmaking system is garbage.  I'm done.

I haven't been active here in years, but I gotta find a place to vent.

So... I got back into this game about a year ago and last I played I was ranked MG1.  I have been busy for several months and had a break in play.  When I came back my rank was gone... I ended up losing my first to matches and wound up with a rank of silver 1.  2 weeks later i've eeked my way up to silver 3. 

What the hell has happened?  Surely my skill level hasn't decreased this much?  I honestly wouldn't care if it wasn't the fact that with low rank brings low IQ's.  I'm consistently dealing with griefers, children, and all around retards. This wasn't a problem when I was nova, but now it seems impossible to get back.  This is discouraging.  I'm about to throw in the towel.

Anyone else here sympathize?

Hah, just sketchup -> VRay

Default settings on the render, but I bumped some of the AO settings down a bit and upped the subdivs.

This was something I did at work the other day. I probably won't get to finish it. It was mainly so the artist could get a better sense of the space. He is doing that sculpture, a few paintings, and a mural that will span 360 deg. inbetween the 2 crown moulds up above. If I ever get some spare time i'd like to finish it, but figured I'd throw it up here.

Dumb weathermen are always entertaining.

I'm surprised the death toll was as high as it was for a cat 1. Shit was weak in terms of sustained windspeed and such, it must've been the floods that did most of the damage.

I got mine (intuos 3 12x8) about 4 years ago w/ a student discount... I would recommend buying used. It has held up pretty well, I use it at work, but only for PS. Just make sure you get a size that is proportionate to your monitor. I have a 4:3 at work and a 16:10 at home, on the 16:10 it is a bitch because the x-y axis doesn't correspond exactly.

Some sesame street game for the C64 or Super Mario Bros. on NES. I don't know which came before the other, I was around 3 or 4.

the Brittisch had a shot already but were called back because it had to be done by the Americans themselves :-)

Yeah, that never happened.

We can only hope one of the SEALs was wearing a helmet cam and the vid gets leaked.

I am sure the UAV feeds and radio transmissions will be released sooner or later, though.

Not really sure how this will affect things in terms of OEF/GWOT, only time will tell I guess.

As for the human shield part, from my understanding, she may have jumped in front of him at her own will... but like I said time will tell, I am looking forward to the AAR.

The facial animation is incredible, but it just looks odd the way it is stuck on the rest of the model.

Didn't Avatar basically do this, except they were able to do the mo-cap simultaneously?

This characters just look weird because the head just seems disconnected from the body.... I dunno, it's hard to explain.

Gameplay looks suprisingly..... faithful.

That kitt like character needs to cease to be, however.

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grim fandango

mafia

deus ex

metal gear solid

half-life 1/2/episodes

final fantasy 7/8

space quest 6

Those are the ones that first come to mind, most have already been said... but I think it's because they are damn good games.

Very nice, I can't wait to try building something with those!

Right now I'm trying to add:

*leaking things

*pipes

*fans

*machinery/pumps

*maybe some old-timey wetsuits/helmets?

If you have some references or concept art (that's not from bioshock) handy, send it my way!

My first attempts:

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Ha, I like it. Your palette reminds me of Q1. What's with the autodesk advert?

Read mine

Also, apple and adobe's relationship has been cooling over the past year or so. From the looks of it.... it isn't going to get better.

In regards to this video, this situation sucks all-around. I don't think these WO's legally broke ROE, but if they had a brain they would've known better. I'm sure they where fresh out of rucker and were looking to 'play metal gear for real'... Having said that, this doesn't necessarily fall on their shoulders, as an officer cleared them to fire... What I would like to know is if he was in the air/had a visual feed or if he was just relying on verbal confirmation of a threat.

Adobe doesn't even make 64 bit versions of their software for mac, not to mention by buying a $3000 mac pro you still end up with an $150 nvidia gt120 card.

This is especially important since cs now supports parallel processing.

I'm really tired of the "macs are better for graphics!" touted by mac evangelists.

I still can't wait to get my hands on this... I'm so tired of GIMP.

I was more impressed when it was presented in its original form:

(if I remember correctly the guys that wrote that now work at adobe). This just seems like an extrapolation of that original functionality, only this yields more texture repetition due to the nature of the operation (an area at a time, rather than a 1-pixel-width line at a time).

Thanks for the leg-work, that's the link I was looking for.

Holy crap that's awesome... Is this out now? IT at my work is finally ordering me creative suite... I'm going to be pissed if I end up with cs4.

edit: on a related note I seem to remember some guy(s) who developed a plug-in for cs that looked performed remarkably similar to this... I wonder if they went on to work for adobe? I'll try to dig it up.

It aired here yesterday night... There should be torrents up by now.

Pretty good so far, it seems as though the show will focus on 3-4 characters of which are in different units so there's going to be alot more character development and jumping around.... I liked the idea of following a single company throughout the war ala band of brothers...

Bulls don't have udders either

Ah yes, hipsters... Brooklyn is apparently their mecca. I just hope they finally go away one day. I almost tried speed-dating but I was afraid of cougars (min age is like 24, I can't imagine people my age doing it in the first place) so sounds like I was right.

pc version of mw2, it would like you to connect to xbox live:

Wow, Deja Vu. Could've sworn I had seen that elsewhere.

I use it currently at work (paired with sketchup :roll: ) it is pretty sweet... I only wish sketchup had some decent animation tools.

I think that is the best CG work i've ever seen.

wow...

I'm not surprised I guess.

Everytime I open this thread I get pissed of more. Their whole design philosophy is just fucked. "Play it how we want you to play it"

Last I was taught we are supposed to cater design towards the user, but apparently that has changed now.

Just makes me wonder what their focus group testing is like, but it sounds like they never even bothered with that.

They aren't getting my $60. I doubt they will notice though seeing as they are swimming in a pool of cash thanks to the brotards on the consoles.

That last sentence was clearly biased and ignorant, but i'm just venting (and a little intoxicated)

AA was nice when we were all running games in 800x600 or 1024x760, but now with higher resolutions you don't really get as much of an improvement to performance ratio.