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Hate to break it to you bro, but: http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=33840&highlight=Kickstarter+Covers

I was listening to some Jedi Mind Tricks when I really no one mentioned the Army of Pharaohs Blood Tears song:

Just an update guys, but Nerdapalooza has just announced this years discounted rates for the hotel. The discount is $89/night in the Nerdapalooza block. Additionally the first 100 to reserve with the Nerdapalooza discount at the Orlando Airport Marriott will receive a 10% discount to the hotel’s restaurant for one meal at their stay. There's a little added bonus for any one who decides to get signed up early (assuming there's not 100 people booked already o.O) There's 2 ways to book your room right now: Either call 407-851-9000 or their toll-free number of 1-800-380-6751 and ask for 5th Annual Nerdapalooza Group Block. -or- Reserve online at this link, which will automatically take you to the Orlando Airport Marriott website with the discount code of nernera entered as the discount code.

It's been done ALL over the internet already using the "Fried-Egg" thing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agoapiToLAM Ark Music Factory even did it themselves.

In Florida, it's not really. Alcohol can only be sold in an liquor store. A lot of grocery stores here will have another store attached to them (but not within the actual same store) that sells alcohol. So ya'know...that's the equivalent of having "GameStop" and "GameStop 4 Adults"...which...sounds like a-...nm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agoapiToLAM HATS OFF TO ARK MUSIC FACTORY FOR THIS ONE.

Sounds like a typical Saturday morning for me.

srsly, I'd touch her junk and show her where the dick's at FOR SURE. Also: IT'S FUCKING FRIDAY, GUYS. GET EXCITED.

I searched Google News, and this is the only thing I could find relevant to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySPe0rQaPx4 In it he doesn't say it's inevitable, but he says it's a "Chernobyl in the making." From what I understand, Chernobyl used graphite as a neutron moderator. This was double bad because as the core heated up, so did the moderator, and graphite is also flammable, so everything gets too hot, boom, 25% of the core itself shoots up through the roof into the atmosphere, and well...massive radiation. In Japan, they use water as a neutron moderator. As the core heats up, the neutron moderator becomes inactive, which makes the reactions stop, which should in turn stop the core from heating up at a rapid pace. Also water won't EXPLODE from getting too hot. Darkesword could probably clarify, but that's just the situations as I understand them.

Fucking LOVE Ke$ha.

I had the same problem. She wakes up, gets in the car to go to school, school is then immediately not even mentioned and then it's Friday night? Why not just start the song AFTER SCHOOL? That would've made more sense. They also mention the bus twice, but she doesn't even RIDE THE BUS DDDDDD:

We were talkin' about this at work earlier. WHO'S GONNA DO EVERYONE'S BALLER HOOKS NOW? D: Apparently he's been deteriorating for awhile. He had a stroke awhile back.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-03-13/hydrogen-explosion-at-japan-s-fukushima-dai-ichi-no-3-reactor.html This does not bode well at all Also, from the article: Now, that's not fallout they're talking about, but am I to understand this is something different than what was previously said about the main concern being the nuclear waste getting into the water supply?

To answer this question, if you come the week before Nerdapalooza, it'll be 4th of July week. In all likelihood Orlando will be EXTREMELY busy during that time, which is why we avoid it for Nerdapalooza in general. The week itself would probably not be as bad, but I'd really advise just staying the week after.

That soccer one was pretty much the best thing ever.

None of the above. Yes.

Let's be honest here. She could be putting out some of the best songs EVER and the videos would be better than the songs. Just get naked. Geez. Post edited to improve thread quality: I agree with Flare4War

what? Yes!

Ohai. Also: yeaaa I'm prolly going to look into this one... I don't know how I feel about it being made easier. On one hand I'm feel like "man, what a bunch of babies", but on the other hand I feel like...how often to Japanese gamers complain about difficulty? o.o

lol, man rough theme is ROUGH. Not that it's a hard theme to fill it's just...cold bloodeddd

I honestly can't tell anymore if it's about cutscenes, or trailers, or what can be attained in modern graphics engines. Title =! Subject =! context

"The game engine can render the cutscenes" and "The cutscenes use the the same models as the game" Are both very different statements. Yes, Metal Gear solid cutscenes are rendering using the games graphic engine, rather than the a pre-render cutscene. HOWEVER if you think that a close-up on Snake's face is the same face that's when he's running around 20' from the camera, you're fooling yourself. Metal Gear also did a LOT of close-up shots, and very few wide shots, specifically so they can get away with they kind of stuff. Every shot has a different model, texture, bump map, normal map, that they dial up and down depending on how much is on the screen that they can work with. A lot of scenes have special models specifically for them. This is the same in rendered AND pre-rendered. So to answer your question as to whether or not we've reached an age where pre-rendered cutscenes are unnecessary: It depends on what they're doing. How many characters are on the screen? How detailed are those characters? What're they wearing? Body suites? Belts, chains, etc? Long flowing cloth? Short, static cloth? Are there explosions? Water? Hair? Fur? Is the background pre-rendered? Or a Matte? Or environment fogged? Is it a room? A city? A landscape? Is their motion blur? What FPS are we shooting for? Close in shot? Far away shot? Night? Day? Direct sunlight? Overcast? Rain? Snow? Is the snow particles or is it sprites? How fast is the wind moving? I could go on forever. So yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa it's not really so cut and dry. Also, on what seemed to be the actually subject based on the title, but seems to not actually be, I don't know? Photo-realism has never been beyond our grasp as a concept. There are sculptures from the renaissance that had veins and arteries and are practically 1:1 real life. We're just limited by the power of our hardware which.............THAT won't last long. But then you get into the whole problem where IRL looks so familiar to us that anything that looks even the slightest bit off looks extremely stranger because it looks kind of familiar but...off. Which is when the uncanny valley comes into play.

http://nerdapalooza.org/2011/03/04/march-of-the-nerds/ This year's dates and venue HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED. This year's Nerdapalooza is going to be absolutely BANANAS. Are YOU a bad enough dude to come to, Orlando, one of the countries GREATEST vacation spots, this summer to rock out with a bunch of nerds? ARE YOU?

I did my article this week on YouTube video optimization for bands and musicians. I replied to a lot of what people said here, echo'd a lot of what has been mentioned already, and threw in a bit more detail on some specific things. Also gave you a pretty substantial shoutout, Cyprus. Hope you can get a few more views out of it