I'm guessing that the quality of graphics is going to hit a ceiling within the coming years, where they just can't possibly get any better, or if they can, not better enough to really make a noticeable difference. I read an article a couple years ago speculating that the next big thing is going to be physics. Future gaming computers will not only need a graphics card, but also a separate card made specifically for handling the physics in games. So instead of having your computer slow to a crawl when a dozen people are fighting on the screen at once, computers will be able to handle tens of thousands of people.
Saturday, March 20, 2010
When the current generation of game consoles came out (PS3, 360, Wii), I said that there was nothing wrong with the last gen (PS2, Xbox, Gamecube) and the new consoles were happening too early. When I first heard that the NEXT generation of consoles will be here by 2012 at the earliest, I thought the exact same thing. Then I saw this NVIDIA demo.
I'm guessing that the quality of graphics is going to hit a ceiling within the coming years, where they just can't possibly get any better, or if they can, not better enough to really make a noticeable difference. I read an article a couple years ago speculating that the next big thing is going to be physics. Future gaming computers will not only need a graphics card, but also a separate card made specifically for handling the physics in games. So instead of having your computer slow to a crawl when a dozen people are fighting on the screen at once, computers will be able to handle tens of thousands of people.
I'm guessing that the quality of graphics is going to hit a ceiling within the coming years, where they just can't possibly get any better, or if they can, not better enough to really make a noticeable difference. I read an article a couple years ago speculating that the next big thing is going to be physics. Future gaming computers will not only need a graphics card, but also a separate card made specifically for handling the physics in games. So instead of having your computer slow to a crawl when a dozen people are fighting on the screen at once, computers will be able to handle tens of thousands of people.
Retired U.S. General John Sheehan says gay Dutch soldiers and "Liberalization" were responsible for Srebrenica Massacre
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Sheehan: “That led to a force that was ill-equipped to go to war. The case in point that I'm referring to is when the Dutch were required to defend Srebrenica against the Serbs. The battalion was understrength, poorly led, and the Serbs came into town, handcuffed the soldiers to the telephone poles, marched the Muslims off, and executed them. That was the largest massacre in Europe since World War II.”Committee Chairman Carl Levin: “And did the Dutch leaders tell you it was because of the gay soldiers there?Sheehan: “Yes, they did. They included that as part of the problem. That the combination was the liberalization of the military, a net effect was basically social engineering.”
This part wasn't in the video. Dutch Ambassador Renée Jones-Bos was in the room. He didn't take too kindly to what John Sheehan just said about his military.
"I take pride in the fact that lesbians and gays have served openly and with distinction in the Dutch military forces for decades, such as in Afghanistan at the moment. The military mission of Dutch U.N. soldiers at Srebrenica has been exhaustively studied and evaluated, nationally and internationally. There is nothing in these reports that suggests any relationship between gays serving in the military and the mass murder of Bosnian Muslims."
Almy: "As I mentioned in the hearing after the general made his statement, I was stationed in Europe. I have served right alongside with the Dutch military. I have been in the field on an exercise with the Dutch where my American unit served right beside the Dutch military, officers and enlisted, and there were absolutely no problems whatsoever, and the issue of sexual orientation or Don't Ask, Don't Tell never once came up. It just simply was not an issue between the American forces and the Dutch forces."When are these bigots going to stop making up these laughably embarrassing reasons to stamp out gay people, and just admit that the extent of their argument doesn't go any further than 'I hate faggots'? I wonder if Sheehan would think of applying his words to quite possibly the greatest military force that has ever walked the earth. Not only was homosexuality allowed within the Spartan military, it was encouraged. It was a huge morale booster. Really. Look it up.
Friday, March 19, 2010
Health Care? Crammed down MY throat?!
The House is voting on health care this Sunday. Democrats will be using a legislative process called reconciliation. Normally, 60 votes would be needed to pass this. It's too bad Congressional Democrats are a bunch of incompetent fuckwits, or else they might not have lost their 60 vote supermajority before they could actually accomplish something with it. Reconciliation is the answer. It only requires a simple majority, 51 votes. Plus, Republicans won't be able to use a filibuster to block the vote from happening.
Needless to say, Republicans have been shitting. Just watch Fox News for five minutes. How dare the majority try to pass something?! RECONCILIATION IS A DISGUSTING PARLIAMENTARY TRICK! (Not the filibuster though.) And Republicans should know. They love this trick. They set records doing this exact same thing in the 90s under Clinton. In fact, since its inception in 1974, Republicans have been responsible for 17 out of the 23 times reconciliation has been used to pass something. I guess that means Republicans are un-American?
Is reconciliation a shitty way to do things? It sure as hell is. It was originally meant to screw with fiscal things, deficits and surpluses, and other things I don't want to bother myself to understand. But just like every other rule Congress follows, it's been ass-raped to hell with different interpretations, and has long since lost its original purpose. But I don't give a shit. Congress is broken, and Congressmen like it that way. Nothing is going to change. We've wasted a year on this, so fuck it. If this is the only way it can happen, then let it happen.
And despite the fact that this health care debate has absolutely nothing to do with abortion, killing grandma, or fascist regimes, those are the only things Republicans can fucking talk about. They simply drop key phrases here and there to spark anger and prevent their supporters from thinking anything beyond that. A little like mobs. People would want this health care bill if they were actually smart enough to know what was in it. Hell, just ask Sarah Palin. She likes Canada's disgusting commie pinko health care so much, she crossed the border for it.
Gosh, I'm so glad we have such patriotic Americans fighting for patriotic American patriotism on our behalf. They're real Americans. Here's a few of them yelling at a man with Parkinson's disease on the street. They call him a communist, and mockingly throwing money in his face to "pay for his health care". An anger-keyword is also thrown in at one point, "handout." This video can't be embedded, it starts at :51. Maverick.
The woman at the end really pissed me off.
First of all, you obviously don't think health care should be reformed, or else you'd vote Democrat. Democrats are the only people who have ever tried to do something about it, while Republicans just stand in the way. And second, just because you're unable to read it or understand it doesn't mean everyone else is unable to. I'm not going to pretend this can't be a confusing issue, but Christ, have you even tried? Information is really easy to get to these days with the internet. Those first few paragraphs of this post explaining reconciliation? Almost all of that is from wikipedia. It's really not that fucking hard.
Most polls coming out are slightly leaning against health care. Polls should rarely be believed, but if these ones are accurate, it's really god damn depressing that so many people are this fucking dumb. This woman was the smartest republican they could find. Think about how many people there are who are dumber than her who can vote. America is so fucked.
Needless to say, Republicans have been shitting. Just watch Fox News for five minutes. How dare the majority try to pass something?! RECONCILIATION IS A DISGUSTING PARLIAMENTARY TRICK! (Not the filibuster though.) And Republicans should know. They love this trick. They set records doing this exact same thing in the 90s under Clinton. In fact, since its inception in 1974, Republicans have been responsible for 17 out of the 23 times reconciliation has been used to pass something. I guess that means Republicans are un-American?
Is reconciliation a shitty way to do things? It sure as hell is. It was originally meant to screw with fiscal things, deficits and surpluses, and other things I don't want to bother myself to understand. But just like every other rule Congress follows, it's been ass-raped to hell with different interpretations, and has long since lost its original purpose. But I don't give a shit. Congress is broken, and Congressmen like it that way. Nothing is going to change. We've wasted a year on this, so fuck it. If this is the only way it can happen, then let it happen.
And despite the fact that this health care debate has absolutely nothing to do with abortion, killing grandma, or fascist regimes, those are the only things Republicans can fucking talk about. They simply drop key phrases here and there to spark anger and prevent their supporters from thinking anything beyond that. A little like mobs. People would want this health care bill if they were actually smart enough to know what was in it. Hell, just ask Sarah Palin. She likes Canada's disgusting commie pinko health care so much, she crossed the border for it.
Gosh, I'm so glad we have such patriotic Americans fighting for patriotic American patriotism on our behalf. They're real Americans. Here's a few of them yelling at a man with Parkinson's disease on the street. They call him a communist, and mockingly throwing money in his face to "pay for his health care". An anger-keyword is also thrown in at one point, "handout." This video can't be embedded, it starts at :51. Maverick.
The woman at the end really pissed me off.
"We can all agree that health care does need to be reformed. But the manner in which it's being handled is unacceptable, no one's able to read it or understand it and it's just being crammed down out throats. It's going to cost us a lot of money, it's going to put small businesses out of work, and I'm just opposed to it."
First of all, you obviously don't think health care should be reformed, or else you'd vote Democrat. Democrats are the only people who have ever tried to do something about it, while Republicans just stand in the way. And second, just because you're unable to read it or understand it doesn't mean everyone else is unable to. I'm not going to pretend this can't be a confusing issue, but Christ, have you even tried? Information is really easy to get to these days with the internet. Those first few paragraphs of this post explaining reconciliation? Almost all of that is from wikipedia. It's really not that fucking hard.
Most polls coming out are slightly leaning against health care. Polls should rarely be believed, but if these ones are accurate, it's really god damn depressing that so many people are this fucking dumb. This woman was the smartest republican they could find. Think about how many people there are who are dumber than her who can vote. America is so fucked.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Friday, March 12, 2010
One of the greatest Americans alive introduces the Public Option
Awesome, can't wait to see the democrats do absolutely nothing with it.
Alan Grayson is such a hardass. His take-no-shit attitude reminds me a lot of Davy Crockett when he was a Congressman: "I bark at no man's bid. I will never come and go, and fetch and carry, at the whistle of the great man in the White House no matter who he is."
Sunday, March 7, 2010
As readers of this blog may or may not remember, I'm planning on making a graphic novel for my portfolio. This idea sort of fell on its ass for a while and I haven't been doing anything with it, but then about a week ago I spontaneously started drawing again. I've been reading drawing books on the human body, so that when I draw people, they won't look like stiff action figures. Let me tell you, trying to memorize all the muscle groups and getting it all to look right is really fucking hard. I sort of put it aside to begin with just because it was so frustrating.
Then yesterday, it literally just 'clicked.' I sat down, and I got it, I knew exactly what to do. I don't agonize over which line goes where anymore, I know where the muscle groups are supposed to be, and I do it.
Forgive the shitty digital camera photos, my scanner is currently out of commission.
I think I might need to work my on shading a bit more, but that's okay, because this is going to be in black and white, so it's not like the shading gradients need to be all that detailed anyway. I think my biggest problem is that I overthink fucking everything, and I obsess over the smallest little things that no one even cares about. Hopefully once I get into cartoony mode and begin to develop a style of my own, all of that will be drowned out.
I still can't decide if I'm going to ink everything on paper, or scan them and do it in Illustrator. I read that doing it digitally is gaining popularity, but it takes a lot longer. I might just have to invest in a tablet.
I'm really happy with these. I haven't started on the concept art for the novel yet, but I don't think that phase is too far off if I keep this up. Perspective still confuses me a bit though, so I'm going to nail that down before I start designing the weapons and ships and junk. I want this depiction of the future to be somewhat realistic, so I'm reading a couple books right now written by a collection of engineers and scientists speculating on what human colonization of space will look like. I also need to learn how to draw clothes. That's the whole point of drawing half naked people, once you're familiar with how the body moves and curves, it all just falls into place, because clothing just wraps around everything (you have to pretend it isn't on a flat plane and think three-dimensionally). I also won't really delve into this until I go through some actual professional work (Transmetropolitan, Walking Dead, The Boys) so I can actually have an idea of what I'm supposed to be doing. This is fun as hell.
Then yesterday, it literally just 'clicked.' I sat down, and I got it, I knew exactly what to do. I don't agonize over which line goes where anymore, I know where the muscle groups are supposed to be, and I do it.
Forgive the shitty digital camera photos, my scanner is currently out of commission.
I think I might need to work my on shading a bit more, but that's okay, because this is going to be in black and white, so it's not like the shading gradients need to be all that detailed anyway. I think my biggest problem is that I overthink fucking everything, and I obsess over the smallest little things that no one even cares about. Hopefully once I get into cartoony mode and begin to develop a style of my own, all of that will be drowned out.
I still can't decide if I'm going to ink everything on paper, or scan them and do it in Illustrator. I read that doing it digitally is gaining popularity, but it takes a lot longer. I might just have to invest in a tablet.
I'm really happy with these. I haven't started on the concept art for the novel yet, but I don't think that phase is too far off if I keep this up. Perspective still confuses me a bit though, so I'm going to nail that down before I start designing the weapons and ships and junk. I want this depiction of the future to be somewhat realistic, so I'm reading a couple books right now written by a collection of engineers and scientists speculating on what human colonization of space will look like. I also need to learn how to draw clothes. That's the whole point of drawing half naked people, once you're familiar with how the body moves and curves, it all just falls into place, because clothing just wraps around everything (you have to pretend it isn't on a flat plane and think three-dimensionally). I also won't really delve into this until I go through some actual professional work (Transmetropolitan, Walking Dead, The Boys) so I can actually have an idea of what I'm supposed to be doing. This is fun as hell.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Monday, March 1, 2010
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