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AMAZING SCREW ON HEAD AMAZING SCREW ON HEAD: (I'm not allowed to post more than two videos at a time, I don't know how you guys got away with it.)

An earlier short from Sylvain Chomet (Triplets of Belleville): Possibly the most spectacular short off the Robot Carnival anthology:

Neat early Otomo short from an 80s anthology. Humorous enough: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0VE7dh1pK8

Some choice stuff from Genius Party, Masaaki Yuasa (first clip) is one of my favorite animators ever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6wyfM3SSCc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIdw0Ipr5z8

Koji Morimoto stuff (mostly only known in the U.S. for Beyond on the Animatrix): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw6TwYXwBjA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SfinT9UOXw

That is not a Pixar short. I_Smell already has some of my favorites in recent years. Here's some others, mostly old, which people may like: These guys have done some crazy work combining 2D and 3D.

In terms of Flash as an animation program, it still stands to be an easy way to fuck around and teach yourself animation without a lot of stuff to worry about or mess with. Traditional (assuming you have a drawing tablet) or tween stuff. That said, it's really shitty and lacking in features compared to more professional grade stuff now.

The problem is, just like nuclear energy, video games also have the potential to kill people.

You know, I personally wouldn't take advice from a person who calls themselves Mr. Sex. I smell a murder plot.

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Those tears look like parasitic worms crawling from his eyelids.

Ah that makes sense. I think I was so turned around that I didn't know I was near the middle, but it appears I was.

Finished colossus 3 Friday, and I'm really starting to warm up to this game despite some frustrations. I mostly feel lost concerning controls and whether or not I'm able to do certain things. So jumping to the hanging platform to get to no. 3 was the first confusing moment as I was actually able to make it in the first jump but could not figure out how to jump sideways to the main platform at first. I was trying to do a Prince of Persia type thing where I push the controller away and just press jump, but my character kept jumping upwards. So instead, since I knew you could hold triangle to jump straight up from a ledge you were hanging on for greater height, I kept trying to get on top of the broken path way so I could jump from there. I eventually ran out stamina and fell into the water to the boring swimming sequence. I proceeded to miss the platform 6-7 times, swimming again, before I got on and finally figured out to hold to jump sideways. I guess that should have dawned on me much earlier than that. Also I could not precisely tell, but when I swim underwater, am I swimming faster? Seemed so.

Hey that was a really cool animation! Very stylish, made me think of Studio 4C stuff in a lot of the animation methods.

Hay is this another thread about Luftmensch?

I was posting at another where no one read the board. I thought TFOutpost had a rule against selling items for real money, but upon rereading I *think* they don't.

Hahaha, this never gets old. Holy shit, that's scary!

Whoa! I didn't even know you could climb the trees! Argggghhhhh, that would have things much easier!

Thanks for the write up, smell, you're impressions are making me feel a lot better than I was hoping. Haha this is bad of us to turn the ZoE thread into the Metal Gear Rising thread.

Feel bad for Vigil, they were one of the few Austin studios right now trying to be self sufficient and make worthwhile games. I heard a few guys give a talk here among Harvey Smith and some other companies a few weeks ago and the two Vigil guys seemed incredibly optimistic about their future. Hopefully they'll at least keep the optimism and reform.

The lizards are stupid hard to find, because I can't really see them unless I know where to look. I'm sure this is a case where having the HD version helps immensely. Best place to get a surefire white tailed lizard is at every save temple as there will always be one crawling around on it or the ground nearby. Some save temples have three lizards where you leave and come back to get the next. Fruits are really hard to see unless they are orange, since often they are a beige color or an off green, making them really difficult to see.. They seem to only exist in large standing trees (look sort of like pines), trees that are bent, and the small trees around these. Don't bother looking around in the forested areas with tons of trees, since the designers were nice enough to have some mercy and not place them randomly around those areas.

I still haven't sold my Max head for real money. I can't seem to find a good place that allows the cash.

My dad was well aware he shouldn't do that, but he felt just telling me not to touch them was enough. No amount of lecturing my dad would have changed a thing. Just like he still doesn't wear a seat belt unless he's pulled over to shit on your, "Dad turn the safety on!" analogy earlier as it's just as simple as a kid nagging to wear a seatbelt right? You do realize that using fringe cases to say gun education as it exists is useless? Adam Lanza obviously had serious mental issues. As extensively talked about pages ago in the thread, it's beyond a matter of teaching. Again, less access, less deaths. If a person who wants to kill someone can't get a gun, he won't shoot someone. Very simple. Again, proving the point that you guys are arguing stuff you don't believe just for the sake of playing devil's advocate. These stats don't exist. Very obviously this is not overnight thing. Again silly useless distraction. I think I've pretty much said all I can say on the matter. I don't see how any of you are going to combat the very simple logic of less guns being in circulation and no access to automatic weapons will lead to less gun deaths. Every hypothetical argument and all these silly unrelated analogies and anecdotes are a distraction, and I'm pretty bored with repeating myself in this thread and will back out for now. :tup:

On the original Xbox you could download already down DLC from Live by the time Psychonauts was released. I think outside of PC games, Microsoft was the only ones with a console service actively doing this. Off the top of my head I know there were extra downloadable levels for both Warrior Within and Armed and Dangerous, although there was no purchase required in either case.

This is not a mandatory gun safety class about self defense and gun handling. This is an elective sport and all of the gun clubs in that article were sport oriented. Crazed hunters seem to generally not be the problem here, not at all the same. Well, this is a silly and hypothetical anecdote, because I can counteract the point that I never fucked around with my dad's 3 rifles that were just left in a closet (irresponsible, yep). I knew better and I had no interest in the danger involved, mostly because I was told along the way not to. And you know what, neither of our stories really matter because they are anecdotal and not really representative as a whole. I think because we are on a message board of generally reasonable people, we are not really having our great stories of gun availability leading to death and rampages at an early age either by ourselves or people we have known. I must say in my four years of high school there were four gun shot suicide from people using their parents guns. I was friends with one of them. His dad was a gun nut, owning way too many and safari hunting with tons of stuffed dead animals in one room in their house. At a young age the guy was tasked with shooting sick or dying cows on their farm in the head. The environment was already way fucked and violence oriented before he shot himself in the head. Needless to say, easy access to guns during a depressed period in his life made suicide a very simple option. On top of that, his older brother three years later ended up shooting a police man three times from his car window after being pulled over. Guy was licensed to carry his firearm but now he's in prison. It seems most of you guys playing the Devil's Advocate and talking about the virtues of the 2nd Amendment do so while at the same time constantly conceding we still need more gun control and that gun violence is a major issue. Weapons bans and stricter gun control follows a very simple logic: less guns in circulation, especially bullet sprayers and things like more limited magazines, lead to less chances of drastic measures taken by mental "revolutionary" right wingers, angry people, poor people, criminals, children, the depressed, gangs, and pampered suburbanite teens and young adults on a rampage. All the scolding and talking to in the world doesn't prevent those who want to and are ready to kill. It's really simple, you can't predict when someone will get out of hand with a gun, so if they don't have one, the ease of the kill is taken away. I keep hearing on NPR during my morning commute that 70% of Americans are for stricter gun control. While I have no idea of their survey pool, it seems to me outside of loud white older white guys, most of the newer generation in our country is ready for the gun obsession to die. So I think what's going to happen here based on the recent news is that the NRA will continue to look foolish, weapons manufacturers will continue to lobby democrats and republicans for loose laws to keep filling their deep pockets, and the constituents who want stricter gun control or weapons bans will be ignored. Therefore we will keep getting loosely enforced half assed laws that are for looks more than effectiveness.