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Not bad: the effects in particular were marvellous. I feel that it does have problems as a whole though, mostly down to what I assume is the way it's been shot.

I think I'm fairly safe in saying that this was a single-camera shoot, but I may be less safe in saying that for each angle that was shot in any given scene, a full run-through of the script wasn't done - rather, the camera was set up for each of the actors and they ran through their lines individually. It feels a bit stilted as a result. There's also a lot of audio inconsistencies that contribute to that feeling as well.

It also needs a bit more creativity with the cinematography - stuff like the megaton punch sequence, for example, needs to amp up the action with close-ups, quick cutting, motion, etc, not only to make the sequence more exciting, but also to make the juxtaposition between the charge up and the result all the more funny. As it stands, you're transitioning from one static shot to another, which dulls the impact and reduces the comedy.

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World does this incredibly well (in fact, every Edgar Wright film does - the guy is a friggin' master of comedic juxtaposition. I would be very surprised if Wright didn't grow up with Looney Tunes because a lot of the visual comedy techniques he does comes directly from them). Comedy is 100% about timing, and that's something that doesn't just come across in the script. It's found in editing, in audio cues, in camera movements - there's an incredible pile of tools to find comedy in a scene.

I hope this doesn't seem too harsh! Let me know if you want something clarified.

"It feels like they're performing on stage rather than on the screen."
I fail to see how the medium has anything to do with the quality of acting.

obj. file is fine. As long as I can open it in 3DS and export it as a STL.

Ubiquitous detailing and interactivity makes this map is a real treat to walk through, well done! I also liked the ending ;p

I'd have thought there wouldn't be a whole lot of variety there, but if the job even exists, I guess I'm wrong.

"TWHL's resident arsehole critic"

Never underestimate the impact of a missing comma... I would not like that job.

Don't know if it's the script of the actors but there's something about the acting that's really.. stiff. It feels like they're performing on stage rather than on the screen.

Humor isn't really up my street ( agree with jessie on the "you shot my phone you dick" was quite funny ), really good anyway for a small team.

Visual stuff was really, really good. The only reason I knew that the scene with the guy from limmy's show was CGI was the pre-prod shot of the greenscreen behind him. Those matrix-slowdown bits were really well done!

From Instant, TWHL's resident arsehole critic

I personally hate laptops. So this is not gonna happen at all.

Eh, it's not my kind of THING. Though I did like the "You shot my phone, you dick!" line.
Given your credits, should we be remarking upon the camera-work and visual effects? =P

I heard there's a character named "Striker". I wonder if he specializes in not letting others to cut him.

I looked at the thing and thought a thing about it.

I watched the intro only, but that looked really incredible m8!

Nice~ :3

Delightfully cheesy. More please.

Its crazy, but for some reason i liked it (must be the girl).

Your THING was good, always some space for improvement, but its good.

Sounds good, just let me know

As a bonus I will gift you what's left of my csgo inventory(after selling crates for your prize), OR you can just have the whole inventory as your prize--up to you

Hooray!

I would probably go for Steam games. I will have to find one that I might want though.

Okay, this is vastly nicer than what I was going to make anyway >.<

This might be the last active journal topic before Judgement day, keep it going!

I would like to upgrayedd my desktop pc, i.e., buy a brand new one, but I think I will copy bruce and buy a nice gaming laptop instead.. I never buy the warranty for anything but for something like this... I'm not sure what to do.

I'd rather buy a laptop today, but if I were to build a desktop PC, I'd try getting used parts that were high-end like in ~2010, because I always wondered how people don't realize hardware doesn't really degrade. And most games are crap nowadays anyway. Id also try to make it efficient and quiet and durable, no watercooling crap like now

and for the peripherals, yeah cheapest ones are the best, generic optical mouse, crappy 4:3 monitors are actually great for oldschool gaming like hl, quake, cs, they got fast response and usually ~80hz

Congrats TJB, you're winner of $25 cash or steam games

Get on steam or drop me an email/number to paypal to, mines is: captain0terror@gmail.com. Great work on your entry, and THANKS for participating m8! =P

Please also, enjoy this hastily-created commemorative profile award:

Suggested retail value: RUF 5.99!!!

Just a minute ago I noticed for the first time that the name of our friendly neighbourhood potato is not potasis_ivalid as I had thought, but potatis_invalid. Oh my.

Also, Happy New Year everyone!

blocked by a massive

A very believable Xmas-themed map, AND a tribute to one of my favorite action movies of all time!

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The map is very-realistically styled and detailed, and the overall xmas ambience is nice. The falling snow looked more pretty/natural than I've seen in Half-Life, well done!

Little details like the blinking lights and those custom models were a great touch. The main audio and the way it's faded, completes the theme perfectly. Hopefully we get some more entries! Prizes will be sent out day after New Years, so stay tuned!

BTW, Great job rebuilding the tree! It's cleaner, looks better in-game, and on the grid, well done

The whole pc life

Imagine this, a pin on the motherboard breaks (Intel), unless it was a power supply pin you are out of luck. AMD however you just stick a pin in the socket and you are good to go.

GPU's have come a long way since the 8000 series days and AMD no longer has issues. But anyway this is a common thing, people get bad luck with Nvidia they say AMD is better and vice versa.

No that I'm aware of IPS monitors, I'll DEFINITELY be saving my pennies for one

These hardware discussions are always so popular, maybe it's own forum might be beneficial in the future? Also might bring s'more fresh blood to the site...

He doe not provide an email, how doth we track him?!

Cs_canbunk today!
Cs_canbunk tomorrow!
Cs_canbunk FOREVER!

DON'T MESS WITH CS_CANBUNK 2015

At least NINE years of intrigue.

People that MIGHT be able to put an end to this:

Seventh-Monkey
MASTeRmiNd
Andy
Skeeve

TIME TO TRACK THEM DOWN.

^ Winner!* =P

*An official Red Ryder carbine-action 200-shot range model air rifle with a compass in the stock and a thing which tells time.

Is that a Red Ryder?

It's a mystery.

Sure! Since yours will probably be the sole entry, take whatever time you need m8

I'll fix the download removing those wads, thanks for letting me know!

Update

• Removed Textures used from Tools.wad/Dev1.wad from the basemap source.
• Recompiled xmastree_basemap/xmastree_ct without the above wads.

I don't think I will be done on time.

...unless "by the 27th" means "by the end of the 27th".

It seems there are some wads needed for the bsp files, tools.wad and dev1.wad, I've just been renaming copies of zhlt.wad to replace them.
I'm also currently working on my entry.

Khaaan! Marwoooood!

SOMEBODY must have this saved somewhere....

Well Seventh and Andy played the map, maybe they could describe it to us, so we might go about recreating it? =PP

You're confusing me quite a lot now lol. A lot of different opinions has been said here, but what I really should do?

That's like asking so many people who know/don't know about Borderline Personality Disorder and asking them whether to give your cheating BPD girlfriend a chance or not, knowing she can do it again and etc and just fuck your emotional life up entirely. Trust me, it's meant to confuse you.

nfs sucked since underground

The main problem is that everyone of you here is actually right.

So I feel like I have to clarify some more things, just to let you know why I prefer this instead of that and so on.

• I prefer Nvidia rather than AMD because I've always had problems with AMD video cards; such as drivers, Catalyst random crashes, artifacts in 3D games, fucked up shadows, fog and other particle effects decreasing FPS by a big amount (30-40 approx), specularity on surfaces/textures not loading or being neutral/white, etc...).

I also prefer Nvidia because it has Nvidia 3D Vision and some other things that AMD doesn't have.
I've had 4 different AMD video cards, and all of them gave me problems. And I've had 3 different Nvidia video cards. I've never had any problem with them in any possible way. That's probably why they costs more than AMD ones (same thing with AMD CPUs.)
My last AMD video card was an ATI Radeon HD 3650 512 MB (could be compared with an half-way of Nvidia 8600-8800 I guess, in terms of performance) and I remember having many problems, most of them with drivers and Catalyst.

I prefer to purchase new things because of the warranty. Used stuff, most of the times, doesn't have warranty.

I don't like how AMD CPUs are built; they look more fragile than Intel ones (like the pins story I've told you in my previous post), and their coolers are utter shit as I keep messing up when I have to unmount and mount them to reapply the thermal paste, or just for a common full PC cleanup every 2-3 months or so. It's a pain in the ass for me to be honest.

So yeah, since we all arrived at a point where the current build I've made isn't bad, I want to thank you all for your comments and valuable suggestions. They will sure help me out in my future build as this is just a test. I'll probably change some things with better ones in the course of the time as the prices keeps decreasing.

One last question for you guys: is still good/better to do triple channel with RAM? I've heard it's faster. Though it's hard to find motherboards that makes you do triple channel nowadays, as far as I know.

P.S.: Don't worry Urbeh, my next GFX configuration will be a Quad SLI of GTX TITAN Z all overclocked! So I will be the "King of PC"! Muahahaha! <3

No worries mate, Merry Christmas! =)

I don't think anyone else is gonna join, but if you still wanted to sumbit something by the 27th, you'd get a prize ^_^

Damn, I had noticed this when I wasn't at home, but I'd forgotten about it until now. Seeing as it's 6pm on Christmas day, I don't think I'm eligible to enter.

As they say, its all up to you to decide what do you like and what do you want to buy.

But you can also take every ones info into thought and do some research - Why would I buy used part? Why should I go for AMD graphic? Will cheaper brand headphones benefit me less? Etc.

Each will have an + and - in your book and doing such research will help you grasp on things much more easily in the future to decide what do you want for your self.
You have all these information in front of you, make some knowledge out of it before making your decision.

There is the cheaper option - AMD.
Can't tell you much about it because i never had an AMD cpu or gpu, but i heard it makes for a good budget gaming rig. FX-8350 costs as much as an i5 and has 8 cores if you decide to render things, albeit they are not truly 8 core as they say, but it performs admirably. Its also a tad on the hot side, but when have ever AMD cpu's been cool

Yeah, definitely just buy what you think is best value and don't let other people's opinions confuse you too much.

What I do is look at benchmarks to see what the better value between different things are. I use http://videocardbenchmark.net. (The same company has a CPU benchmark site too)

For example, using two cards mentioned on this page:

GeForce GTX 970 - 8648 points - €363 (new) = 23.8 points per €
AMD R9 290 - 6530 points - €270 (used) = 24.2 points per €

We can see from this example that a new GTX 970 is almost exactly the same value as a used R9 290, so it's probably better to get the GTX 970 based on this example. You want to get the best value for money - sometimes that might mean spending a bit more, but it will last longer and give you better return on your investment in the long term.

Seriously though, get what you want.
Your system there is solid enough and if you wish to make some minor tweaks you can easily simply change a few things, don't feel pressured to conform to other people's personal preferences.

There's problems and faults in both manufacturers. If anything I've found Nvidia to make more major fuckups then AMD, especially in terms of keeping up with technology which is a big nono. (Nvidia FX lineup and NVidia 200 series)

Maybe back in 1990 ATI had drivers problems, but who the fuck is using a Rage II nowadays anyways? But I digress.

And yes, that is my cpu but I have more memory, a better graphics card and hard drive. The only games that do not run well on high settings 1680x1050 are terribly coded console ports. Even when I was running my older GTX 280 (therefore my knowledge of aforementioned technology issues), metro 2033 ran fine on high.