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Okay you're warned, film SLR fanatic rant inbound.

I was always under the impression that a DSLR is supposed to be a SLR but with a digital imaging sensor instead of film. There are certain sacrafices that would have to be made such as a LCD screen for review and troubleshooting etc of course, but one thing I never could understand for the life of me is what possible good reason could they EVER have for removing the shutter speed and ISO dials!? (And indirectly the exp comp dial) It's all the same as making lenses out of plastic and removing the aperture dial and focusing scale!
Their presence could not possibly interfere with further progress of the camera, could they? Was it truly necessary to remove all these useful dials and replace them with a shitty hollow plastic do-it-all-through-500-menus dial?

Well, maybe I'm not entirely crazy, because Nikon has decided it's not right either:Yes, that is a DSLR with a shutter speed, ISO and Exposure Compensation dial. The lens doesn't have a aperture dial, but if you want high build quality you can always pick up a manual focus lens because they still work on newer Nikons.

I know this is a newer generation of 'ooh-shiny', but I can't be the only one who cares about this stuff, right? Right?

Maybe I just have too much passion and come across as a pedantic control freak. Whatever, I'm just happy that somebody else acknowledged it and decided to do something about it.

It's the exact same thing--Creating the illusion of motion by blending multiple frames together. Whether it be ghosting, interlacing or blurring.

But I don't think this is worth a full page discussion. Just a constructive suggestion, that's all.

And the project is looking great, by the way. Hard to find commitment like that nowadays.

Hmm I'm confused then--Why would you record at a higher framerate to avoid 'stutter', and then downsample it to a lower framerate and not call it motion blur?
The 'stutter' from a low framerate is the lack of motion blur.

I'm simply saying that if you're going to apply motion blur you should do it properly which takes little effort.

If you're going to apply motion blur, do it correctly with the proper tools. Post-applied MB looks cool but isn't as accurate as rendering out at the correct framerate and downsampling accordingly.

See: SrcDemo

Not trying to be a hardass, just my endless pursuit of doing it better speaking for me.

Definitely can never be ashamed of good glass or a good body man. It actually looks pretty cool to be honest, nice metallic shine!

Picked up this entire kit + a pretty good Bridge camera for $30! Score!And no, I do not own an insubordinate amount of camera equipment.
I sold all of my (Really nice) photography equipment for booze and cigarettes and other drugs when I was dealing with depression. So I'm back to square one, buying all my equipment over again. ):

I don't believe in any 'enhancers' 'boosters' 'fixers' 'uppers' 'downers' etc.

Drugs are an easy and most often complete horseshit way out of putting any real work in fixing problems. I believe in the old fashioned way of dealing with mental problems: Find out why you are having issues, find out how to fix these issues, and then do it.
It's not hard, nor does it take that much time. I've done it, it's the only reason I'm alive right now.

Say you take a drug and it makes your problems, whatever they may be, go away.
But then, it stops working. Now you're popping even stronger drugs to get the same result as before, until you can't increase the dosage anymore. Now, because you don't actually know what was causing your problems in the first place, you have no way to deal with them other than going to different drugs... I keep drugs out of my life, I'd much rather endure constant discomfort and pain than pop any painkiller or any medication of any type. I had the option of taking medication for anxiety that would supposedly magically make all my anxiety go away and make me super sharp, but it also ran the risk of making me go completely insane (psychosis etc).

I had to endure almost all of my depression and anxiety, after doing a little bit of alcohol maintenance on myself. There is no greater nor deeper pain than depression, and no greater discomfort than anxiety.
But I hung on, no matter how much it hurt and how scary it got, because I believed I could, and I did.

Ultimately, relying on having to pay a large sum of money for something that somebody else engineered to 'fix' all of my problems in life (I'm still young, life is going to get a lot scarier) didn't appeal to me.

I mean, don't get me wrong, if drugs work for you by all means don't worry about it... But I personally believe everybody should be educated on mental conditions before they have the option to take psychiatric drugs.

The redistribution\usage of ripped content is not the illegal part (Well, I'm pretty sure it is illegal actually), it is the decompilation\reverse engineering of the software that you get the ripped assets out of that is illegal.
It doesn't matter if you're using ripped content for cancer research, the act of reverse engineering without permission is illegal. It just depends on whether or not the developers care about it.

OR. You could add a key 'weapon' that doesn't do anything but has a viewmodel, and then add a trigger on top of it that would unlock the door, then strip weapons after you use the door. Hopefully you only have the key and the player cannot pick up other weapons along the way, because that's the simplest concept I can think of.

I guess I'll try to pitch too, but I just have a steam account and no CD keys, sorry!Maybe good if you have a friend that is into RTS games or portal, and doesn't have a steam account. I don't have a lot to offer, I'm poor!

Medal of honor? haha

Hmm, Crysis 2 Origin?

I'd take Steam Mirror's Edge if you don't mind.

EDIT: FUCK! NO! 1338 posts!

I wholeheartedly regret making a fast buck off of my AE-1 and it's lenses.
Fuck it's been way too long since I've had quality glass and a quality body.The difference in viewfinders [manual focus/consumer dslr] is absolutely staggering.

That's a bit redundant. If it's that necessary just ask one of the many members that own server space to host/mirror it.

Fucking double post, and completely broken formatting.

proper formatting here

I only do it that way because I store everything in the subfolders and not just the .max files, so that I have a full snapshot of all the revisions.
[Screenshots, videos, reference images etc]

I make subfolders.

3dsmaxscenesguns

pistols
M9 [M9.max]
OLD
[Revision numbers]
92FS

WHY would you save a CSGO SDK map and try to open it in SRCSDK, expecting it to work?

In hindsight the shit I posted here is shit... Can't believe I couldn't see that.

Did a walkaround today and couldn't find anything worth snapping, except maybe construction sites [which there are plenty of]. Living in a barren, boring town sucks.What a shit reintroduction into photography.

The first point seems like "at least it isn't admitting it's attempting to rip off Minecraft!" which I don't get.

He stated the exact opposite.

Anybody who thinks vanilla is clearly wrong and my opinion of chocolate is undeniably right no matter what.

A little sloppy but I'm happy with how it turned out.

WELL, I MEAN, SPOILERS ARE COOL

That's odd. I'm using the worst machine money couldn't even buy and it still runs perfectly fine. 1.7MB is pretty small even for a gif.

Contracts was the best IMO.

EDIT: Actually as it turns out assault rifles are very commonplace, with only 9 states actually banning them\having strict regulation on them.

Enforcing strict regulation on automatic rifles & submachine guns would help a fuckton, but removing weapons entirely is a pretty stupid choice.

extremist opinions here
[both pro-gun & anti-gun, not singling your opinion out]

If some psycho murders somebody with a tyre iron, then it wouldn't be illogical to place blame on the tyre iron instead of the psycho who used it.
Therefore, we should ban tyre irons and remove them from circulation.

Blame the sick fucks that abuse tools, not the tools. The tools aren't capable of killing innocent people on their own.

they are trying to throw the blame onto something else, how pathetic is that?

Funny that you say that, considering you do the exact same thing with guns instead of video games.

Er, forestock\forearm? Never even heard of that term, apparently that's what it's called.

The stock and foregrip turned out really poopy. I'm just gonna delete them and start over.

Canada\US\Australia aren't on that list, so it's all good.

The only screenshot that even looks vaguely similar to D2 is the second one, and that doesn't even resemble underpass\mid that much.

What happened to the original Splinter Cell gameplay

It was shit. Only Chaos Theory & Double Agent were marginally enjoyable.

A FOV below 105 should only ever be used for cinematic's purposes, in my opinion.

Don't upload raw files. Compress them.

H264 Encoder

Don't you fucking dare tell me that I need to be open-minded.

Quote of the year right here, ladies.

Amazon has a pay-to-opt-out advertising scheme

hey let's pay a fuckload of money to use a device to look at ads that will only go away with more money

That looks great Skals. Looks more like a default model [that came with a game] then a custom made asset.

What's a simile?

Urby hasn't even posted here...

Thanks Skals, though it's hardly AAA worthy, haha.Almost done. Need to redo the magazine because it ended up looking like poop.

Seemingly all the other parts of my [previously completed] M16 have disappeared. Oh well.

EDIT: I also appear to have given my M16A4 full auto capabilities. Oops.

I think you guys are missing the point entirely. He's not looking for a gaming rig so suggesting highend-midrange cards for +$100 is a joke.

The 6450 seems like the best bang for the buck, so I'd get that.
If you're running 3D, video editing or photo editing programs then 2GB of ram is not going to do you worth shit. Upgrade it.

Penguinbody

I would be cautious about getting an Acer, some say they break fast.

Acer, Dell and Gateway are worthless shit. Stay away from all of them.

I meant fuck it in a different way

<snip> Yeah just fuck it.

This entire thread is invalid now that he's brought the site back up. You're a hypocrite.

I am not trying to stir up anything. I'm trying to [friendly, not negatively] explain to Philip why I believe his decision was wrong.
My posts might've sounded overtly negative but that was not my intention. Obviously Philip didn't take them as overtly negative based off of his response, so I really don't see what everybody's problem is. Just relax.

<snip>

Because we have done so for however long. As I said, the original owner either had personal problems or did not wish to take care of the site anymore, and he passed control down to somebody else whom I do not know. Then the same thing happened again and we got Penguinboy.
If the original owner[s] [of twhl] acted the same way you did, you wouldn't even be discussing it right now, twhl wouldn't even exist anymore.

It has nothing to do with severity of the problem or the why you can't maintain the website... It's just the attitude of refusing to seek help that I'm trying to point out.
I know whatever happened must've been fucking serious and I'm not trying to dispute that, not trying to say it's anything other than what you're making it out to be.

And Terror, this is a discussion worth having. If you don't think it is, that's your opinion and you are entitled to it, but you could just simply not post if you do not wish to partake in it.

Also Philips, just if you're seeing this as blowing up in your face or whatnot, this is just how twhl is. We have 30-50 something active members, and seemingly everything other than problem threads and cat threads suddenly locks the interest of every member on the website. [Drama threads]

But yet, if you had a daughter and you had personal things come up, you would totally just cease to care for her, leave her in the middle of nowhere to attend whatever personal things may arise. Instead of getting somebody to take care of her, or dropping her off at home.
We understand personal problems, everybody here has a life too, but you can deal with those personal problems without completely shutting down the website.

But, of course, you don't. You're too concerned with maintaining control over your website and refuse to give it to others, and so instead of passing the torch down to somebody who can handle it while you attend your personal business, you just shut it down entirely. To me, that just sounds selfish.

If we ran TWHL that way, it wouldn't even be here right now. It would be gone, because the torch never would've passed down however many people to Penguinboy who has volunteered [or chosen] to run the site whilst the previous owner deals with whatever personal business that had prevented him from doing so.
Because of this 'torch passing', the community is still here. And it has come a long way since it's inception.