...The family name Opisthoproctidae is derived from the Greek words opisthe 'behind' and proktos 'anus'.
(, Mon 13 Dec 2021, 19:23, Reply)
For three-handed aliens.
(yes, yes, I know - played with the feet for four-way independence. Absolute bonkers).
(, Mon 13 Dec 2021, 18:03, Reply)
and a great visualisation of the music.
his hungarian rhapsody No. 2 is phenomenal
(, Tue 14 Dec 2021, 21:54, Reply)
They are playing the right notes when you look at the keyboard but it's coming out a tone flat. So it's actually in Toccata and Fugue in C minor.
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Look at her, with her nibble, dextrous fingers teasing excitement from a swelling organ. And she gets the clap.
(, Mon 13 Dec 2021, 15:41, Reply)
The Quanderhorn Experimentations (available on BBC Sounds) which is worth a listen just for Kevin Eldon playing Guuuurk.
Ethel Smith - Monkey on a string: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZj4Cm3_mbo
(, Mon 13 Dec 2021, 18:27, Reply)
Uncanny valley and all that, but personally the thing that usually breaks my suspension of disbelief is when I notice that the studio only paid the artists enough for three different graffiti tags.
(, Mon 13 Dec 2021, 9:12, Reply)
It's all very impressive, although I think many gamers are going to struggle to keep their expectations in check. This is still just a tech demo after all, and although I do suspect we'll be seeing games with the kind of visual fidelity seen during the car chase segments in the next few years, they are by no means just around the corner.
The open-world walkaround segments are still bloody impressive, but console owners (in particular) are an entitled lot, and I suspect Unreal teasing them with footage such as this is going to end in a similar fashion to the reception that Cyberpunk received on the PS4 last year. This is a sandbox at the end of the day and they aren't going to get anywhere close to these kinds of visuals and get 60 or 120(!) fps and get 4K resolution in a fully fleshed out GTA style game on their PS5 or Xbox Series X any time soon.
The Nanite technology is absolutely fascinating, though - and I reckon a lot of people aren't going to give it the attention it deserves simply due to how visually stunning the demo is. Digital Foundry have done a really good analysis on it which is well worth a watch, even if computer games aren't really your thing.
(, Mon 13 Dec 2021, 9:58, Reply)
I mean yes, the tech is important, but useless if all you have to show is orange boxes and t-posing NPCs. Just as good geometry needs good textures, good tech needs good assets.
I wonder just how many man-hours have been spent on drawing mipmaps onto bricks...
(, Mon 13 Dec 2021, 10:07, Reply)
instant flashback
(, Mon 13 Dec 2021, 10:05, Reply)
Perhaps given the setting you can sort of understand it.
(, Mon 13 Dec 2021, 10:09, Reply)
The police car detonating on contact with the bus didn't do that for you?
(, Mon 13 Dec 2021, 14:23, Reply)
Or indoor gunplay, for that matter.
It’s obvious that real people can’t fly, but I have no issue with that sort of thing so long as it looks like a real person.
(, Mon 13 Dec 2021, 14:38, Reply)
I may have a mild astigmatism but the world does not look anything like this for anyone, surely.
Also, fucking hell the cast got OLD. Gives me a new appreciation for Dave's Red Dwarf.
(, Mon 13 Dec 2021, 16:23, Reply)
I want to see what's going on in the game, but not act as the camera operator as well.
(, Tue 14 Dec 2021, 15:06, Reply)
but the physics is still the killer. Nothing moves quite right, nothing connects with the rest of the world properly. It's weird how it's all progressed so far but you can still tell the fake stuff by the way clothing doesn't drape right. I guess some things are just difficult.
Looks about as real as a lot of the second and third films. Maybe that's the bar they set.
(, Mon 13 Dec 2021, 23:41, Reply)
Dr Ros Jones sensible viewpoint on jabbing the youth...
Heed Well.
(, Mon 13 Dec 2021, 7:01, Reply)
Unless this is satire...Is this satire? Poe's law and all that
(, Mon 13 Dec 2021, 7:23, Reply)
One doctor says something they agree with? Great, then that overrules the thousands of doctors who say the opposite, because *they're* obviously wrong!
(, Mon 13 Dec 2021, 8:14, Reply)
but there is this kind of odd assumption in anti-vaxxers, like 9-11 conspiricy theorists, that because their position is contrary to authority or orthodoxy, that therefore it's more credible. It's "most people are against us, therefore we must be right". That these dickwits, youtube jocks, fringe scientists often talking outside their field (like the retired paediatrician above giving her opinion on epidemiology and public health policy) who they turn to, are somehow not out to exploit them and generate hits or a profile for themselves, while actual scientists and experts are. It's not an intellectual position, it's an "Us-who-know-the-real-truth" club that you join, and it attracts the kind of people whose personality that appeals to.
(, Mon 13 Dec 2021, 10:16, Reply)
My partner's step-sister is one roll away from going full tinfoil. She occasionally asks searching questions about stuff I deal with at work (pharmaceutical manufacturing) like "but how do you know what's in vaccines?", which is fair enough and she is quite right to challenge assumptions. The problem is that she doesn't subject her own views/opinions to the same scrutiny. So maybe it's down to a lack of self-awareness.
I try to avoid her, though. Last time I saw her, she asked if I could get hold of some Ivermectin because Joe Rogan was taking it.
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That's the other attribute that is astonishingly common in the conspiracy-minded: extreme gullibility. It's like they're overcompensating for being credulous fools by projecting it onto everyone else.
(, Mon 13 Dec 2021, 14:57, Reply)
Fuck off you dumb cunt. It depresses me beyond words how the dumbest fuckwits are convinced they are smart.
You're a dangerous moron in case you hadn't worked that out yet
(, Mon 13 Dec 2021, 7:44, Reply)
have been all about watching people go insane on social media.
(, Mon 13 Dec 2021, 11:19, Reply)
and there's always been a flow of people getting into conspiracy theory and anti-vax/anti-science/woowoo bollocks. It's more mainstream now, but I imagine the ratio of vaguely sane to batshit has remained fairly stable.
I have no evidence to back this up, obviously.
(, Mon 13 Dec 2021, 17:19, Reply)
But rather the weak-willed and hypersuggestible members of contemporary society are significantly more vulnerable to fuckwit conspiracy theories and the like thanks in no small part to the prevalence of social media.
Before the turn of the millennium, (besides a moronity of conspiracy theory enthusiasts meeting up in church halls/on usenet/etc) people's general level of fuckwittery didn't really exceed old wife's tales about taking hot baths as an alternative to the morning after pill and so on.
But these days, nonsense like Qanon, 5G mind control projects, etc are being pumped into their brains en masse by the world's largest gathering of neckbeards.
There aren't more of them. Just a significantly larger audience.
(, Mon 13 Dec 2021, 20:08, Reply)
...have you been a moron this entire time or is that just a recent thing?
(, Mon 13 Dec 2021, 9:00, Reply)
you total fucking bellend
you cunt
you moronic arsehole twat
you stupid fucking cockend
fuck off
(, Mon 13 Dec 2021, 9:01, Reply)
"This is a setup, she is pretending to be on our side while claiming 90% of the UK is jabbed which is aimed to make us feel small through the power of positive reinforcement because she pretends to be coming from a good place. Reverse psychology."
Everything is a conspiracy to these thick nutters.
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You're already on the list.
-o +a
(, Mon 13 Dec 2021, 14:12, Reply)
Nah, this one's just tedious. They didn't even stick around to defend their viewpoint.
The one from Wednesday is far more entertaining:
b3ta.com/links/1578320#post1578335
(, Mon 13 Dec 2021, 16:16, Reply)
Well you've not been around much lately. We've got to get our entertainment where we can.
(, Mon 13 Dec 2021, 17:22, Reply)
Pleasant tune I stumbled on while looking for something else.
(, Sun 12 Dec 2021, 23:57, Reply)
feels like Christmas now
(, Sun 12 Dec 2021, 22:26, Reply)
christmas single for the Tressell Trust makes The Millennium Prayer sound classy.
(By which I mean it uses a sample, rather than comparatively)
(, Sun 12 Dec 2021, 23:04, Reply)
A fun ride through almost 60 years of mid-budget British TV.
(, Sun 12 Dec 2021, 21:29, Reply)
When all four start singing they're so well matched it sounds hardly any different to just two of them.
(, Sun 12 Dec 2021, 17:43, Reply)
and ensuring that for no longer shall we be forced to listen to naturally talented artists.
(, Sun 12 Dec 2021, 21:42, Reply)
Very difficult wank 1 out of 10
(, Sun 12 Dec 2021, 16:02, Reply)
Not sure I could for Toyah though
(, Sun 12 Dec 2021, 18:17, Reply)
Sperm gardens, spit snacks and bogey daggers
(, Sun 12 Dec 2021, 8:47, Reply)
But my Mum cleaned it all up with bleach and grounded me.
(, Sun 12 Dec 2021, 10:22, Reply)
Confining you to your room for that seems like it would be counterproductive.
(, Sun 12 Dec 2021, 12:19, Reply)
If I keep myself sufficiently hydrated, I should be able to produce enough splooge between now and next Halloween to assemble a Papier-mâché Savile mask out of semen and old Kay's catalogue pages! How's about that, then?!
(, Sun 12 Dec 2021, 13:12, Reply)
I used to be a member of a shooting club, the range was two parallel pipe tunnels 110 yards long. There were shockwaves a bit like that when one bloke fired his Mosin Nagant M44, which also produced a bloody great flame out of the muzzle:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlRG-AfaDac
(, Sat 11 Dec 2021, 22:07, Reply)
I guess the law had to change in the UK
But it was constant fun each weekend to watch various club members turn up and use rare and insanely powerful weaponry.
(, Mon 13 Dec 2021, 14:54, Reply)
Yet another reason to not live in Kentucky.
(, Sat 11 Dec 2021, 18:52, Reply)
Mayfield Kentucky destroyed by overnight tornados.
(, Sat 11 Dec 2021, 18:46, Reply)
Just moving around, destroying stuff, for weeks or months at a time, as the climate warms.
(, Sun 12 Dec 2021, 0:55, Reply)
never seen one myself, and probably don't want to
(, Sat 11 Dec 2021, 22:50, Reply)
Thought it was satire at first. Apparently not. Jesus Christ.
(, Sat 11 Dec 2021, 17:47, Reply)
The internet is bad for humanity, and we should burn it to the ground.
(, Sat 11 Dec 2021, 19:36, Reply)
www.reddit.com/r/neckbeard/comments/r9ts1h/_/
Raises a few questions in my mind.
(, Sat 11 Dec 2021, 20:25, Reply)
Everyone back off Justin Trudeau and... er... etc
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I loved that so much.
Interesting instrument - check
Genuine and interesting host - check
Lovely and eccentric musician - check
Fascinating history lesson - check
(, Sat 11 Dec 2021, 19:56, Reply)
I think I'll be binge watching his channel tomorrow.
(, Sat 11 Dec 2021, 23:55, Reply)
clicky
Used to play the theme for Picture Box - clicky - for people of a certain age
(, Sat 11 Dec 2021, 23:45, Reply)
Sounds like Max Rebo.
(, Sun 12 Dec 2021, 14:40, Reply)
from the sequel to Rocky Horror?
Nice tune.
EDIT: That's a very nice dress...
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