“In no circumstance should it be considered a “normal life learning experience” for a child to approach and try to fight an armed individual.”

“My original statement was how children are often unaware of the realistic dangers (as this child was) and THAT is the problem. You replied that they can only learn through experience which is bullshit.”

Anyone know if they’ve reduced the cheating on the PC version?

Genji is a hard counter to Bastion, that bullet deflection negates all damage to get in close then use the swift strike to kill him

This actually has been done and gets done at times, not because of pandering or anything like that but because the role fits better. Its done in Hollywood, books, and games. Vanityfair has an article about in Hollywood.

“Yeah, this seems the important point. Why should we accept white male as the default assumption.”

I see someone isn’t / has never had a discussion with, a writer...

I think there is a line between professional modeling and acting and cosplaying. Do I think some of these cosplayers should move to being cosplay models or actors who attend these conventions and get paid to do gigs like this? Yes, but they are professional cosplaying models. Do I think cosplayers who do well in their…

The only thing I can guess at is just the sheer volume of people they’re trying to hit to make as much money as possible in as little time possible prevents that kind of thing. Such a huge disconnect between 2 markets within the same industry.

Totally agree with you. I can cite many situations where black people have been, and continue to be demonized by the media directly toward white people, and I hope that changes. Not recognizing the indoctrination of demonizing minorities who (dress and act a certain way) while trying to lay out your “truths” is awful.

The problem is that Chait’s arguments (note this is not attacking the premise) are full of logical fallacies which opens up for the reader to twist things around. Lots of masked man and anecdotal fallacies that can have holes punched in them by anyone with the right perspective at the time.

Good stuff the specular is definitely looking a bit better keep working the lighting and the global.

You have absolutely no idea how WoW has changed over the years on the back end. Remember the bnet account switch in WoW? Obviously not. That dependency alone on all the backend authentication, friends, party system etc is killer. You go through bnet for all of that now. You can’t just load up subversion and perforce…

How is this a controversy? Is controversial the new spin word of today? I know of very few vocal people who “don’t get the point” who are complaining but that’s about it, I dunno if dumb daft men disagreeing make a thing controversial.

Quite a few people actually. Including those who come over here to do commercials, just saying. Really it doesn’t matter to me, the story is for people here to relate to, and it’s easier for Japanese people to relate to other Japanese people in this scenario.

Japan has a version of Annie going out with all Japanese people in it /shrug

It shouldn’t affect performance too badly at all, when you start getting them clashing together in a small space it becomes more of a problem, as in you wouldn’t want to put 50 in a tight room, because its basically rendering all that geometry 50 times and trying to sort where to put it.

Yeah you’ll need a bit more than spec maps and normal maps. especially for the ceiling, I would gen a displacement map. Also is the specular map on the floor inverted? Toss a few sphere reflection entities around, so that the floors and reflective materials pic it up and see what comes from that. It really makes a…

A lot of this is using really simple geometry, which is great. The money here is the time they’ve spent on the materials, actually making materials and using things like substance and bitmap2material.

All of that is not good design. Allocating stat points to screw yourself is absolutely silly, it’s why several games haven’t done it since the late 90s unless they want to be “retro”. There are no queues to tell you where these things are, bad design, when you fail it’s not safe to fail, you lose everything and have…