It goes deeper than that though. The ‘superman’ body proportions are also part of the armor design, not ‘regular ol’ human’ body proportions. When you ‘scale’ the armor down to fit a regular person, it’s doesn’t quite have the same feel or appearance. At least not without careful framing by the camera (ie, never fully…

Yeah, ie selfishness, ie basic human nature. It wouldn’t have matter how it was ‘constructed.’ The end result is always the same. If nature doesn’t destroy a civilization, we do it to ourselves. The exact same way. Every. Single. Time.

Dowdy *KNOWINGLY* assisted and protected one or more criminals from investigation and prosecution. He is an accomplice after the fact, an accessory to two murders. And unlike the black man who was sent to prison under the same pretenses of being an accomplice for simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time, Dowdy…

Yup. It does seem like the choice is between giving the GOP free use of dynamite to blow up the government, or continue to let them use jackhammers and wrecking balls to tear it all down.

Indeed. But there’s no way to fix this. Even if she’s successful in her attempts to punish a rabid racist piece of trash, it’ll be a pyrrhic victory. The GOP is only a hair’s breadth away from weaponizing it against the Democrats, and are only too eager to do so. At which point they won’t have to ‘seize’ the…

Once again proving it’s true:

The Schizophrenic, Psychotic States of America

While certainly the most obvious point of contention, some people’s facial structures do lend themselves to an ‘unnatural’ stillness. Have you ever watched Peter Cushing speak? The *real* Peter Cushing, closely, from the original film? He speaks, but parts of his mouth and cheeks don’t move.

There’s a word specifically for these people: misogynists. Sometimes they call themselves incels, but there’s nothing involuntary about their celibacy. Choosing to be toxic garbage is most definitely voluntary.

Alabama is a state where accomplices are seen just as complicit as the person doing the murdering.

And the majority shareholders, who are monsters just like Kotick, pause to consider how many fucks they give (spoiler: none) and decide to keep Kotick right where he is, given his ‘strong track record’ of squeezing blood from employees and customers stones.

Definitely. The shit going on with Georgia’s elections are appalling not simply in their brazenness but how insidiously packed they are to ensure a very specific outcome, over and over. And as with damn near everything wrong with the US (and especially in states with ‘red’ leadership) it’s consistently because of…

Meanwhile, Kemp and the GOP are busy making sure that this will only amount to a pyrrhic victory at most, by making sure that Atlanta’s votes won’t count or be counted. Because it’s only ‘democracy’ if the GOP wins. Yes, the GOP seriously believes that only their way qualifies as ‘democracy.’ That’s just how deranged…

While I grant that the sheer volume of ‘social media’ ‘contributions’ is too great for a more hands-on approach to moderating to be cost-effective, I also see no way for any kind of AI-moderated attempt to be effective without being overreaching, heavy-handed, and ultimately counter-productive.

Oh, I’m aware of his history at Activision. But he didn’t just jump into that position from no where. He has a history of being promoted specifically because of his sociopathy. He bought Activision by way of the money he made as a result of being hired and promoted when he should have been passed over -- hired and…

This is true. Blend shapes are essentially an advanced application of vertex animations (like those used in the original Quake), where literally every single vertex is individually animated, which makes them much more computationally expensive than bone-based character/face rigs that almost immediately replaced vertex…

The real trick is making the performance captures portable. It’s far, far simpler (which isn’t to say it’s simple) to apply a performance capture to a 3d model that is designed to be an exact duplicate of the physical reference. You can be sure that all the subtle subsurface motions of bone and muscle structures…

Activision Blizzard’s CEO should have resigned a long time ago

The continued existence of people like Tucker Carlson is proof that there is no karma, no justice, no civilized society, no God, and no hell in which they all belong.

And they’re all known Proud Boy members — ie the Racist-Pride Group. Rittenhouse is as racist as they come, in the proud of tradition of KKK lynchings, church burnings, and so forth.