I don’t know. It seems like the “simple solution” being espoused is actually the “complicated solution that we’ve always been using.” Distorting and faking a models behavior to get it to look right seems very complicated. Building a working model that requires no wonky animations in any view seems incredibly elegant.

This is the dumbest article I’ve ever read on Jalopnik. Not on the rest of Gawker media, though, so that’s something.

A perfect blend of my most beloved Trek and my most hated Trek.

I’ll never trust any motherfucker that eats his meals while staring into your soul.

I really need to see a car dipped to this quality in the wild. All of the dips in my life are still of the “nasty flat black” variety.

Can I ask all of you FPS players: was it entirely obvious from watching his/her screen that they were aim-botting? To me it was just the usual hyper-kinetic FPS animations that I can never follow. :)

Please, Matt, write that story!

The very last sentence I read about Thrawn — the moment I put down the book and never picked up another one featuring him — was about him devising military strategies based upon his understanding of a culture’s art. It struck me as so outrageously dumb that I couldn’t continue.