This makes me want to go back and play HL2 Episodes 1 & 2. I know I bought them, but don't remember ever finishing them. HL2 was so technically impressive. Portal 2 was also great, especially the co-op multiplayer. Alyx is a good VR title- it's close to a "killer app" for VR, but not quite there. 1 of the few VR titles compelling enough to keep headset on for more than 1 hour.

Not half-life related, but "old but cool" PC tech from that era: I had a DVD/MPEG2 decoder card that did VGA passthrough, and would replace black pixels with the movie content - so I could watch the Matrix in the background of playing Quake or other FPS (this was a dual PIII-450Mhz). I later installed an ATSC tuner card - one of the first channels that broadcast in HD was Fox, and one of my favorite shows, 24, started to broadcast in HD - and the early days all the makeup artists took advantage of low-res, so as soon as the show went to HD, you could see how fake all the blood, makeup, and other effects were. Hollywood ramped up quickly once the first HDTVs started shipping.
That computer also ran BeOS quite well.

Total win for the Hayes family and artists in general. For 4 years after receiving a cease and desist from the rights owner, Hayes’ son, Trump continued to use the music constantly without payment. He is now under court order to stop using Hayes music immediately, and expect many other artists to sue as well since legal notices are routinely ignored.
In this one case there are millions in damages, and there are dozens and dozens of artists in the same boat who told him to stop misusing their copywritten art and he rudely refused.
This may cost him hundreds of millions he doesn’t have and tie him up in court for years.

Oh no! The Treasonies are cancelled because
1) safety and security concerns (oh the delicious irony)
2) the backlash for a presidential candidate holding a fundraiser for people CONVICTED of sedition and attacking the government…a backlash that, in their insanity, came as a surprise
And
3) a scheduling conflict because the felon has another court case to address in chambers with the judge and Jack Smith tomorrow about the new superseding indictments. 😂

Why all the hate (not referencing Ozzy Man, the "Interwebz")? Raygun knows she's not gonna win, and Breaking isn't getting another chance as an Olympics event anytime soon, if ever, so might as well have fun. It's not hard to understand.

I found her amusing when I was watching it live, she wasn't mocking anyone or breaking imo, but it did took me a few seconds to "get" the entertaining routine. The judging panel's all-zeroes was harsh but at least I understand it's based on technical merits, not artistic ones. Still... not even .0001 pt? Seems like a bit out of anger/shock, but whatever...

Don't take things too seriously internetz, have some sportsmanship & solidarity for those that know they're there for the "participation trophies" and not for the way-too-distance-for-them medals. All the trolling from the couch potatoes truly reflect poorly on humanity.

This is called Foley kids. It’s how sound work was done before everything was digitized into files. Live radio shows and silent movies made use of these artists starting around 1914, the first (known) being Jack Foley who added sound effects to the first “talkie” (the first non silent movie) because microphones of the day couldn’t record ambient sounds and dialog, hence the name.

This artist got a signature gimmick, sure, and respects for that, but "Incredible Talent" it is not.

More like a short hop from a bus stop to the station's entrance...but OK.

If I'm the artist, I wonder how many cutouts I have to make to be as efficient as possible, 6-10 frames? Seems like a lot of boards to waste (even if they're recycled).

Yeah this crow can talk like I can sing like [insert your fav artist] with auto-tune.

Window's closed. Crow's volume picked up just fine.

What a diverse crowd of middle age white fat Christian people he attracts.
I bet they think taxes should pay for their church events, not feeding the poor.
Look close, I see nothing else in that crowd but dumb overweight drunken white people. This is what you want America to be, it makes you so happy seeing all those beaming angry white faces together without any disgusting minorities dirtying it up, doesn’t it?

No surprise a racist drunk singing about how (too far left) Jebus is good and government/taxes are bad picked up by the extreme right at the top (who themselves are all rich men north of Richmond) and fed to you as an anthem gets lots of views. It doesn’t make it good music or a decent message, it’s just more MAGA whining that everything doesn’t go your way….waaah! A good whine attracts MAGA like moths to a flame by the millions.

BTW- BTS got 108 MILLION views in 24 hours since you think 27m views in 11 days is outstanding….for a right wing “artist” it is, for normal pop singers, it’s a fail.

WAAAAAH! 😂

Awesome! I wanna see.

Just like this, or the single piece version? This, as far as I can tell, is just a realistic 3d render of something he hasn’t made (yet). I like the double helix effect.

That must have cost them quite a pretty penny. The artist has the shape copywritten and trademarked I believe, both the physical and digital versions, and he sells the regular 30cm tall tabletop version for $1900.00!

I hope your neighbor didn’t copy his design without paying him a royalty, that could get really expensive.

Yeah. I believe the dog walked around it to respect the artists' work.

VFX Artist Proves Pluto IS a Planet

No, he doesn't.

You don't even get a spoiler warning for that.

This is why the "monkey selfie" photo controversy of a couple of years ago (damnit, it's 10 years!) baffles me... it's not always the artist, it's often the editor that spots the art. I can take 60 shots per second of the waves on the coast of a lake, but that doesn't mean I should own the copyright on the one that happened to look great at 01:05:51.304 on 26/11/22.

Conversely the inverse may also be true.

Art is art. Don't tie me down, baby.

All alone or in twos
The ones who really love you
Walk up and down outside the wall
Some hand in hand
And some gather together in bands
The bleeding hearts and the artists
Make their stand
And when they've given you their all
Some stagger and fall after all it's not easy
Banging your heart against some mad buggers wall -Pink Floyd

I dig chill versions of this song.

The Hellsongs version is pretty good too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZoo8PSC4AM

Don't forget to listen to the original so you can appreciate how much artistic creativity goes into re composing this song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQUXuQ6Zd9w