And the fact that this demo wasn't rendered in real time... But it wouldn't be presented unless it works fast enough for those clips to be rendered in theory with a machine that's powerful enough. Procedural desctruction is nothing new but it complexes carefully optimized scenes in unpredictable ways very fast so kudos if they've solved it.

>> ^IronDwarf:
That's like my neighbor setting my house on fire because he's angry about my dog pooping on his lawn; not the best way to get one's point across.


I agree - not the best way to get one's point across. 911 was an unforgivable atrocity but what this guy is trying to say is that there's no discussion or awareness of what WE did to provoke it. If someone burns down our house that's awful but if we've been a serial arsonists for profit since Truman and the police don't care then maybe we don't hold the moral high ground anymore when someone finally says fuck it and burns our house down.

In the aftermath of 911 we've killed many many more civilians in Iraq than died in the twin towers and they didn't even have anything to do with it. That's a non-issue in this country and that's very fucked up. The pre-911 stuff is less straight forward but I don't think anybody with intellectual honesty could say we're not responsible for *many* times more deaths and desctruction of culture by our long standing habit of paying and supporting dictators to do our dirty work throughout the middle east and the rest of the world. 911 is just a tiny drop in the bucket in comparison. Terrible and unforgivable but still just a tiny drop in the bucket.

If we refuse to realize our part in this stuff, shit like this is going to keep happening. I don't want my kids to die in a dirty bomb attack because my neighbors refuse to have the tiniest bit of self awareness and responsibility.

I tried to add the tag classic since this got lots of webplay last year, and the youtube page has received 41173 views. I do think the rule against showing deaths, even indirectly should be allowed for the anniversary of 9/11.
If someone can find a tribute video that doesn't show the desctruction of the towers - I'd like to see it. And I'll probably pull this video in favor of another Enya video.

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Cutting edge irony in its most desctructive/constructive form. You could tell that the audience was almost unwilling to go there on the 9/11 comparison. Great stuff.