This looks like a low-tech version of Gary Chang's apartment in HK:
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/BUSINESS/08/04/hongkong.20room.flat

(Anyone knows how to embed CNN videos?)

More Jersey Floor Tiny Fey please! I don't care if she's pregnant.

I listened to Jimmy Fallon's interview on the Nerdist podcast, and he said they just shot this on a vacant floor @ the 30 Rock building. I love how low-tech it is. They're just running around in some offices with a camera. That was really funny. Especially "B-Hole".

Looks pretty cool. I like that they've gone with the more low-tech aliens, like District 9, instead of vastly superior like in Independence Day, War of the Worlds or Skyline. Gives us a fighting chance, and really makes it more of a war movie instead of a "holy shit, get out of here" movie.

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>> ^legacy0100:

is... is that a sword???


Yes... Yes it is.

Just as surprised as you are. This is a really innovative and low-tech(as opposed to our constant connection to the internet) way of getting people information. It's a fantastic idea and I hope it blossoms into something huge.

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glad u liked the vid~! I really wonder why didn't get more votes

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*quality

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I see nothing here that couldn't be done in realtime using Cryengine. How many FPS was this rendered in, 1-2? Super high tech when low tech would do it better

>> ^saber2x:
They have found a better low tech solution, Human hair, it typically soak up around four to six times its weight in oil. http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jlLeX2Yu-e3M9dqXSTXCdjLB9OxA


"Better" solution? You have any idea how many tons of hair they will need? Also, if all 6 billion people donated their hair, that would cover only like 43 square miles. The slick is currently 4000+ sq miles and growing.

A lot of people don't understand just how massive the planet is, and just how small we are. Everyone on the planet alive today could stand, 10+ feet from each other, and never leave the state of Rhode Island.

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>> ^Mcboinkens:

"This looks like a must-buy for any gamers who are iPhone users... the style, interface, music, everything just looks amazing... according to Kotaku it will be out later this year."
What? This game looks incredibly boring. By style I guess it is refering to the Atari 2600 style graphics. Didn't see an interface. The music sounded like some cheap 64bit garbage, and there was not much as far as actual gameplay goes.
Definately going to need to see more from this game before it is a "must-buy."


I agree and disagree. I thought the music was good. I also feel the graphics were original and I'm fine with it being low-tech. I appreciate games that don't feel the need to focus on graphics but instead overall game play/storyline etc. BUT the game does look boring. I assume the game has more to offer than wandering around with no apparent purpose. The teaser should have shown that.

Hilariously low tech!

>> ^cybrbeast:

They meet a special forces team and come under attack from an enemy sniper, presumably using a low tech sniper gun.


I don't think they were meant to be SAS, but private contractors. At one point I remember him shooting the prisoners as they were trying to escape and talked about a reward. I've read a lot of non-fiction about the SAS over the years, there's no way the SAS goes around collecting bounties. Though it's not really said in the film, I don't think that's what they're implying. So feel safe in that knowledge!

On the other hand, I did have problems with the film also, despite how well it portrayed the 'addiction' to war. Chris Hedges has described this phenomenon vividly, something that is never talked about.

In the film it is never even mentioned WHY the Iraqis attack American forces. That their entire army was disbanded when it was standing ready to assist, or de-Baathification which had thrown many out of work, for a couple of examples. So we're left to conclude, if we know nothing else about the history of the country, that they just simply hate Americans for no reason. It's not at least suggested that might be a more complicated answer.

I really did not like this movie. I just couldn't suspend my disbelief. I'm not an army guy but this movie was clearly ridiculous.

*spoilers*
First, them casually walking up to the bombs, they have those robots for a reason. But this is far from the worst.
They meet a special forces team and come under attack from an enemy sniper, presumably using a low tech sniper gun. The special ops fire back with a Barret 50 cal and miss. Then the special ops guy is killed by the enemy sniper. Now the guy from the EOD takes over the sniper rifle and sits in exactly the same place. He can't fire because there's blood on his bullets so he casually waits there (in the sight of the enemy sniper) till the bullets are cleaned. He misses a few shots and then finally gets the sniper. Then suddenly his skills increase tenfold because he hits a running Iraqi in one shot. EOD are not snipers!
Then there is the part in the city to a bomb site, and then run into a random city block looking for the bombers. And then they split up. WTF?
I'm sure there was more crap that I can't think of at the moment.

The movie tries to convey this gritty realism but then fails big time. I really can't understand all the praise it gets.