>> ^charliem:

Forcing the government to make political decisions one way or the other based upon the belief of your church is morally and ethically wrong.
The govt. should not be afraid of the church, that shit was supposed to have died out during the renaissance....and its being bought back now, why?


It is back now because religious people have huge gaps in their education and critical thinking skills. The Dark Ages are the golden years for them. It would actually be AMAZING to stick a few of these idiots back in time for a couple months/years and see how much they actually love the progress, freedom, and acceptance that liberals have brought to the world.

Forcing the government to make political decisions one way or the other based upon the belief of your church is morally and ethically wrong.

The govt. should not be afraid of the church, that shit was supposed to have died out during the renaissance....and its being bought back now, why?

Yes, Animatrix is essential Matrix viewing. The Second Renaissance pt 1&2 is what Matrix Reloaded should have been.

I saw Dreamcatcher in theatres back in 2003 because they showed the premiere of Final Flight of the Osiris (Animatrix segment 3) as an accompanying short. Was totally worth it, even if I had to sit through Dreamcatcher afterwards. If you haven't seen Dreamcatcher, there is a large focus on aliens that come out your asshole and you know you have an alien in your ass because you can't stop farting powerfully. Not joking, there are full scenes which are meant to be serious in which actors are grimacing in medium close-up while loud farting noises are laid on top.

I wish they would turn The Second Renaissance Part 1 and 2 into a prequel for the Matrix.

edit: Also, I really like the soundtrack used in this animation, and yeah, the kid story is pretty interesting. As far as I remember he was the only person to have spontaneously rejected The Matrix and managed to disconnect himself. Not even Neo could do that.

If you think that was interesting for a back story, look up the Final Flight of the Osiris.

The Animatrix is kind of a necessity for those who followed the Matrix series. Even if those who do not like the 2nd or 3rd, it's still a bit of a necessity as it adds more depth to the overall Matrix universe and the stories that make up the Matrix world, both in and outside of it. If you think this was interesting stuff, look at The Second Renaissance Part 1 & 2, as it tells the story of how it all began. It's dark for a story. But a good companion story nonetheless.

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>> ^Jinx:

I'm just really bored at the stagnate FPS genre atm. Hasn't been a good recent multiplayer FPS game recently apart from TF2, and that was a while back. Even then the focus is clearly on public play and the competitive community is small and dying out pretty quickly. Its sad that in this e-sports renaissance created by SC2 there is no FPS game to really step up and enter the limelight. The Arena style of Quake needs to make a comeback. Its so watchable as a spectator sport, and the skill the best players display is just astounding. Even watching these speedruns etc makes my jaw drop.
Instead we get boring Modern Yawnfair 12 - For Xbox360 and PS3! And yah, I'm a PC elitist. I watched some Halo3/Reach @ MLG and while it wasn't terrible, it was lightyears behind Quake. CS:GO is on the horizon, and I hope steam support that as much as they are pouring money into DotA2, but still, I prefer an FPS where you don't die in one pixelshot or from wallbanging spam.
/rant
Oh, and a new tribes is coming, but I was super turned off by their free2play model. If its anything like LoL I am not interested. I'd rather pay upfront and know I am on a equal footing than everybody else rather than sink limitless cash into making sure I can remain competitive.


I realize I'm necroing a 2 week old video thread, but, there are some things that nobody bothered to say.

Jinx: Many of these F2P games are not Pay2Win. You simply pay for variety/speed of unlocks. Nothing you can pay for with cash can make you do more damage, move faster, etc. The only things in LoL that absolutely require actual cash are character skins and extra rune pages. Everything else can be unlocked with the same points even the richest person has to earn by playing matches. Can you spend $1-200 and unlock every character? Yes. Do you have to...is it worth it? No. Just play with the free rotated characters each week. Personally, I'm sick of paying up front for shitty games or games I don't play that often.


@EvilDeathBee The difference is, many of the companies that used to produce the best stuff now produce mass market crap and many of the great companies were bought out and/or ruined by EA/Activision. Westwood Studios...gone. Lucasarts is plagued by the same mass market bullshit problems as the newer movie trilogy. id hasn't made a good shooter since before Doom 3, and Rage is the latest crap they've spewed out. You can find videos of Carmack saying they're being held back by console graphics/memory considerations. Luckily we have Blizzard and Valve still, though Blizzard is now Activision Blizzard, and is making console Diablo 3 and has added friggin Facebook to Battle net. GG. Valve seems to want to make hats, ignore HL2:Ep3 while splitting the already-split MOBA community by releasing DOTA2, which nobody really asked for given that HoN and LoL are rather popular. But, at least Valve and Blizz put out quality PC games. BF3 now has the useless Origin, which is nothing but a business move and provides zero benefit to gamers.

Games used to be art. Now they're all about money.

@Hawkinson "A few thousand"? Doom 2 sold like 2 million back before PC gaming was at all popular. Quake 2 sold 1-1.5 million also. I couldn't find Q1 numbers but I'd guess they're similar. You're also forgetting that Doom 2 was distributed as shareware, and I've seen estimates that 15 million played it. Give google a try next time you want to pull statistics out of your ass

I'm just really bored at the stagnate FPS genre atm. Hasn't been a good recent multiplayer FPS game recently apart from TF2, and that was a while back. Even then the focus is clearly on public play and the competitive community is small and dying out pretty quickly. Its sad that in this e-sports renaissance created by SC2 there is no FPS game to really step up and enter the limelight. The Arena style of Quake needs to make a comeback. Its so watchable as a spectator sport, and the skill the best players display is just astounding. Even watching these speedruns etc makes my jaw drop.

Instead we get boring Modern Yawnfair 12 - For Xbox360 and PS3! And yah, I'm a PC elitist. I watched some Halo3/Reach @ MLG and while it wasn't terrible, it was lightyears behind Quake. CS:GO is on the horizon, and I hope steam support that as much as they are pouring money into DotA2, but still, I prefer an FPS where you don't die in one pixelshot or from wallbanging spam.

/rant

Oh, and a new tribes is coming, but I was super turned off by their free2play model. If its anything like LoL I am not interested. I'd rather pay upfront and know I am on a equal footing than everybody else rather than sink limitless cash into making sure I can remain competitive.

You are right. I am putting forward that hunger is what "inspired" great artists of the renaissance era etc. It's easy to think of these artists as experimental layabouts the likes of which artist today are portrayed but given that most of the great artists of religious works lived in poverty and were commissioned to paint specific genres of work by the aristocracy wishing to espouse their holiness etc it is false to say that god inspired the artists per se. God may have inspired rich people to spend their money showing how holy they were or wanted to be portrayed to be.

>> ^artician:

>> ^Kofi:
I'm pretty sure money inspired the greatest art, music and architecture.

I'm certain that whatever an individual personally worships, is what they themselves are convinced inspire "the greatest art".
This isn't a slight against Kofi: I read your comment first before I had watched far enough to see the moment from the clip that inspired it, but thought of this aspect when hearing the gentleman from the church preach his perspective on it. The guy clearly spends so much time with his face in the bible, that he sees it everywhere when he finally looks up. Today our culture is clearly told to worship money, so it's easy to see its influence in everything (even if it's not there).
Just an opinion (inspired by money!!!!!)

Same group and song from this sift: http://videosift.com/video/Hot-Renaissance-Festival-Violinist

>> ^budzos:

>> ^ant:
>> ^budzos:
Carmack genuinely one of my heroes. "Masters of DOOM" is a terrific book if you're interested in the 3D renaissance of 90s PC gaming.

DOOM ruled. See my mods: http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/files/doom2/j2doom/j2doom.html

Awesome. That's pretty hardcore.


If you're interested to vote or whatever: http://videosift.com/video/Ants-Da-Kills-LevelMap-2-recording-from-Da-Kills-DOOM2-mod and http://videosift.com/video/Ants-death-match-recording-from-Jungle-DOOM-2-PWADmod ...

>> ^ant:

>> ^budzos:
Carmack genuinely one of my heroes. "Masters of DOOM" is a terrific book if you're interested in the 3D renaissance of 90s PC gaming.

DOOM ruled. See my mods: http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/files/doom2/j2doom/j2doom.html


Awesome. That's pretty hardcore.

>> ^budzos:

Carmack genuinely one of my heroes. "Masters of DOOM" is a terrific book if you're interested in the 3D renaissance of 90s PC gaming.


DOOM ruled. See my mods: http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/files/doom2/j2doom/j2doom.html

Carmack genuinely one of my heroes. "Masters of DOOM" is a terrific book if you're interested in the 3D renaissance of 90s PC gaming.

It's Wolverine Renaissance style!