I love this. What a great, natural onscreen presence she has!

Such an awful game and not because it's a shameless and pointless use of an old beloved IP, but because it was as generic and boring as a shooter in this day and age gets. It looks real purdy (except the bloom), but I am SO goddamn sick of these games that continue to follow this awful plan of making it as boring and simple as possible. There's nothing to keep track of, nothing to think about. Just shoot and do whatever the onscreen prompts tell you to do. Fuck off

I'll tell you one thing.. there are a whole lot of instruments in that audio track that I can't spot a trace of onscreen.

My problem with Cenk is that he pretty obviously cut his teeth on talk radio. It's why I'm not too fond of Ed Shultz, either.

Everything Cenk says is just whatever his gut feeling is, and anything that contradicts his preconception is just never mentioned (when it's just him onscreen), or railroaded aside (when he's got other people around).

A lot of times I sympathize with what he's feeling. He's mad at Obama for not being a partisan progressive ideologue, he's disgusted with Republicans for being fascists, etc.

It's just that he's constantly going off half-cocked, and not really interested in reflection or discussion. At all.

I'm still watching his show on Current (or at least letting it play in the room I'm in), but it's rather quickly losing my interest. He's never covered some topic I hadn't heard about elsewhere (except for the non-political "isn't that weird" stuff Ana covers), nor does he present some fresh way of looking at an issue that I hadn't considered. He doesn't even seem to be able to condense down the liberal argument on the topic of the day in a clear, concise, resonant way, which is usually the main thing I look to get out of liberal cable TV.

Sometimes I wonder why we denigrate his acting abilities. He's clearly got *something* that works onscreen and he's certainly a great movie star. But in some of these films I just can't think who would be better than him.

friz, learn to quote, then work on your flaming. The numbers I threw around was indeed significant to show that despite so many modern touch screen users, the complaint about smudging is rather low and not really an issue that comes up.

And yes the era of the keyboard as we know it will come to an end. An onscreen keyboard may not have the nice tactile feedback, however it will generally become moot when the display and the controller become one and the touchscreen will work hand in hand with 3d object detection (ala kinect). The onscreen keyboard will consist of a small subset of buttons with specific task that can quickly appear and disappear on the display. Even data entry will replace the keyboard with voice recognition one day.

Also getting back to the game, the battlefield navigation system is not really something you could use a keyboard for. The whole purpose of it is to be able to visualize and manipulate the battle field up close.

Thank you for welcoming me into the new age of computing! I totally did not know that millions of devices with touch interfaces had been sold. That is amazing. As you are well aware, the popularity of something is direct irrefutable proof of it's greatness. Millions of people bought Milli Vanilli albums and Beanie Babies and Pet Rocks and all those things are great! I would definitely use the general public to try to prove my own points if only they agreed with me. Typing on a smeary screen, using up valuable visible display space to show a keyboard and getting no tactile feedback is surely the wave of the future! What could be better when gaming than looking at the back of your own hand? What is more immersive than using imprecise finger pointing to generally direct game elements? I can't think of anything really. Joysticks and keyboard/mouse combinations have just been holding us back. It's all so clear now.
P.S. Where can I get a some of that iPhone kool-aid you've been drinking? The game shown here looks to be in the RTS genre. The generally accepted measure for proficiency in RTS games is actions per minute. Top players in Starcraft perform several hundred per minute on keyboard/mouse. This kludgey junk you are so quick to praise because it looks like Minority Report or something from a hacking scene in a movie would never come close to that in APM. It's junk for casual gamers who are easily impressed. So I guess I should say "Enjoy!".
>> ^jmd:
Btw friz, welcome to 2011, with millions of touch phones and tablets all over the world being used. Todays glass can be coated in a way where thumb prints don't cause to much of an issue. May be a slight prismatic look when sweaty, but people have no problems enjoying gaming on them. The touch interface shown here is far more superior then a gamepad or mouse could do. Having one hand on a keyboard to help facilitate issuing command types with your next touch could easily be handled with an onscreen panel too.

At first I thought they were using empire at war as the engine, but it does indeed look 2d so it is totally custom. Unfortunately it is kinda sad too, there is no excuse for that display to be chugging like that for 2d images (yes, even at a super high resolution wall display like this, todays consumer CPUs would make hundreds of thousands of 2d objects a joke to throw around).

As for the interface, well to be fair, the people who created this demonstration are probably not game creators. The interface looks nothing more then a simplistic method of choosing what ship types to spawn for an unwinable demonstration battle. In a real game things would be more stream lined. Empire at war is a good example of that. Alot of options can be automated, much like what would happen in a real battle, would you be the fleet commander and not worrying about the deployment of tie fighters from destroyers.

>> ^frizlefry:

Fingerprints on my screen and inefficient slow controls with the possibility of repetitive stress injuries? Sign me up!


Btw friz, welcome to 2011, with millions of touch phones and tablets all over the world being used. Todays glass can be coated in a way where thumb prints don't cause to much of an issue. May be a slight prismatic look when sweaty, but people have no problems enjoying gaming on them. The touch interface shown here is far more superior then a gamepad or mouse could do. Having one hand on a keyboard to help facilitate issuing command types with your next touch could easily be handled with an onscreen panel too.

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>> ^Stormsinger:

I may even have to go to the theater to see this one. An alien invasion of the old West seems worthwhile, and a topless Thirteen makes it something of a no-brainer.
Although, to be honest, I couldn't even make a good guess as to Wilde's chestsize...I've never been able to take my eyes off of her face when she's onscreen. She has the most amazing cheekbones I've ever seen.


Are you kidding? She's TERRIFYING! When she opens her eyes wide she looks like she's going to devour your soul!

Also...newly single.

I may even have to go to the theater to see this one. An alien invasion of the old West seems worthwhile, and a topless Thirteen makes it something of a no-brainer.

Although, to be honest, I couldn't even make a good guess as to Wilde's chestsize...I've never been able to take my eyes off of her face when she's onscreen. She has the most amazing cheekbones I've ever seen.

looks like someone forgot to finish his plot points. I luuuve abstract animation, but even aeon flux offered up reasons to explain the onscreen action even if it was weird or perverse.

That was good. Took me a second viewing to get the punchline, that it's a gringo taking the food order. They should have left him onscreen longer or used someone a lot more nerdy looking. Either way it was very funny.

I could only watch about 3 minutes as it was ridiculously over-edited. They couldn't keep an image onscreen for more than a second, every 12 year old who just discovered Movie Maker edits this way.

Hmm this thread did not explode into a Matrix discussion as I like to see happen. I guess the time of those movies has long past. Hard to believe the first one is more than ten years old. The Matrix is now older now than Batman 1989 was when The Matrix came out. That blows my mind. Funny, in my opinion, you still don't see effects looking better than they did in Reloaded and Revolutions. The volume and density of the effects in the Zion battle are unbelievable.

I think it's almost criminal the way the first movie could have taken a place alongside Star Wars as the globe's real shared modern mythology of choice. A piece of pop culture so accessible yet profound at the same time, that was successfully designed to give satisfying takes on many different levels. A fucking movie that changed the way people looked at the world around them by having actual ideas behind the fury onscreen. And then they make the sequels and it's like mitichlorians plus Jar Jar Binks to the nth power. Still some awesome shit in the sequels between pure action and the ideas that were so overpackaged. I mean damn were they hard to love with all the nonsense and goofiness (Morpheus' speech, lol).