His story reminds me of my racing years....no team, no budget, only a deep desire to go fast. While I didn't come all the way across the Pacific, I did end up driving farther than that in a few years, easy when races are 4-500 miles away in the desert somewhere, then another 100-300 miles tearing through it before driving home. I was the only lone wolf in VORRA (Valley Off Road Racing Association) for a few years. Good times.
*promote *history

There's not much to it I'm afraid.

Plenty of successful treatments are available. It's simply a matter of funding.

From my experiences in Australia, both close and friends who work in mental health. They're overworked, the pay sucks, there's no budget to hire more staff and the rooms are crowded.

There has been multiple instances when a patient who needs to be admitted, will be left in a bed in emergency and ferried about as needed, while a bed in the mental health ward frees up.

This is the sort of funding mental health workers are dealing with.

If your patient is already at home and their low risk, you'll be told to just try to keep them at home and manageable for as long as possible. You're on waiting list, so just hope nothing happens in the mean time during their relapse.

What people fail to understand, is if all the workers are so stressed out to the point of trying to shuffle just getting some one a place to sleep. How in the hell do they have time to do any sort of actual therapy?

They get criticised for just pushing drugs and pumping people out after 2-3wks and yet no one appreciates that they must. Because they just got a new patient that is severely ill and a person with mild schizophrenia is going to be sent along on their merry way, regardless if they needed another month or two to fully stabilise. They're doing ok and they can just revolve back around when the meds wear off, perhaps they'll have another room then.

It's sad but it's reality and it's not their fault. You can point fingers and demand better this and that and this. Or you can realise just the mere fact that these people have these terribly shitty jobs means they care a whole lot more fucks than you or I ever have or will.

They need more money, simple.

the video effect is bad chromatic aberration which is an artifact of a bad lens. it's standard for movies and TV shows with no budget. blood dragon was just drawing from the same influences (80s-early 90s action/fantasy movies/TV, foreign action fantasy movies, taiwanese movies, hong kong movies, telugu movies, possibly nigerian movies) and the underground popularity of synthwave, chillwave, even italodisco, and chiptune. kung fury could have pull some influence from blood dragon but both are based on 30 year old cliches so that influence is a bit meaningless since the source material is so redily available.

(His name is James), James Cameron
The bravest pioneer
No budget too steep, no sea too deep
Who's that?
It's him, James Cameron
(James), James Cameron explorer of the sea
With a dying thirst to be the first
Could it be? Yeah that's him!
James Cameron

I'm sure a similar laundry list of accomplishments far and wide could be made about any president. America will be feeling the positive effects of the Cruise Vessel Security and Safety Act and proposal for a new refuge for wild mustangs for years to come.

Mind you, this the best Obama can do with 90% of the media unjournalists taking his side, never vetting him, never asking hard questions or questioning policy...

Where it counts, this President doesn't cut it. And why is there still no budget? It can't be because of the Republican minority in Congress.

Hey, I could be wrong, and the mob will decide in November that government dependency and not working are now more rewarding than the opposite.


As for why the current problems persist:

"The endless proliferation of anti-business interventions by government, and the sight of more of the same coming over the horizon from Barack Obama's appointees in the federal bureaucracies, creates the one thing that has long stifled economic activity in countries around the world -- uncertainty about what the rules of the game are, and the unpredictability of how specifically those rules will continue to change in a hostile political environment." --T. Sowell









>> ^KnivesOut:

Yeah, what has Obama done anyway aside from put up with all this ridiculous nonsense?>> ^quantumushroom:
Don't y'all wish you could simply point to Obama's successful record instead of resorting to this?
Higher taxes and demonizing the rich (who pay the lion's share of income taxes while the bottom 50% pay nothing) haven't worked.
Massive government spending hasn't worked.
Weak, indecisive leadership in dealing with our enemies (and allies!) hasn't worked.
The only reason there aren't riots over Obamacare is the new taxes are on a delayed fuse.
Obes doesn't deserve a second term, and didn't deserve a first term (neither did McLame, but the lesser of two evils...)

>> ^jmd:

ehh, I'm gonna nit pick.
#1 I HATE the fake camera shake. We all know this shit is done on dollys and steady cam out the ass, then to make it look like..frankly I have no idea why they inject camera shake, I don't want to see how Michael j. Fox see's the movie. .
#2 this bad guy seems to make everyone his target.. even little kids.. so why is he still alive? He is CLEARLY dumber then a stump and is lowest on the totem pole, some other punk would have put a bullet in him long ago.
#3 Our hero guy strolls in and really does not care...yet has the means to kill every single one of them in less then 10 seconds and some how eventually finds the will too. God damn this is 5th grade writing.
#4 oh my god.. the special effects... is this supposed to be gritty real life.. or mortal freaking kombat? It looks like that 5th grader also had a say in where blood was placed... cause he said EVERYWHERE!


Well first of all this is an amateur fan film with no budget. Second of all, can't you just enjoy a good, over-the-top short film without dissecting it like a art-house film critic with a shitty blog?

>> ^quantumushroom:

The socialists refused to pass a budget for 800-plus days.
Odumbo and Durbin falsely claimed it takes '60 votes' to pass a budget and the Republicans 'somehow' blocked this, and that's why there was no budget.
Simple truth: it takes 51 votes. The leftists have had senators a-plenty to pass it.


Of all the dumbassed things I've seen you say--this has got to be the dumbestassest thing.

Haven't you noticed that the R's block everything that the President tries to do? The R's "somehow" cause everything to require 60 votes. That's because the obstructionist R's put up road blocks so that the President fails to get anything thru--which means that the country is going down the tubes (but they don't care).

[Note: because of people like you calling everything, and anything, "socialism" the word has lost it's negative connotations. Most Americans now see that its just a buzz word and embrace many "socialist" ideals. Thanks! Keep up the good work!]

The socialists refused to pass a budget for 800-plus days.

Odumbo and Durbin falsely claimed it takes '60 votes' to pass a budget and the Republicans 'somehow' blocked this, and that's why there was no budget.

Simple truth: it takes 51 votes. The leftists have had senators a-plenty to pass it.

>> ^ant:

>> ^xxovercastxx:
Dammit, ant. How did you miss the F-bomb?
nsfw

When?


I think the first one is at 8:30 but there is swearing throughout the video.

@siftbot: AHEM! *nsfw!

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Being Poor and Having No Budget is Good For Making Games, Indie, development, ASM' to 'assembly 2011, budget, limitations, innovation, Indie, game development, ASM' - edited by xxovercastxx

>> ^xxovercastxx:

Dammit, ant. How did you miss the F-bomb?
nsfw


When?

I heartily endorse the Buffett plan, not the Kuchinich plan.

Here's another approach...

1. An immediate freeze on all goverment spending at current levels.
2. A TWO year (not TEN) roll-back of federal spending to 2008 budget levels.
3. Immediate passage of a balanced budget ammendment that requires spending beyond the 2008 budget levels to be matched by IMMEDIATE (not 10 year) cuts from other federal spending.
4. All future federal budgets require a 2/3 majority in the house, a 2/3 majority in the Senate, a Presidential signature, AND ratification by 2/3 of all states in a voter referendum. If no budget passes, spending stays at 2008 levels.
5. Obamacare repealed.

I'm not saying that this vid has the kind of graphics that would entice me to pay full price at the box office, nor am I throwing down high-fives for sup-par work or uncool people. I'm sure 110 days of rendering time could have helped to give it the kind of polish that could be up to today's standards, and yours.

I enjoyed this piece because I appreciated the story told by this animation. Better graphics wouldn't hurt, but it was good enough to carry that story.

There are countless examples off great storytelling and enjoyable animations that don't rely on billion polygon counts or dynamic lighting. Whether that's Don Hertzfeldt or Dottie Goes to School or Groundbreaking Music Videos.

Nevertheless, you are absolutely entitled to your opinion, and welcome to focus on what you like in videos and animations. I just wanted to share where I was coming from too.

Also, good for you for getting your name out there and getting work in your field. I know a lot of creative-types and I know it ain't the easiest line of work to get into.

peace
~N
>> ^kir_mokum:

i'm a jr. comp artist. it's a day job, not a passion, so i've had no need or interest in doing a pro bono project of any kind. the last film i did comp work on was the new karate kid (i did some roto for clash of the titans, but that doesn't really count). i'm currently working on eureka, which is a silly show, but lots of fun to work on.
comping all CG shots is usually easier as you (generally) don't have to roto, pull green screens, camera tracking, regraining, etc.
this is a whole other league, but it was done by one person and effectively no budget:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHD8Xf5Rnvo

i'm a jr. comp artist. it's a day job, not a passion, so i've had no need or interest in doing a pro bono project of any kind. the last film i did comp work on was the new karate kid (i did some roto for clash of the titans, but that doesn't really count). i'm currently working on eureka, which is a silly show, but lots of fun to work on.

comping all CG shots is usually easier as you (generally) don't have to roto, pull green screens, camera tracking, regraining, etc.

this is a whole other league, but it was done by one person and effectively no budget:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHD8Xf5Rnvo

Very well said, notarobot.
"Your expectations are unfair. This is a low/no budget film with almost everything done by two people, not a billion dollar James Cameron film."