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>> ^Fantomas:

Oh yeah baby! Work that Stamen!


Hilarious!

*timeshift indeed!

Thanks yet again Boise

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Definitely a *quality video.

Cheers dude

In reply to this comment by Lawdeedaw:
Is it sad that I wanted to crush the bird between my fingers? (Can't you tell my mood is foul? Been a long day at work.)

Nice to have a calming vid. : *promote

Yeeees, that would kind of be the point of the joke...

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Holy crap cakes!! That would have freaked me the F#%K OUT! I would have paddled like a little loon going "please don't eat me, please don't eat me", and the fact that I know full well they only eat plankton would have been SOD ALL HELP because it's freaking HUGE AND UNDER WATER AND OBVIOUSLY OUT TO GET ME!!!



get some education, no reason for it to harm you or even that it would

In reply to this comment by Lithic:
Holy crap cakes!! That would have freaked me the F#%K OUT! I would have paddled like a little loon going "please don't eat me, please don't eat me", and the fact that I know full well they only eat plankton would have been SOD ALL HELP because it's freaking HUGE AND UNDER WATER AND OBVIOUSLY OUT TO GET ME!!!



get some education, no reason for it to harm you or even that it would

>> ^nock:

Aren't these things protected by the Marine Mammal and Endangered Species Acts? Pretty sure you aren't supposed to get within a certain radius. I'm also pretty sure he's within that radius.


I don't know the specific law in the US, but in other countries the rule has been that you are not allowed approach the animal, but once it approaches you, you're fine.

Your video, Kayaker gets up close with a blue whale., has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

I remember that the day was the most beautiful fall day of the year. I went for a walk and remembered thinking how absolutely gorgeous it was. The sky was bright blue, not a cloud in the sky, and I was feeling fantastic! (NetRunner was at work and I was not working at that time.)

I do not remember exactly where I heard about the first plane. It might have been on Everquest chat, since I know I was playing it a lot back then. But it was somewhere online, so I went to turn on the small TV in the computer room.

The rest of the day I was just watching the TV, horrified, having phone calls back and forth to NetRunner who was still at work. My mom from Finland called, around the time the news said there was smoke coming from The Pentagon.

The rest of the day was just a blur.. I know I was crying and just couldn't believe that the towers actually fell. Ever since I was a kid I always wanted to visit NY and see the WTC. I had posters of them on my bedroom wall. I know I couldn't go on top, because I am more than terrified of heights, but I always wanted to see them up close. I had seen them from a distance while flying off NY. I though I'd visit NY with Net at some point.

Thank God Net was able to come home soon afterwards. I was seriously becomimg hysterical while watching all this alone..

I lived in NYC for four years and the only celebrity I ever saw up close and in person was Peter Dinklage. That's my lame-claim-to-fame.

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.

@chilaxe

1. I'm not going to see it up close as I'm Canadian and live in another continent now anyway.

2. Cool. Agree to not agree for the time being. It's been pleasant locking horns with you.

Looks nice, but good graphics are commonplace today (I'll assume the every-few-second stutter is a result of the video, not the game itself). More importantly: the elder scrolls are unfortunately plagued by shortcuts in design (no doubt a result of trying to create such large worlds) which they just cannot seem to shake. Leveled lists and tile-constructed dungeons are not fun. The latter are insultingly tedious after the 4th one, and if you don't know what the former are, you haven't played much in the ES series. The same worthless loot over and over again is not fun. Always being at or near the same level as your enemy is not fun. Being able to exploit the system to become so powerful (in everything) that you can beat the end boss before you reach level twelve, is not fun. These things do not make for good gameplay. I don't know how much Skyrim makes use of these old poor designs, but Morrowind and Oblivion were completely based on them, and it ruined what could have been gaming excellence. The same experience again and again and again and again and again is not fun. Here's hoping Bethesda have learned by now, or will learn, someday.

Something else: I'm not sure why they're discussing Radiant AI as if it's new; it's mocked all over youtube with Oblivion.

Anyway, seeing mountains in the distance and plants up close is yesterday's news (I wonder if the shadows are real or faked; the original video demos for Oblivion had realtime light and shadow, but they were removed for performance reasons in the final release). Ditch the LL and tile construction and add a level of environmental diversity and interactivity like that of Thief (which is over a decade old), and I might be convinced to try another ES game.

What a wonderful experience that must be - to see such beautiful animals up close. I admire the philosophy of being humbled by the presence of such amazing creatures.

Meanwhile my students brag about running over animals in their trucks, backing up and running over them again. *sigh*