that's what i was going to say -- the ideal tools from an efficiency standpoint are probably using some procedural generation layered on top of designed content. 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/byrdhouse/sets/72157606292482848/ 

http://www.stevebulman.f9.co.uk/cumbria/images/penrithcastle.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2063/2021784200_caa84a15c7.jpg?v=0

http://www.english-lakes.com/images/lakes_5/penrith_4.jpg

http://www.visitcumbria.com/pen/penrithbeacon-31127b.jpg

http://www.visitcumbria.com/pen/penrithbeacon-4585a.jpg

http://www.english-lakes.com/images/lakes_5/penrith_2.jpg

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.visitcumbria.com/pen/penrith-1544b.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.visitcumbria.com/pen/penrith.htm&h=399&w=640&sz=77&hl=en&start=7&tbnid=qZDgWTXMleno7M:&tbnh=85&tbnw=137&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dthe%2Bbeacon%2Bpenrith%2Bcumbria%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D21%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN

This is where I dwell. See the last link - there is an aerial photo showing the bulk of the town:
http://www.visitcumbria.com/pen/penrith-0393b.jpg
Well there is a group of tress n bushes just left of the middle of the photo. I am just behind those trees right now!!!

I was up near "the beacon" monument just half an hour ago, scrabbling around on my own in the bushes..... 

http://web.archive.org/web/20060214091217/http://battletech-movie.com/html/tutorials/comments_about_greebling.php 

We need more Greebles!!!
Note to self: Put lots of greebles in next map! Like the "superpipes" tex from Doom3! 

Round 1

Fight! 

Nurbles 

Portuguese art!!!

http://www.mosteirojeronimos.pt/index_mosteiro.html

someone make it :) it even got the plans ;) 

ops English link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jer%C3%B3nimos_Monastery 

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/08/the_large_hadron_collider.html 

 

http://www.splitreason.com/product/538 

rofl 

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/08/the_large_hadron_collider.html

wow! 

i love the amount of HL related comments :p


some of the shots remind me of terminator 3 too 

http://www.viruscomix.com/paintitgrey.jpg 

http://www.viruscomix.com/you%27veangeredit.jpg

man I have a new favorite website 

 

 

Yeah, nice find Lun. And the links are awesome, too! 

http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/news.html?news=MzQxOTUsLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdCwsLDE= 

I thought you mean the earth turning into molted slag, but that video was far worse (though I still liked it).

I know, the researchers will tell you the same class of particles being investigated routinely bombard the earth so you could sleep peacefully on your pillow tonight, unless you read this . . http://www.dallasfed.org/news/speeches/fisher/2008/fs080528.cfm 

for a round of golf tomorrow morning. te-hee 

that "one about video games" is so awesome

I remember one (similarly sarcastic and hilarious) night manager talking about "strategic soul-crushing" when I worked at a fast food place in 2000/1.

btw Lunaran, you have a damn awesome attitude.

The games industry has almost no interest for me anymore. I really look back fondly on the days when playing computer games at all made you a social outcast. Now a massive economy is based on various internet social networks, and they actually make games like The Sims, in fact most games are based on some other pop culture shit, games are exactly like movies now. Not only are the days of 10 nerds brainstorming in a bar and making an awesome game gone, but the days of ANYONE making an awesome game (by my taste) are also gone.

I think my entire life is me frantically fleeing the influence over culture that the average person has. As George Carlin said, "Think about how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half of em are stupider than that." 

There are still a lot of very good games being made, although I obviously have to agree that the industry as a whole has been moving in the wrong direction (from my POV) for some time now.

Metal Gear Solid 4, Unreal Tournament 3, Gears of War, World of Warcraft, Stalker, Oblivion are just a few of the games I consider to be true gems of the past few years. That being sad, the noise to signal ratio of good games to shit games has been increasing at a sad pace.