#2715 posted by
Lunaran on 2015/03/27 17:00:30
Removing something from a scene is easy, because you're replacing it with empty background nobody is looking at. Putting something in the scene very much isn't, especially a character that's supposed to be performing. Rather than put the expensive weight of a lot of CGI behind creating a character everyone would be focusing on, they just used it to remove the puppeteer instead.
Beats the hell out of tennis balls on sticks.
So the sun is closest to greenland, canada and britain... makes sense considering how hot those places are... and australia is furthest from the sun, that icy tundra of a country.
#2721 posted by
Lunaran on 2015/04/02 16:47:14
Other than the Tower of Babel, does anyone have any neat reference of a "tower of stairs"? Stuff like Tatlin's Tower:
http://worldhistoryconnected.press.illinois.edu/11.1/images/croizier_fig06b.jpg
or things of that ilk. Tall, and a little out of control.

Hm
#2722 posted by
ijed on 2015/04/02 18:02:54
Not quite the same, but campaniles are weirdly absent from Quake.
https://www.google.cl/search?q=campaniles&rlz=1C1KMZB_enCL575CL575&espv=2&biw=1680&bih=965&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=nmcdVbqeFYKkyAS_pILICQ&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ#tbm=isch&q=medieval+campaniles
I couldn't see of the crumbling examples though. Climbing up the inside of one is pretty hair raising, because there are no internal floors (at least in the one I went up).
#2723 posted by
mfx on 2015/04/02 19:29:36

Memories...
#2727 posted by Mike Woodham on 2015/04/04 09:29:10
Second row, third from left: I used to use a very similar one of these comptometers, made by Burroughs. I used it to work out discounts like thirty-three and one third % plus ten %, which is 40%, not 43.33% of course. More complicated discounts were not so obvious and needed a machine to work out.
Those were the (non-decimal) days when men were men and pin tables were the Quake of the day.
#2728 posted by
JneeraZ on 2015/04/04 11:12:36
mfx - That's an awesome link. And then I saw this : "Curated by Paul Pepera." Ahh, that's why. :)

E-wall
#2733 posted by
Preach on 2015/04/09 22:08:36
3m invents clipping brush, news at 11
#2734 posted by
Lunaran on 2015/04/10 18:33:47

Sometimes How My Brain Feels