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Oh, I think this community was always a tad brutal :D 
ID Panel @ 2016 Zbrush Summit 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duj01hm3FTE&t=680s

crazy how 50k - 60k polys per model is considered a tight budget. Also, the end if the vid is gold XD 
John Carmack To Receive Honorary Doctorate 
UMKC recognizes Carmack's contributions to 3D graphics technology.

http://info.umkc.edu/news/they-have-touched-our-lives/

His tweet in response:

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/860229545139548160 
Android/iPhone Mapping 
Possible? I know some alps use a Linux emulator to do Gimp and such on mobile, but do you know if there is something like Trenchbroom Mobile? 
Trenchbroom Mobile !!! 
We need this, so I can poop and map!
I think for mobile it would be easier to use Unity to make some simple editor and deploy it to any platform you like instead of rewriting TB for mobile. 
 
The overhead required for emulation and VMs on mobiles is still well above what they can manage easily.

You would be better off using a modelling tool, saving as OBJ and then converting to map. If only there were good modelling tools for mobile. 
 
presumably you could just compile TB for arm linux, set up some debian/whatever chroot on your phone, install some x11 server app on your phone, and run it that way.
it would need to be a good x11 server if gl rendering is going to work properly though.

of course, the lack of a physical keyboard with a shift key etc would make it totally unusable as-is, so probably not worth trying.

I'm certain most modern phones (and by modern, I mean one for which the following statement is true, which makes it all rather than most but whatever) would have perfectly adequate performance to run a native port of TB, if such a port were made. 
 
Press the screen and tilt your phone in the direction you want to move or expand the brush. 
Input On Mobile 
Yesh keyboard+mouse is by far the faster means of mapping but...a simplified mapping experience could still be fun for waiting in long lines, waiting on your wife to get out of the bathroom, waiting on your wife to try on 10 different outfits before she comes out of the changing room etc. 
This 
https://usecubes.com/design

Now if only it had Quake textures and export to .map then I could block in levels on my phone.

As it is I can sketch ideas. 
 
This is basically how I block out levels in TB 
Oh LOL 
#29113 
Surely, Thats An Oximoron? 
 
I Love Everything About This 
Interesting 
as the personality trait basis of political beliefs is an area in need of desperate investigation. As Jonathan Haidt has pointed out (and I'm not saying I agree with his relativistic views, although being slammed by social justice ideologues seems to have altered those views), there's a huge risk of educated people merely assuming that their way of thinking is superior - and yet some of these people don't believe in biological sex, placing them on exactly the same intellectual level relative to the empirical sciences, as creationists. The point Haidt makes which I agree with the most, is that intellectuals are just as susceptible as regular schmucks to cognitive biases - perhaps more so - but the fact that they assume they have transcended such biases is actually quite dangerous.

The real question is, if scientists ever do understand human personality, can we use that knowledge to more or less, fix politics? Because ever since I've been paying attention, we've been getting some pretty bad results. 
Quoth Knave Jam 
OTP floated the idea a while back to have one in June for Contract Revoked's 15th birthday. Any interest? I wouldn't want to organize it but I would do a map. 
Intel Eligible 
Buy my ID and I unlock your computer for bitcoins! 
Tronyn 
and yet some of these people don't believe in biological sex

Biological sex or gender? Because there's no such thing as "biological gender". All I heard from educated people so far is that gender (being a man or being a woman) is a social construct.

From moral panicked people all I've seen is this confusion between biological sex (XX or XY chromosomes) and gender (what society built, throughout history, as male/female identities).

I've never seen any educated people denying that XY gives you a dick and and XX gives you a pussy, which is a scientific fact, though I'm aware of people defending that Earth is flat and mankind never went to Moon, so... 
 
I am a potato. 
Good Question Adib 
You would think that the people I'm referring to would take your reasonable perspective, but that's not the case. Here in Canada, on national television, a professor with a PhD actually said "It is not correct to say that there is such a thing as biological sex." Not gender, sex. This was actually just brought up in parliamentary proceedings this week because it's directly relevant to some very unfortunate legislation that probably WILL be passed, and then it may actually be illegal to simply conduct research in biology. Lol. Reminds me of Lyshenkoism in Soviet Russia.

You are giving people the benefit of the doubt and I understand that. I also don't want to exaggerate the problem because I tend to take, as one colleague of mine put it, a "Jeremiad view." However, after more than a decade in the higher education system I can confirm to you that many of the most educated people in the humanities and social sciences, at least in Canada, are as anti-scientific as any evangelical creationist, just on behalf of left-wing ideology as opposed to the right-wing ideology of evangelicals. The level of disingenuous ideological bullshit has reached insane heights and I can hardly imagine that even the medieval Catholic church took things this far, except possibly in the case of Galileo. Canadian evolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker's book The Blank Slate came out more than a decade ago and it was incredibly controversial merely for summarizing scientific consensus on these issues. Since then the problem has only gotten worse. Who needs reality when you have bureaucratic power? 
Biological Gender/sex 
is also not defined so distinctly, you can have males with XX chromosomes and women with XY chromosomes. You can also get XXY, XYY, XXX etc ad nauseum.

People who like to draw clear distinctions are being narrow-minded, whether intentionally or through ignorance.

I think there's definitely a current backlash for transgender issues recently since there's a lot of people creating new genders on the fly. I personally think there should be a different term altogether for it.
To say you're a girl in the morning and a guy in the evening isn't being gender-fluid. It's belittling to real transgender people who typically feel a dissonance between their birth gender and their psychological gender. 
Lpowell 
Ionous said he would be organizing quoth jam in June 
I Agree With Fifth 
Also, I tend to agree with John Carmack on some political issues: people should be judged by their productivity and talent above all else.

Politics are largely pointless, despite their effects. 
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