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[zustifer]

Seriously, this shit looks good to someone? Please impart what thou dost smoke, for myself wishes fervently to avoid it completely.

Fucking Raven.

[later note: Whoops, looks like they moved the thread or something. Original link was from here. I guess if someone links it again, I'll repost.]

[even later note: I signed up so I could try to find it again, but so far I can't. Best thread title: 'Neue Schule ist die Hölle']

Comments

[anti-cyclone.livejournal.com]

It wants me to log in, auf Deutsch, no less! Could you post a screen capture or something? I'm curious to see what constitutes "bad" in the world of computer renderings.

[diaryarena.livejournal.com]

Well, it was magazine scans. And before the issue was off the stands.

But yeah, it was pretty gross. If nothing else, will these frat-boy artists PLEASE someday get tired of making elaborate mechanical codpieces?

[sanspoof.livejournal.com]

Yeah, real normal-mappy generica. (note to those who care less about this: normal mapping is what's going on when you see a model that looks detailed, but his silhouette edges are choppy and polygon-y. I think this looks like hell, but for some reason people looooove it.)
Dude, if they made REAL codpieces, that would be MUCH BETTER. Perhaps with skulls on them. And if those flying skulls from doom 3 made out all the time. With marines.

[diaryarena.livejournal.com]

Now I am imagining the next Leisure Suit Larry game being an historical adventure based on the writing of Rabelais.

Will you maintain, quoth Pantagruel, that the codpiece is the chief piece of a military harness? It is a new kind of doctrine, very paradoxical; for we say, At spurs begins the arming of a man. Sir, I maintain it, answered Panurge, and not wrongfully do I maintain it. Behold how nature, having a fervent desire, after its production of plants, trees, shrubs, herbs, sponges, and plant-animals, to eternize and continue them unto all succession of ages (in their several kinds or sorts, at least, although the individuals perish) unruinable, and in an everlasting being, hath most curiously armed and fenced their buds, sprouts, shoots, and seeds, wherein the above-mentioned perpetuity consisteth, by strengthening, covering, guarding, and fortifying them with an admirable industry, with husks, cases, scurfs and swads, hulls, cods, stones, films, cartels, shells, ears, rinds, barks, skins, ridges, and prickles, which serve them instead of strong, fair, and natural codpieces. As is manifestly apparent in pease, beans, fasels, pomegranates, peaches, cottons, gourds, pumpions, melons, corn, lemons, almonds, walnuts, filberts, and chestnuts; as likewise in all plants, slips, or sets whatsoever, wherein it is plainly and evidently seen, that the sperm and semence is more closely veiled, overshadowed, corroborated, and thoroughly harnessed, than any other part, portion, or parcel of the whole.

Awwwwww yeah.

Normal mapping is great for walls! But it's like everyone making video games over the past year or so is really excited that games can finally look as uh good as they do in Reboot.

[sanspoof.livejournal.com]

Aww, plant-animals!
Also, somehow I wackyparsed 'great for walls' as 'great for whelks.'

Normal mapping

[anti-cyclone.livejournal.com]

Ahh, ok. I've seen this phenomenon, and find it distracting, and bothersome to the eye.

[(Anonymous)]

The point isn't to look GOOD, it's to impress the same people who have been looking at game screenshots for the past 5 years.

Of course, even within that space, Raven manages to be spectacularly boring.