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by thenomad 13y ago
The second dev kit isn't coming out for a little while yet, from all reports. I'd get one now if you're wanting to develop for it, but if you're just wanting to experience it, you might as well hold off. The second DK wi
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by thenomad 13y ago
Maybe. As a filmmaker, I'm extremely interested by the Rift, not least because it appears to partially offset the "uncanny valley", at least from early tests. Old games with dodgy character models (Half-Life 2) are much more
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A Virtual Filmmaking Primer(antipope.org)
4 points by thenomad 13y ago|0 comments
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by thenomad 13y ago
Obvious question is obvious, but may also be helpful: have you seen a competent psychotherapist? If the tension is indeed psychosomatic, then treating the psychological cause may be the way to go. Other things that would be worth investigat
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by thenomad 13y ago
Thank you very much! That's exactly what we were going for, and it's fantastic to hear that you appreciated it.
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by thenomad 13y ago
It's been a looooong time since I fiddled with the Quake 2 source, but I remember the basics. 1) Yep, it's easiest to compile on Windows, I think. Not sure about Linux, but I recall that the projects were Visual Studio based. 2) I
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by thenomad 13y ago
Electronic Arts, computer games company famous for misuse of overtime.
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How AAA Games Swell To $200m Budgets(tobolds.blogspot.co.uk)
2 points by thenomad 13y ago|0 comments
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by thenomad 13y ago
I'm going to be posting some over the next few days, actually - plus a series over at Charlie Stross's blog talking about the past, present and future of Machinima.
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by thenomad 13y ago
Actually, they were very enthusiastic about the project from the word go - the fact that it's considerably different to the run of the mill short film was a significant draw, I think. I think that hacker types like us underestimate
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Show HN: My 5-year mocap Machinima project with Hollywood stars(deathknightlovestory.com)
10 points by thenomad 13y ago|7 comments
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by thenomad 13y ago
Speaking as someone with a commercial-grade sous-vide bath and variable-temperature PID-controlled pouring kettle sitting on his worktop, a microwave is also a useful gadget even for high-end cookery. It's one of the best ways to cook
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by thenomad 13y ago
From memory (I don't have my copy of "Peopleware" here), there was an large IBM study in the '80s that showed 40 hours as the practical optimum work week. Could be remembering incorrectly, though.
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by thenomad 13y ago
Yes, definitely agreed. One of the most productive things I've done in the current crunch time has been to spend a bit more money on buying pre-prepared vegetables and meat during crunch. Extremely simple, but (given I cook all my
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by thenomad 13y ago
Not sure there's really any need for the ad-hominem, is there? I'm replying to comments on this thread because I'm the author of the original post, and it's polite to respond to people commenting on your work :) I suspec
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by thenomad 13y ago
Ah, right, yes. I agree. Crunch time happens. (I'd argue that in rare cases, it can last up to a few weeks - like, say, if you're launching a film you've spent years on.) Months of crunch time, though, is just a Bad Idea. I a
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by thenomad 13y ago
I'm not sure how "work harder than usual in the run-up to a launch" == "rely on a miracle". I suspect we may be used to sufficiently different industries that we're speaking at cross purposes, though.
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by thenomad 13y ago
Death marches are sometimes necessary (or at least useful enough to be worth the inconvenience) even in careers you love, though. Two weeks before the launch of a book/film/whatever, for example, would be a classic time when burni
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by thenomad 13y ago
Ugh. I feel for anyone stuck in an environment where appearing ill is actually considered a positive sign. Pretty much the definition of a toxic workplace?
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by thenomad 13y ago
They're useful occasionally - at least, when working on one's own projects. Certainly, as an indie filmmaker, there are times when temporarily doubling my output is vital, usually in the run-up to a launch (like now). If you'
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by thenomad 13y ago
Definitely! I really should have put that in the article: sleep is vital. What I've been doing on my current death march is ensuring that the only non-working time I'm taking is right before bed: just long enough to watch an episo
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How To Survive A Death March(antipope.org)
57 points by thenomad 13y ago|57 comments
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by thenomad 13y ago
EU-only and a bit more expensive, but I really like Bytemark's BigV: http://www.bigv.io
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by thenomad 13y ago
Eeeeexcelllent... That's great to know, thanks. My gf has just aquired a lower-res BenQ 27", and it's a great monitor - good to know that their 1440p models are as good.
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by thenomad 13y ago
I read your post - which was very interesting, thanks. I'm probably going to avoid the Seikis - I'm a reasonably keen gamer on the same machine I work on, and more significantly, I work on 25fps video as a significant part of my j
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by thenomad 13y ago
Well, that's made my mind up. I'm actually about to upgrade my monitor setup, and I've been considering the merits of one large 4k monitor vs 3 27" monitors at 1440p. 4k would be lovely. A 4k 39" monitor with decent
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by thenomad 13y ago
Really? That's very good news, and I hadn't heard about it at all. Do you have some links to orgs working to get more men into female-skewed professions? I'd be very interested to read them.
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by thenomad 13y ago
The most promising tech for real-time location sensing right now us Ultra-Wide-Band based tech. You need sensing times in the picoseconds, but apparently that's actually doable. This guy managed to get one of these systems working, and
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by thenomad 13y ago
Seems like 2014 might be the year of photogrammetry, between this and the Microsoft thing posted a few days ago. There's a lot of VERY impressive photogrammetry software out there - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by thenomad 13y ago
Yup, this is exactly what I'm hoping for too. 39", 4k, 60hz or more - and that's my next upgrade sorted.

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