Friday, August 31, 2012
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
My benchmarks
6950
660ti
Sawsheezle has a bit better processor than mine which probably explains the slightly higher scores for him. Not bad.
660ti
Sawsheezle has a bit better processor than mine which probably explains the slightly higher scores for him. Not bad.
Some benchmarks
Got a new graphics card and RyDub and I were curious about the performance. From what I saw online this card was pretty fast. The card I bought was a Gigabyte GTX 660 ti and upgrading from a Gigabyte Radeon 6850. All settings max at 1920x1080. No optimizations/customizations made in the driver settings. Here are the results from Unigine Heaven v3.0.
660ti card
6850
660ti
You can see for this DX11 benchmark with all settings on max, vsync off, at 1920x1080 the 660ti has a little bit more than twice the performance of my 6850. I can't wait to play Borderlands 2.
RyDub. Run this on your PC and share. Same settings though for comparison.
660ti card
6850
660ti
You can see for this DX11 benchmark with all settings on max, vsync off, at 1920x1080 the 660ti has a little bit more than twice the performance of my 6850. I can't wait to play Borderlands 2.
RyDub. Run this on your PC and share. Same settings though for comparison.
Monday, August 27, 2012
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Genres and Subgenres
Part I:
So, as mentioned previously, I have been watching a lot of films as of late. I think the more film you watch, if you want to watch straight up entertaining film anyway, the more you want to categorize the films based on genre.
(Skip this section as its largely tangential/expositional:
What makes a good comedy? In my opinion is laughs. As long as I get laughs this movie works.
What makes a good action movie? Great fucking action! If I see some sweet ass action, the plot just needs to drive me to the next good action sequence.)
Right now, most blockbuster action movies are Superhero movies. Everyone knows what the superhero genre is, but I its a relatively recent phenomenon. These films kind of showcase all the amazing things we can do with cgi these days, are kind of for everyone, and have a built in fan base/are easily accessible. Still, the Superhero genre is taking forever to be an officially recognized, imo. Anytime I look at a best action movies list, I have to see Batman, which I do not consider true action, but a subgenre Superhero.
Bottom line: There are enough Superhero movies to warrant new classification in the subgenre Superhero. This will allow people, like me, who do not enjoy this genre to simply avoid these pandering children's vehicles.
Part II:
Did you know that swashbuckler is a pretty officially recognized genre? This is a pretty old school genre, that isn't hyper relevant today. The most recent examples of swashbuckler films includes Three Musketeers, Zorro, Pirates of the Carribean, and The Princess Bride.
As long as we are going to continue to acknowledge a subgenre such as swashbuckler, a term that originated in the 16th century (questionable online source), why can't we delineate Superhero movies as their own subgenre?
In addition, Netflix (which observes the swashbuckler genre) lumps Samurai films into the genre with all Martial Arts, which I think is ridiculous. You wouldn't just lump westerns in with swashbucklers, and samurai films share traits with both of these genres.
So, as mentioned previously, I have been watching a lot of films as of late. I think the more film you watch, if you want to watch straight up entertaining film anyway, the more you want to categorize the films based on genre.
(Skip this section as its largely tangential/expositional:
What makes a good comedy? In my opinion is laughs. As long as I get laughs this movie works.
What makes a good action movie? Great fucking action! If I see some sweet ass action, the plot just needs to drive me to the next good action sequence.)
Right now, most blockbuster action movies are Superhero movies. Everyone knows what the superhero genre is, but I its a relatively recent phenomenon. These films kind of showcase all the amazing things we can do with cgi these days, are kind of for everyone, and have a built in fan base/are easily accessible. Still, the Superhero genre is taking forever to be an officially recognized, imo. Anytime I look at a best action movies list, I have to see Batman, which I do not consider true action, but a subgenre Superhero.
Bottom line: There are enough Superhero movies to warrant new classification in the subgenre Superhero. This will allow people, like me, who do not enjoy this genre to simply avoid these pandering children's vehicles.
Part II:
Did you know that swashbuckler is a pretty officially recognized genre? This is a pretty old school genre, that isn't hyper relevant today. The most recent examples of swashbuckler films includes Three Musketeers, Zorro, Pirates of the Carribean, and The Princess Bride.
As long as we are going to continue to acknowledge a subgenre such as swashbuckler, a term that originated in the 16th century (questionable online source), why can't we delineate Superhero movies as their own subgenre?
In addition, Netflix (which observes the swashbuckler genre) lumps Samurai films into the genre with all Martial Arts, which I think is ridiculous. You wouldn't just lump westerns in with swashbucklers, and samurai films share traits with both of these genres.
Friday, August 24, 2012
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Custom laptop builders
RyDub, Jeremy, do you guys know any companies that build laptops. Of course there are Dell and HP and so on, but I mean companies like iBuypower, Cyberpower inc., and so on. Know any other places? Just trying to get a feel for things. I really would like a laptop with 32GB RAM for my electromagnetic simulation software.
Saturday, August 18, 2012
An open letter to RyDub: Borderlands 2 PhysX
I know you may be avoiding trying to see any footage from Borderlands 2, but I was wondering if you saw this PhysX demo. I am not sure if we are actually going to get anything in the physics realm running on our ATI/AMD hardware. Do you have any thoughts/knowledge about this?
It looks to me that in reality, the console version is on the left and the pc version is on the right...
It looks to me that in reality, the console version is on the left and the pc version is on the right...
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Roger Ebert reviews Freddy Got Fingered
Source (from April 20, 2001)
"It's been leading up to this all spring. When David Spade got buried in crap in "Joe Dirt," and when three supermodels got buried in crap in "Head Over Heels," and when human organs fell from a hot-air balloon in "Monkeybone" and were eaten by dogs, and when David Arquette rolled around in dog crap and a gangster had his testicles bitten off in "See Spot Run," and when a testicle was eaten in "Tomcats," well, somehow the handwriting was on the wall. There had to be a movie like "Freddy Got Fingered" coming along.
This movie doesn't scrape the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't below the bottom of the barrel. This movie doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with barrels.
Many years ago, when surrealism was new, Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali made "Un Chien Andalou," a film so shocking that Bunuel filled his pockets with stones to throw at the audience if it attacked him. Green, whose film is in the surrealist tradition, may want to consider the same tactic. The day may come when "Freddy Got Fingered" is seen as a milestone of neo-surrealism. The day may never come when it is seen as funny.
The film is a vomitorium consisting of 93 minutes of Tom Green doing things that a geek in a carnival sideshow would turn down. Six minutes into the film, his character leaps from his car to wag a horse penis. This is, we discover, a framing device--to be matched by a scene late in the film where he sprays his father with elephant semen, straight from the source.
Green plays Gord Brody, a 28-year-old who lives at home with his father (Rip Torn), who despises him, and his mother (Julie Hagerty), who wrings her hands a lot. He lives in a basement room still stocked with his high school stuff, draws cartoons and dreams of becoming an animator. Gord would exhaust a psychiatrist's list of diagnoses. He is unsocialized, hostile, manic and apparently retarded. Retarded? How else to explain a sequence in which a Hollywood animator tells him to "get inside his animals," and he skins a stag and prances around dressed in the coat, covered with blood? His romantic interest is Betty (Marisa Coughlan), who is disabled and dreams of rocket-powered wheelchairs and oral sex. A different kind of sexual behavior enters the life of his brother Freddy, who gets the movie named after him just because, I suppose, Tom Green thought the title was funny. His character also thinks it is funny to falsely accuse his father of molesting Freddy.
Green's sense of humor may not resemble yours. Consider a scene where Gord's best friend busts his knee open while skateboarding. Gord licks the open wound. Then he visits his friend in the hospital. A woman in the next bed goes into labor. Gord rips the baby from her womb and, when it appears to be dead, brings it to life by swinging it around his head by its umbilical cord, spraying the walls with blood. If you wanted that to be a surprise, then I'm sorry I spoiled it for you."
"It's been leading up to this all spring. When David Spade got buried in crap in "Joe Dirt," and when three supermodels got buried in crap in "Head Over Heels," and when human organs fell from a hot-air balloon in "Monkeybone" and were eaten by dogs, and when David Arquette rolled around in dog crap and a gangster had his testicles bitten off in "See Spot Run," and when a testicle was eaten in "Tomcats," well, somehow the handwriting was on the wall. There had to be a movie like "Freddy Got Fingered" coming along.
This movie doesn't scrape the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't below the bottom of the barrel. This movie doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with barrels.
Many years ago, when surrealism was new, Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali made "Un Chien Andalou," a film so shocking that Bunuel filled his pockets with stones to throw at the audience if it attacked him. Green, whose film is in the surrealist tradition, may want to consider the same tactic. The day may come when "Freddy Got Fingered" is seen as a milestone of neo-surrealism. The day may never come when it is seen as funny.
The film is a vomitorium consisting of 93 minutes of Tom Green doing things that a geek in a carnival sideshow would turn down. Six minutes into the film, his character leaps from his car to wag a horse penis. This is, we discover, a framing device--to be matched by a scene late in the film where he sprays his father with elephant semen, straight from the source.
Green plays Gord Brody, a 28-year-old who lives at home with his father (Rip Torn), who despises him, and his mother (Julie Hagerty), who wrings her hands a lot. He lives in a basement room still stocked with his high school stuff, draws cartoons and dreams of becoming an animator. Gord would exhaust a psychiatrist's list of diagnoses. He is unsocialized, hostile, manic and apparently retarded. Retarded? How else to explain a sequence in which a Hollywood animator tells him to "get inside his animals," and he skins a stag and prances around dressed in the coat, covered with blood? His romantic interest is Betty (Marisa Coughlan), who is disabled and dreams of rocket-powered wheelchairs and oral sex. A different kind of sexual behavior enters the life of his brother Freddy, who gets the movie named after him just because, I suppose, Tom Green thought the title was funny. His character also thinks it is funny to falsely accuse his father of molesting Freddy.
Green's sense of humor may not resemble yours. Consider a scene where Gord's best friend busts his knee open while skateboarding. Gord licks the open wound. Then he visits his friend in the hospital. A woman in the next bed goes into labor. Gord rips the baby from her womb and, when it appears to be dead, brings it to life by swinging it around his head by its umbilical cord, spraying the walls with blood. If you wanted that to be a surprise, then I'm sorry I spoiled it for you."
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