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GTA V – The Wormy Fountain

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Re: GTA V – The Wormy Fountain

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Post by swinglock »

simonschreibt wrote: post #21
rob74 wrote: post #2

Forget "Men Who Stare At Goats" - now we have "Thugs who Stare At Fountains" :D But jokes aside, this is a really interesting and approachable article! It just suffers a little bit from the writer not being a native speaker. I'm German myself, maybe that's why I notice the German tendency to "concatenate" words (e.g. "surface-topology" or "cloth-simulation") even more when it is (mis)used in English? Just some constr…

Thanks for the hints! :) Yeah my English isn't that good. I use it sometimes to - often - to make sure its understood that the words belong together but let me look up the rules... ...ah, there is no rule :D It is recommented to check the dictionary :D p.s. I've also changed it to Mortal Kombat :)

Getting a hang of when to use "its" and "it's" is more important, if you don't mind me saying so.

Re: GTA V – The Wormy Fountain

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Post by jordanbeiber »

justaj wrote: post #30
kabes wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I sometimes just start rdr2 just to be amazed again on how far game development has come. It's a shame though that as an programmer, I can't really play games anymore without constantly thinking: "how is that made?" And before I know it I'm taken out of the game and imagining algorithms. Very annoying, but can't help myself.

For me I can't play games anymore because there's something in the back of my head going "Why am I not learning or creating something? I should be improving my skills right now." Very frustrating.

Cut yourself some slack! :)

The brain needs it, and who knows, you might get inspired.

I know what you mean though, but I’ve been working hard to just let my brain rest at times. Games can be useful to turn off or tune down the machinery at times.

Re: GTA V – The Wormy Fountain

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Post by robodale »

cyrux004 wrote: post #11
mhh__ wrote: post #3

Slightly off topic but the level of technical and artistic detail in GTA5 never ceases to amaze me. It's shame it's so muddled thematically but it's a tour de Force of game development

I rarely play games these days now that I have 3 kids under 5 years old. The last full game I played for GTA V on my still working xbox 360. If GTA VI comes out , I will probably buy a new console just so I can play the game knowing that I might not use the console for that game only

Same here. GTA VI launch...I'm getting the next gen console.

Re: GTA V – The Wormy Fountain

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Post by NikolaeVarius »

swinglock wrote: post #31
simonschreibt wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the hints! :) Yeah my English isn't that good. I use it sometimes to - often - to make sure its understood that the words belong together but let me look up the rules... ...ah, there is no rule :D It is recommented to check the dictionary :D p.s. I've also changed it to Mortal Kombat :)

Getting a hang of when to use "its" and "it's" is more important, if you don't mind me saying so.

It's not like native speakers care for the distinction.

Re: GTA V – The Wormy Fountain

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Post by dwighttk »

eternalny1 wrote: post #17
grenoire wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think Rockstar truly took that attention to detail to the next level with Red Dead Redemption 2. Everything is taken into account, down to the animal behaviour. You can even spot birds! https://www.audubon.org/news/birding-its-1899-inside-blockbu...

Talk about a "tour de force" for video games. RDR2 is mind-blowing. I've already finished the game, and am still playing it just to walk around and do silly stuff like fishing and hunting, which I would NEVER normally do in a game. But I can't keep away from RDR2. It's by far the best game ever created IMHO. I've never been so moved by an ending (I got the "high honor" ending in the main game). Spoiler alert: https:/…

I love RDR2's world

I hated every second of the main story. I would have been alright with starting at the epilogue and throwing out the entire story before that.

My friends are always trying to get me to enjoy and not skip cut scenes in games so I gave this one a try. NEVER AGAIN.

Re: GTA V – The Wormy Fountain

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Post by pontifier »

simonschreibt wrote: post #21
rob74 wrote: post #2

Forget "Men Who Stare At Goats" - now we have "Thugs who Stare At Fountains" :D But jokes aside, this is a really interesting and approachable article! It just suffers a little bit from the writer not being a native speaker. I'm German myself, maybe that's why I notice the German tendency to "concatenate" words (e.g. "surface-topology" or "cloth-simulation") even more when it is (mis)used in English? Just some constr…

Thanks for the hints! :) Yeah my English isn't that good. I use it sometimes to - often - to make sure its understood that the words belong together but let me look up the rules... ...ah, there is no rule :D It is recommented to check the dictionary :D p.s. I've also changed it to Mortal Kombat :)

That was truly amazing fluid motion at the end of your video! with a couple of tweaks to hide the looping I can see this being used everywhere.

Re: GTA V – The Wormy Fountain

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Post by gruez »

NikolaeVarius wrote: post #34
swinglock wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Getting a hang of when to use "its" and "it's" is more important, if you don't mind me saying so.

It's not like native speakers care for the distinction.

Thats a pretty low bar too set. in a informal context, native speakers will forgive most other grammatical mistakes as well.

Re: GTA V – The Wormy Fountain

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Post by swinglock »

NikolaeVarius wrote: post #34
swinglock wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Getting a hang of when to use "its" and "it's" is more important, if you don't mind me saying so.

It's not like native speakers care for the distinction.

As a reader I think that distinction is more important than whether using a hyphen is correct, assuming the goal is to make oneself understood. That's all I meant.

Re: GTA V – The Wormy Fountain

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Post by draw_down »

rob74 wrote: post #2

Forget "Men Who Stare At Goats" - now we have "Thugs who Stare At Fountains" :D But jokes aside, this is a really interesting and approachable article! It just suffers a little bit from the writer not being a native speaker. I'm German myself, maybe that's why I notice the German tendency to "concatenate" words (e.g. "surface-topology" or "cloth-simulation") even more when it is (mis)used in English? Just some constr…

I don’t think nitpicking the writing here is helpful. It’s perfectly understandable, at least to a native English speaker.

We’re smart people, we can amend “a both” to “both”. Have faith! :)

Re: GTA V – The Wormy Fountain

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Post by 91bananas »

justaj wrote: post #30
kabes wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I sometimes just start rdr2 just to be amazed again on how far game development has come. It's a shame though that as an programmer, I can't really play games anymore without constantly thinking: "how is that made?" And before I know it I'm taken out of the game and imagining algorithms. Very annoying, but can't help myself.

For me I can't play games anymore because there's something in the back of my head going "Why am I not learning or creating something? I should be improving my skills right now." Very frustrating.

So agree here, I built a PC to play a few games last year and I haven't turned it on in months, feels like such a waste of time. But at the same time I waste countless hours doing other dumb stuff that and reading about things I will probably never actually implement. We need to play more is probably what it comes down to.
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