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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 rob74 »

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 constructive criticism, in case the author reads this...

...and of course it should be "Mortal Kombat" ;)

Re: GTA V – The Wormy Fountain

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Post by mhh__ »

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

Re: GTA V – The Wormy Fountain

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Post by grenoire »

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 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...

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Post by thih9 »

> I didn’t embed the video directly to avoid any tracking from Google and complications with the DSGVO.

I appreciate this and I wish this behaviour was more popular.

I especially like how it increases awareness of the problem.

Re: GTA V – The Wormy Fountain

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Post by heavenlyblue »

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…

When I saw this I’ve thought the author used a dash to indicate irony or something along those lines.

I didn’t see any irony so assumed I lack context.

Re: GTA V – The Wormy Fountain

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Post by kabes »

grenoire wrote: post #4
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 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...

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.

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Post by icebraining »

thih9 wrote: post #5

> I didn’t embed the video directly to avoid any tracking from Google and complications with the DSGVO. I appreciate this and I wish this behaviour was more popular. I especially like how it increases awareness of the problem.

But then the laminar flow video was directly embedded - d'oh!
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