I find it fascinating that the second picture down (rainy diner scene) has a mobile device in it with a strobing screen. His other works have CRT displays that, when filmed, do tend to strobe according to their refresh rate. LCD screens, however, do not. That makes this a neat example of visual language being used to imply function, even when that function doesn't match the object being represented.

I'm interpreting this as pretty hardcore satire. Is anyone else picking up on that?

There is a critical gap between the sensibilities of Doom/Quake/Duke and Painkiller/Serious Sam: level flow. The latter camp is in varying degrees a series of rooms you get locked into as enemies spawn in waves. The former involves navigating a highly varied environment as you attract the attention of pre-existing enemies.

Sure, on the avatar scale, they play at a similar level. The environments are what really set the earlier generation apart, and in that respect very little approaches that sort of design.

Painkiller sometimes does that, but other times it gives you levels like Docks, where as much vertical traversal is expected as horizontal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-0yJ2V41Jk

I'll happily agree that Painkiller has some more variation then SS, but on the whole it's much more focused with wave-based arenas. This isn't a knock against Painkiller at all, it's a favorite of mine - yet it's still a bit inaccurate to regard it as classical level design.

Yeah, you're right. I went and watched the entire video and while they hide it well by having really big arenas, it's still just kill rooms.

This leads to what strikes me as a potentially negative heuristic for determining what moments in a given film have worth. Summer flick drivel aside, would RunPee assign a high pee time to, say, Drive, which has a significant amount of mood-setting long shots without any dialogue or plot-relevant action?

Excuse me for probably taking this too far, but this app seems to imply that films are merely the sum of plot-related scenes, and that doesn't sit quite well with me. Would the app consider every establishing shot in Alien to be pee-able?

This is a neat implementation! I'd be happier to see some attribution in regards to the assets being used, however.

This was a custom player model made for Quake II multiplayer, and it is used by some players today.

Readme for the model: https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/blob/master/examples/mode...

The weapon models are actually the stock Quake II models/textures except in the case of the first one, which is the model included with the custom mesh. These are technically freely available through the Quake II CTF demo, but fair warning if you attempt to use these in your project.

Jehar, there are credits and links in the intro. I will update the post with your modificaiton

It has promise, but it irks me that trouble was went to to include the iconography, but they aren't interactive - only the labels are.

From a composition standpoint, that really is a rather excellent poster. The central gag is obvious, but there are several little things contributing to it. And the header motif is clever without overshadowing the main content.

At risk of turning this into an echo chamber:

In-App Purchases become intrinsic mechanical elements of a player's experience of the game. This results in the design skewing towards encouraging "positive" events, namely making purchases. At this point, the mechanical goals of the game become abstracted, or even split - your game isn't about the mechanics of the puzzle anymore, it's about producing those positive events.

More to the point, it seems that the police must skew towards that attempted 0% risk, which is what starts snowballs like this.

I find it ironic that with all of the talk flying around about nothing being private, a facebook conversation that would potentially exonerate this guy can't be dredged up.

It's hard for me to crystallize my thoughts on what needs to happen here, because the details, have up until this article, been incredibly confusing and contradictory. At the last report, this conversation took place within League of Legends itself. Apparently that wasn't the case. What other details about the information the jury had access to do we not know?

Look into != jail for several months.

There are (supposedly) fairly well-defined use cases for probable cause and sufficient evidence to prosecute, and it seems these were all trampled over in this case.

In regards to the Judas Priest comments, I think that may have been some unintentional hyperbole/satire, pointing at the widely disproved profiling of school shooters. The Harris/Klebold case had a lot of cultural baggage of that type, most of which was fabricated by journalists. Citing them as fans of Marilyn Manson is one example; they possessed no Manson albums or memorabilia.

> Look into != jail for several months.

Oh, absolutely. The utter travesty and corruption after the arrest is atrocious. And that sort of stuff seems to happen way too often in the US. I'm not defending that at all.

The only thing I'm saying is that treating threats as a joke is stupid and dangerous, and the police should investigate threats, and not assume they're merely a joke without investigating.

Apparently that makes me a minority on HN, and most people here seem to think joke threats are okay. I don't.