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It looks like a WIP VRay render in real time. Not bad...quite impressive, but certainly not even close to photorealism. If you know the physics of light, you still seen instances where it's fucking up, even in the Enlighten demo, which in itself was pretty noisy; replication of light to any significant degree of accuracy is expensive as fuck. That won't change.

Use my Lenovo Idea pad 2012-era mobile i5 for Python,QT, MEL, C++ development for Maya and Houdini for about 2 years now. Still prefer my desktop due to the amount of screenspace I have (Ultrabook has trouble getting 4K res), but it works wonders for doing some couch-deving.

Don't use Photoshop for logos. Use Illustrator. Pixelation and compression artificats suck in logos; vector that shit.

Christopher Nolan DID NOT direct Man of Steel. That was Zach Snyder. Nolan did have a producer credit and was a part of the story team. He's basically a non-factor in how the movie was made/finalizaed, just that it got made in the first place. The film was far more in line and was tailored to Snyder's directing style. That said, there's no such thing as 'best director', as the director is subservient to the style of film being made. Nolan wouldn't be able to direct a dark comedy like Wes Anderson, or have that edginess of a Tarintino. Each director's particular flair has a niche....even if that niche is 'mother-fuckin money' (Michael Bay).

Which is totally why you didn't care enough to find out the information available since last summer? You can be pissed all you want, but unless you want people to take 'ethics in games journalism' seriously, then I'd strongly suggest you make an effort to dig into EVERY SINGLE writer. Otherwise, it will continue to be a bully pulpit for those that somehow piss off the legions of keyboard warriors with stories that we should encourage them to be writing.

Although 'ethics in games journalism' may have started on noble grounds, but it's been predominately used as a bully pulpit to publicly shame writers who for some reason or another rub the Internet community the wrong way. Like the PC Gamer writer, who wrote an opinion piece about how the PC Master race isn't such a great title. Before that piece, no one gave a crap that he'd been dating a Ubsoft customer service/pr person since the SUMMER OF LAST YEAR. Once the piece dropped and riled up the pissed off slueths, his relationship, only then, became a big deal. That said, it's really quite hypocritcal to want reviews, and want them to be free of biases, when a review is infact about the interpretation of a game through one's biases. Total Biscuit isn't apart of games journalism; he's a personality, and acts accordingly. All you need to do to get TB into a mouth-foaming 5 minute rant is to present a clunky options menu; no legitimate journalist would do such a thing.

http://www.imdb.com/chart/top (Top 250 from IMDB). Other films I'd recommend that aren't on the list: Mr. Nobody The Zero Theorem Moon Holy Motors Drive (2011) Breakfast Club Moonrise Kingdom Grand Budapest Hotel Fury Being John Malkovich Lost in Translation Girl w the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish) Mean Streets The Book of Life

15 with a sportscar. Yep, I'd hate to be your parents to pay your insurance premiums. Don't be an idiot. Don't get a sportscar for your first car.

Something like git, CVS, subversion. Although things like git are meant for text-based files, you shouldn't have an issue using other files. It takes a little extra HDD space to store the metadata for the files that you want to track and version.

Invest it. Buy some stock. Put it in a Roth IRA. Save it for college. Whatever you do, don't spend it unless you find a reason to. Having money but not knowing what to spend it on is wholly the wrong way to look at it. Keep it. Invest it. Store it until you have a goal in mind.

Speak for yourself. Some of us actually use our hardware in production apps. Faster hardware=faster turnaround time=more artist iterations=better looking CG for less=more money

A least you didn't do that with a dick pic.

Yep, we don't care about ethics in games journalism, UNLESS you piss off the PC Master Race and write something we don't like. If we don't like your opinion, we will dig through months and years of social media posts and find something to smear you with. #gamergate

50 acres is probably going to cost you 40ish k. Land is an investment, yes, but an investment that also requires significant capital...particularly additional capital need to entice or build the facilities to entice those you want to tenant the land. It's a risk in itself. There are countless stories of people that got fucked doing exactly what you're doing especially if the don't do their due diligence (IE: buying land that's all clay and practically worthless for agriculture). The lack of due diligence applies to credit because that's how you get fucked. The problem you have is that you simply refuse to separate simply having a credit card to abusing it (the "FUCK IT, CREDIT CARD BITCH" line). Is debt a massive problem? Yes, absolutely. However, when something is dangerous you simply don't just say 'STAY AWAY! FEAR THIS! FEAR! UNCERTAINTY! DOUBT!' as it perpetuates misunderstanding and abuse (see: drugs, firearms, ect). The proper way is to acknowledge and respect the danger through the safe and effective use so that people don't fall victim. Again, as you even concluded others particularly in high cost of living areas simply won't have the option.

OpenOffice or Libre Office should be more than adequate as they both read MS office extensions.