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[PA Comic] Friday, April 13, 2012 - Lickr
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Oh, also, best birthday comic.
Disgusting and awesome.
... But yeah shaking hands, that's a dumb thing to do.
Anecdotal evidence, but I always shake hands, high five, bro-fist, hug, etc and haven't gotten sick over a bunch of PAXes. I think some people use it as an excuse to be antisocial.
I'm pretty sure he was joking. Nobody can honestly believe that handshakes led to sickness.
That's why it's important to piss on them, to rinse away other people's germs.
What if the other guy didn't wash his hands after pooping?
Then we don't shake hands with you.
Second Reality blew my mind when I found it on a BBS.
However, the Moleman's explanation text at that video site is copied from wikipedia. Not cool. Or... he wrote it. Cool! It's either cool or uncool.
that hand has five fingers
WHOSE HAND IS THAT
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
Whoever he is, he killed my father.
Hi5 @PikaPuff. Hi5.
I believe the guy that made the movie's landing page (not 'moleman' - that's the best English translation of the original Hungarian title, roughly slang for 'underground') also wrote the text on Wikipedia, so hopefully cool
Because! Why do people paint pictures? Actually, a better comparison would be 'why do people engage in super hard math problem competitions just for fun.' The competitions themselves aren't going to get you anywhere, but the skills you need to succeed in them are probably going to help your career otherwise. Hence why many demosceners end up working in games development, as professional 'creative types', or etc. To be successful in the scene you have to have both talent AND a very robust work ethic - while also having at least some social skills, because of how demoparties are set up as social events.
For example, arguably the top coder/programmer in the scene right now is a guy who does 3D graphics development for Sony Computer Entertainment Europe as his day job, and then comes home and works hardcore on demos. During PAX, he was at the Revision demoparty in Germany, getting extremely, extremely drunk.
Maybe it's different for people that do signings. I've heard stories at other cons of creators getting sick and they suspect shaking hundreds and hundreds of hands had something to do with it.
Is there a specific word that describes those people that do amazing things with incredibly small files? Like, the team that created a working, decent graphics FPS in a stupidly, stupidly small file?
I showed them, including Second Reality, off at the company I worked for called Berkeley Systems and that convinced them to send some managers to a Demo Scene meetup in Amsterdam to try and recruit some tallent. Sadly nothing came from it (except a couple of managers spending a weekend stoned, so I heard). To this day I keep around a folder of demo's to show to developers, because look at what they can do! Right now I've got "fr-041: debris" running in a virtual machine, it's essentially a concept music video with impressive and clever graphics crammed into a 174k executable. There's some real serious compressions and algorithmically generated content wizardry going on in there.
I'll have to catch up on the scene.
I'd just like to point out that there's no pre-rendered animations/video here, this is all rendered in real time.
Well, at least when you run the actual demo. A Youtube video isn't quite the same.
edit: I watched the video on Youtube now, and it doesn't do the demo justice at all. For one thing, the video is too slow to keep up with a lot of the movements.
If at all possible, you should run the actual demo, maybe in DOSBox.
Personal Quote: "I stare into the void as her molted carapace unfurls, her soaking thorax begging for my gentle touch... and she whispers: "krev unda xcryu!!!". Her slender neck riddled with eggsacks and vestigial maws beckons for my tender head, but what is that I see? Tis a hedgehog, nested upon one of her seven shoulder, her quills beckon for me as well. I now surrender myself as I am filled with countless fertilized eggs and my hands grace the spiky sensuous quills... Yes, yes - a thousand times yes..."
My heart says to love this strip, but my brain says "eww".
But then you'd have to touch Pika and get sick.
Farbrausch have made a lot of good stuff in the last 10 or so years. We also showed .kkrieger at the panel, which was Farbrausch's tech-demo 96-kilobyte FPS. It's not cutting edge in an absolute sense nowadays -- until you realize it's all generated out of a 96k executable!
It's not his own, unless he's Plastic Man. Either he's licking Tycho's hand in demonstration, or panel two is a flashback to a representative licking episode.