“Mitt Is The Shit.” For Ron Paul: “Legalize Everything.”
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The next time a game blows your mind, it will be because the way it moves, not the way it looks. Also: BeamNG’s incredible soft body physics demo will ruin all your favorite racing games.
I’ve come to expect a mind-blowing graphics breakthrough every, oh, five or so years. I remember Starfox, the first 3D game I ever laid eyes on. I remember Mario 64, which has actually held up quite well. I remember Half Life and, much more vividly, Half Life 2, which had both incredible graphics and the first reasonably realistic physics engine. I remember the dynamic light/shadow system in Doom 3, which was the main reason I built my first gaming PC. That was back in 2004:
I remember being bowled over by Crysis, sort of, mainly because of the destructible environments. The last time I was truly amazed by a video game was when I first played LA Noire. That time, it wasn’t the graphics, exactly. It was the slghtly-better-than-uncanny facial movement. Nobody had done that before.
Well, here’s a preview of your next sublime videogame moment: the BeamNG physics engine demo. Unlike most physics engines, this one is built primarily around soft body physics. In a soft body physics simulator, most objects are deformable according material-like properties. Most other physics engines handle damage with a set of predefined breakage patterns; soft body damage is infinitely variable.
The demo video was rendered with Crytek’s graphics engine — BeamNG’s only real game, the free Rigs of Rods, uses the open-source (and much less visually impressive) Ogre engine — which shows off the potential of soft body physics nicely. This is how cars really crash, and how objects behave when the bump into each other.
I doubt this particular engine will be the one that brings soft body physics into the mainstream. The big guys — Havok and Nvidia — are both dabbling in soft body physics now that gaming hardware is powerful enough to support it, and they’ll probably be the ones to bring it to the mainstream. But this is the first truly representative preview of how the games of the future will move, and how profoundly that will affect how they look and feel.
From Cat Stevens to Coldplay to Britney Spears, these songs all sound alike.
Everything Is Terrible! loves the internet and hates nostalgia. An interview with the web’s premiere VHS archeologists.
Everything is Terrible! has been converting thrift-store VHS into viral gold since 2007, when the group of Ohio grads finally decided to take their re-edited VHS tapes online. In the five years since, they’ve become one of the web’s best sources for bizarre video finds and left an impressive footprint on more traditional media. (One of their biggest successes, the infamous cat massage video, landed its subject a guest spot on Letterman.) I talked with EIT’s Airwave Ranger and Ghoul Skool about copyright, the underground VHS trade, and the Randy Quaid Nazi movie that got away.
What are you going for in an Everything is Terrible! video? Is it just terribleness?
GS: So many people say, “those videos are so bad they’re good” but I just hate that. I really don’t like that at all. I know we call the site Everything is Terrible! but there is that exclamation point, meaning how great it is. So it’s not even ironic. I don’t watch bad movies. I wouldn’t want to watch bad movies. I watch good movies. And Deadly Prey is a good movie. We all have different threshholds for what we like, but if I don’t like something I’m not going to put it up on the website. If I like it, I’ll put it up.
What is it about VHS that appeals to you?
AR: I think VHS offers you an old view of the world, the way that we just filled it with shit, from mass mailers to get-rich-quick schemes to how-to videos to shitty action movies to movies that thought they were good. By putting it on VHS and putting it in stores, it’s like we created all this physical thing that’s there everywhere and it’s mostly garbage. The video quality is garbage. But in spite of all that, it has really positive connotations, at least for me.
Do you think it’s a nostalgia thing?
GS: A lot of people talk about the nostalgic part of it. I’m kind of surprised by that because for the most part, it’s stuff that people haven’t seen before at all. That’s what I’m trying to find at least, something that, you don’t know what’s going to happen next and it’s just going to be completely shocking and weird in some interesting way. But I do find it funny how many people say, “I love that stuff because I was 10 when that stuff was out.”
AR: And they’re 20 now. I don’t even think that counts as nostalgia. It’s so weird to me. Like, of course you remember it. It was eight years ago. I hope you remember it. They’re always like, “That’s so ’80s” and it’s 1998, or they’re like, “That’s so ’70s” and it’s like 1989. They think it’s a whole new generation, like your great-great-grandparents or something, but it’s so recent. We want to distance ourselves from something so low-budget, so low-tech, but it’s all recent history.
God bless the internet.
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So you’re going on a fabulous, week-long vacation extravaganza, and you want the whole world to know! Congratulations, we’re jealous. Please ride the line between letting us live vicariously through you and just making us angry.
Take notes of this note, people.
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Have an extra half hour to kill? If you play it right, you can view the Muppet pipes, where The Roots hang out, and if you do it just right, you’ll make it to Jimmy Fallon’s office. Good luck.
Just a couple of women in bikinis at the beach…
According to a redditor, that’s an M4 Carbine, if you’re interested.
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From cashews to cactus, this tenacious little thief wants it all.
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