@Robster: Thanks for the input, and hopefully you can keep up the work on this series. Very interesting and the editing is pretty sweet.
@Scrawnto: AH! It just kept bothering me, and I had no idea exactly what was happening. That does clear it up for me. I have a very small background in computer animation (mostly CAD work and 3D modeling), but that makes pretty reasonable sense to me. Now I feel like I have a better understanding of aliasing/anti-aliasing as well, so thanks.
Oh and something that bothers me is, well, best explained using Skyrim on consoles. The load screens have items or characters in them, and when it's something like a sword, there is this weird effect of the "jaggies" on the linear regions (edge of sword) "cycle" from a specific point. It looks like the effects of anti-aliasing happening in time my eye can notice. This is hard for me to explain, since I have no idea what is doing that - maybe something to do with the resolution or the rendering cycle? Any help would really clear up my poor brain.
Eh, that's how the world works if you're Chinese, Iranian, Italian, Cuban...
You get the point. Everyone has to deal with this problem from everyone else, it's a fucking sociological paradox I tell you, but it happens all the same. It's not a good thing, but to change that would require the entirety of civilization to agree on something. We're so ass-backwards and so deep in it, that we really can't help but deal with it, unless the nuclear holocaust forced it upon us or something equally world-changing. Racism isn't dead, it's just not acceptable legally anymore.
Hmm...so either we take the president who had to deal with gridlocked Congress for 4 years who did an admirable job given his circumstances, or we have Mitt Romney? I'm going to vote Obama 2012. I also find it ludicrous that people expected him to do more than 8.3% unemployment and +2.8% GDP (2.3?) in 4 years with Boehner as the Speaker and his ilk, not to mention the Tea Partiers being the most asshole pouty motherfuckers in the houses. Sure we're not healthy, but we're not in a recession anymore - though, collapse/decline of the European market or really any major sector means GIGANTIC double dip, or worse another depression - and he's been probably the best diplomat we've had since Clinton.
He functions entirely within his boundaries as CiC, Head Diplomat, Legislator, etc. and he's been more than happy to compromise. He's had his stumbling blocks, but I highly doubt Gingrich is the man for us, and Romney is only slightly above him. Let's not talk about Santorum...proud to be Pennsylvanian!
Final Fantasy is in a very weird predicament, and it's a problem I don't want to think about really. But, I can't help but grow more uncomfortable around the FFVII fanboys. They literally have never played IV, VI, or really any other Final Fantasy that isn't II if they find THAT the pinnacle of the genre/series. I wish I could say that without saying, "fuck anyone who likes that game", but it just isn't as good as the others. It's either a nostalgia fucking bodysuit or just being that much in a vacuum; it's not good. I still cannot play that game past the halfway point (yes, I know full well the major plot points), but nothing about that game ever hooked me.
Well, now that that's out of the way, I was really disturbed by Ryan's comment about FFX-2 on the B'cast. I have a pretty good guess about how much X he has played, and if he thinks that what happens in X is anything other than really good in comparison to the ultimate cop-out of FF history, he's just being kind of dumb.
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