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Shocked, rest in peace Ryan... I never got to meet you and I live on the other side of the world but I still feel like I lost a close friend. You will be forever missed. All of my well wishes go out to the Ryans family and friends and the Giant Bomb crew... stay strong!

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I think he looks more like Sons of Anarchy's Lincoln Potter, like almost exactly...

Anyways, RIP, Steve

As a bald bearded guy, i still prefer the old look but maybe that's because i'm not fat. Regardless of how Max looks, i'm looking forward to the game. The different look shouldn't necessarily detract from the gameplay and I hope it hooks into an interesting storyline. I don't see why everyone's so worried, change isn't always bad and R* usually delivers the goods.

Yup, looks sweet. Cool idea and execution, i especially like the moody lighting. Only crit would be the beams coming from the reflections are a bit much.

@Gamer_152: Hey man, thanks for your reply, the kind welcome and your comments on my modelling work, it's very much appreciated.

About the social media stuff. I have to admit that I wasn't looking to start a discussion, i just thought I'd write something to get the blog achievement. I didn't even intentionally put it up on the forum, that kinda happened by accident. I'm still getting accustomed to the site. However, I don't regret my post ending up here because i very much enjoyed reading your reply. It's a perspective I hadn't really taken myself before but theres definitely truth in it. At times it seems like anything that happens on social media is completely random and dumb but every now and then you stumble upon something relevant or inspiring. I suppose that's enough to make it worthwhile. I'll remain hesitant to posting my mood or silly things like that but maybe i shouldn't be as defiant. My own "blog" is intended more as a portfolio than anything else but yeah... I know it seems like a double standard but it was intended as a little bit of a joke. And, like I said... I didn't think anyone would actually read it. ;-)

@Muerthoz: Thanks man. Cool that you made it that far into the vid... I made the mistake of showing off the details first and then starting the cool animations. I should've done it the other way around. I've been meaning to fix that but.... you know.

Thanks for the kind words of welcome guys! I've been visiting GB for longer but hadn't really made an effort to mingle in the community, the reason for that being that I'm socially awkward as made apperant in my first blog post :-P But obviously I shouldn't have been so withholding, the GB community seems totally awesome!

@Hector, I did design the turtle as a potential boss character. The model even made it into the U3 engine, although just as a test. You can check out the vid on thispage on my site if you're interested in taking a look.

I'm rather uncomfortable "blogging" but i want the achievement so here goes. You know what, for my very first blorgh i'm actually gonna talk about just that. Blarghing or twatting and facepaging is all weird and disgusting to me. I know it's been going on for quite some time by now, but i'm still weirded out by it.

The stupid thing, i know, is that theres no escaping and eventually i'll participate in all that crap. I used to be one of those people that thought mobile phones were stupid. I tried to hold out but eventually i caved, social pressure is a powerful and scary beast. Still, though i feel like having sold my soul... I remember why I used to dislike mobile phones and why I now hate social media. It's actually pretty simple, since text messaging started in the late nineties and we're now digging a deeper hole with social media... It's all contributing to the trivialization of communication. I realize i'm acting like a grumpy old man but smalltalk is useless and stupid and what social media boils down to is using superawesome impressive spaceage technology for trivial bullshit!

Incidently, i'm a professional 3d modeller for games. If you want to scope out my stuff, please visit my blog! (i know, i'm a hypocrite): www.jeroenbackx.com

Heres a sample of the type of stuff i like to make:

Awesome as always, hope a new one pops up soon! And yeah, I care more about you guys finishing Condemned than necessarily finishing the wall.