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FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
sexually

qirex posted:

we're going to make a tv show set in our universe made up entirely of massive sci-fi set pieces but we don't want it to be expensive

when people hear "halo" they think "long talky scenes in cramped, mostly empty rooms"

# ? Nov 6, 2014 19:59

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# ? May 9, 2024 19:50

univbee: Jun 3, 2004

qirex posted:

we're going to make a tv show set in our universe made up entirely of massive sci-fi set pieces but we don't want it to be expensive

if only they could use the already existing special effects and assets they made for the in-game cutscenes, i mean they could have people in a lan game as actors and wiggle their heads around for talking, a movie, made with the machine, anima-ted, some college bros could do it for free even

# ? Nov 6, 2014 19:59

mod sassinator: Dec 13, 2006; I came here to Kick Ass and Chew Bubblegum,
and I'm All out of Ass

Space-Pope posted:

microaoft is on my campus today. exactly one person was checking out their SUV booth things when i walked past

i remember at my school the computer science department had a student that was a microsoft 'ambassador' or something which really just meant he would have a meeting every month with poo poo loads of free pizza. and not like stingy cheese and pepperoni only. i'm talking mountains of every type of pizza. it was glorious.

oh and i guess he blabbered on about .net or something for a bit too

# ? Nov 6, 2014 20:06

DaNzA: Sep 11, 2001; :D; Grimey Drawer

univbee posted:

if only they could use the already existing special effects and assets they made for the in-game cutscenes, i mean they could have people in a lan game as actors and wiggle their heads around for talking, a movie, made with the machine, anima-ted, some college bros could do it for free even

can't they just get christopher nolan and that french guy who made gravity and a blank check

it's not like their marketing budget is doing much anyway judging from the recent cnn iPad thing

# ? Nov 6, 2014 20:59

Blackula69: Apr 1, 2007; ＤＥＨＵＭＡＮＩＺＥＹＯＵＲＳＥＬＦ＆ＦＡＣＥＴＯＢＬＡＣＵＬＡ

DaNzA posted:

that french guy who made gravity

really

# ? Nov 6, 2014 21:07

Beeftweeter: Jun 28, 2005; OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

qirex posted:

so microsoft previewed the super cool ridley scott-produced halo tv series to the press in advance of its premiere on xbox video

keep in mind this is the one ms studios project they kept after dropping all their other original programming

i'm betting there was some sort of contractual obligation that all CGI had to be rendered on a xbone

# ? Nov 6, 2014 22:53

Wiggly Wayne DDS: Sep 11, 2010

Beeftweeter posted:

i'm betting there was some sort of contractual obligation that all CGI had to be rendered on a xbone

i didn't realise it was a stop motion film

# ? Nov 6, 2014 23:02

Pinterest Mom: Jun 9, 2009

Blackula69 posted:

really

Alphonse Caron

# ? Nov 6, 2014 23:03

MrMoo: Sep 14, 2000

mod sassinator posted:

i remember at my school the computer science department had a student that was a microsoft 'ambassador' or something which really just meant he would have a meeting every month with poo poo loads of free pizza. and not like stingy cheese and pepperoni only. i'm talking mountains of every type of pizza. it was glorious.

oh and i guess he blabbered on about .net or something for a bit too

Free food always works at uni, those Microsoft booths have nothing free so no one cares.

# ? Nov 7, 2014 01:44

duTrieux.: Oct 9, 2003

MrMoo posted:

Free food always works ~~at uni, those Microsoft booths have nothing free so no one cares.~~

# ? Nov 7, 2014 01:46

BobHoward: Feb 13, 2012; The only thing white people deserve is a bullet to their empty skull

in the dinosaur ages when i were a college kid sgi had an 18 wheeler painted that simultaneously awful and radical sgi purple with the sgi logo and everyhing and inside there were legendary weird blob shape purple sgi workstations running fucken awesome demos and they drove it to my school even tho we were not primarily a cs/eng school and it was p loving rad and tons of people toured it and got handed come-work-for-us literature. they also handed out swag like this letter opener i still have which looks liek the sgi truck

what im saying is sgi was fucken cool they didnt even have to hand out food. microsoft is not cool and has never been cool

thats my story hope u liked it

# ? Nov 7, 2014 02:20

Sham bam bamina!: Nov 6, 2012; ƨtupid cat

sgi was the last great embodiment of 20th-century technological optimism

now it's all poo poo, everything's poo poo, welcome to the dystopian cyberpunk future

# ? Nov 7, 2014 03:05

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

duTrieux. posted:

you can't edit create new powerpoint files on the mobile versions because why the gently caress would you be making a powerpoint deck on a mobile device, like what is even wrong with you

lol if you've used anything but keynote to make a presentation since its release

# ? Nov 7, 2014 03:26

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

qirex posted:

we're going to make a tv show set in our universe made up entirely of massive sci-fi set pieces but we don't want it to be expensive

massive sci-if set pieces "paying homage" to popular sci-if franchises

attaching Ridley Scott was a good idea given how much of everything Bungie came straight from Alien

I wonder if they also managed to involve Larry Niven, or just pay him off

# ? Nov 7, 2014 03:31

hobbesmaster: Jan 28, 2008

eschaton posted:

massive sci-if set pieces "paying homage" to popular sci-if franchises

attaching Ridley Scott was a good idea given how much of everything Bungie came straight from Alien

I wonder if they also managed to involve Larry Niven, or just pay him off

niven would probably just hand them the script to the star trek animated series episode he wrote

# ? Nov 7, 2014 03:36

BobHoward: Feb 13, 2012; The only thing white people deserve is a bullet to their empty skull

eschaton posted:

massive sci-if set pieces "paying homage" to popular sci-if franchises

attaching Ridley Scott was a good idea given how much of everything Bungie came straight from Alien

I wonder if they also managed to involve Larry Niven, or just pay him off

iirc bungie people said their direct inspiration was the orbitals in banks' culture novels and welp, he dead :rip:

# ? Nov 7, 2014 03:40

theadder: Dec 30, 2011

Only paid users will be able to change the orientation of a document between portrait and landscape mode. Free users can open landscape documents, but can't change them, and will create all new documents in portrait.

# ? Nov 7, 2014 04:19

theadder: Dec 30, 2011

Paid users can format documents into columns. Free users can open existing documents with columns and edit the text, but can't modify or undo the columns themselves.

# ? Nov 7, 2014 04:22

Asymmetric POSTer: Aug 17, 2005

theadder posted:

Only paid users will be able to change the orientation of a document between portrait and landscape mode. Free users can open landscape documents, but can't change them, and will create all new documents in portrait.

software assurance customers can create documents that free users can change orientation on, but only for a maximum of 4 documents per software assurance seat

# ? Nov 7, 2014 04:36

Notorious b.s.d.: Jan 25, 2003; by Reene

BobHoward posted:

in the dinosaur ages when i were a college kid sgi had an 18 wheeler painted that simultaneously awful and radical sgi purple with the sgi logo and everyhing and inside there were legendary weird blob shape purple sgi workstations running fucken awesome demos and they drove it to my school even tho we were not primarily a cs/eng school and it was p loving rad and tons of people toured it and got handed come-work-for-us literature. they also handed out swag like this letter opener i still have which looks liek the sgi truck

what im saying is sgi was fucken cool they didnt even have to hand out food. microsoft is not cool and has never been cool

thats my story hope u liked it

this truck was created about fifteen minutes before sgi went bankrupt (the first time)

# ? Nov 7, 2014 05:51

BobHoward: Feb 13, 2012; The only thing white people deserve is a bullet to their empty skull

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

this truck was created about fifteen minutes before sgi went bankrupt (the first time)

doesnt surprise me but at that frozen moment in time they were still amazingly cool especially to college kids

unix workstations were still exotic. unix workstations with world class 3d accelerators, the ones responsible for all the coolest sfx in the latest movies? holy shitballs

school actually had a lab with sgi machines in it but it was locked up so the plebs couldnt get in, i never took the right class to get in there

# ? Nov 7, 2014 06:08

poty: Jun 21, 2008; 虹はどこで終わるのですか？あなたの魂の中で、または地平線で?

microsoft 4 years or whatever after the 23-inch touchscreen still doesnt get the diff between a good ui and one that is shamefully uncomfortable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Iu7bUKKrJE

# ? Nov 7, 2014 08:41

moron izzard: Nov 17, 2006; Grimey Drawer

maybe you should wait a week before resorting to reposting month old microsoft research projects.

# ? Nov 7, 2014 08:55

Wheany: Mar 17, 2006; Spinya^{ha^{ha^haha}ha}ha_{ha_{ha_haha}ha}ha!; Doctor Rope

qirex posted:

so microsoft previewed the super cool ridley scott-produced halo tv series to the press in advance of its premiere on xbox video

production values of a made-for-tv-movie? wouldn't that be pretty good for a tv show?

# ? Nov 7, 2014 09:36

Fabricated: Apr 9, 2007; Living the Dream

when companies come here to bribe students they usually just buy a shitload of doughnuts for the campus snack shops to give out for free

# ? Nov 7, 2014 13:48

pseudorandom name: May 6, 2007

the weird thing is that Forward Unto Dawn was decent

I guess its easy to make a quality product when you're funding it via a gigantic marketing budget instead of funding it as the product itself

edit: $10 million for 90 minutes

# ? Nov 7, 2014 14:54

pagancow: Jan 15, 2001; Video Stymie

it's not a million dollars per finished minute like you would expect from a normal Ridley Scott film and that's why people are like "waaaa the graphics aren't good"

looks like the audience is full of pagancows on this one.

# ? Nov 7, 2014 15:13

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

poty posted:

microsoft 4 years or whatever after the 23-inch touchscreen still doesnt get the diff between a good ui and one that is shamefully uncomfortable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Iu7bUKKrJE

this is basically the trackpad text entry UI in my car, ported to a watch

nice "research"

# ? Nov 7, 2014 15:29

Main Paineframe: Oct 27, 2010

poty posted:

microsoft 4 years or whatever after the 23-inch touchscreen still doesnt get the diff between a good ui and one that is shamefully uncomfortable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Iu7bUKKrJE

windows 7 was the last decent ui microsoft did. it wasn't super great or anything, but I've been forced to use windows 8.1 lately and it's just so clunky and ugly by comparison. ballmer probably fired all the good ui people for disagreeing with metro

# ? Nov 7, 2014 17:13

Zam Wesell: Mar 22, 2009; [Zam is suddenly shot in the neck by a toxic dart; Anakin and Obi-Wan see a "rocket-man" take off and fly away, and Zam dies]

poty posted:

microsoft 4 years or whatever after the 23-inch touchscreen still doesnt get the diff between a good ui and one that is shamefully uncomfortable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Iu7bUKKrJE

literally getting angry irl

# ? Nov 7, 2014 17:54

Binary Badger: Oct 11, 2005; Trolling Link for a decade

http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/11/07/microsofts-own-office-apps-much-better-on-iphone-than-windows-phone-8

thanks satya you're a dude

http://valleywag.gawker.com/microsoft-ceo-tells-women-not-to-ask-for-a-raise-at-wom-1644473757

maybe only to other dudes

# ? Nov 7, 2014 19:19

Notorious b.s.d.: Jan 25, 2003; by Reene

Main Paineframe posted:

windows 98 was the last decent ui microsoft did. it wasn't super great or anything, but I've been forced to use windows 8.1 lately and it's just so clunky and ugly by comparison. ballmer probably fired all the good ui people for disagreeing with metro

# ? Nov 7, 2014 19:30

Wiggly Wayne DDS: Sep 11, 2010

Main Paineframe posted:

windows 7 was the last decent ui microsoft did. it wasn't super great or anything, but I've been forced to use windows 8.1 lately and it's just so clunky and ugly by comparison. ballmer probably fired all the good ui people for disagreeing with metro

# ? Nov 7, 2014 19:36

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# ? Nov 7, 2014 21:22

H5N1: Mar 8, 2005; heil satan

I can't believe how excited I am about the Jeb campaign!

H5N1 fucked around with this message at 23:54 on Oct 18, 2016

# ? Nov 7, 2014 21:30

hobbesmaster: Jan 28, 2008

H5N1 posted:

don't know what the hell i'll do with it tho.

ship the yostop

# ? Nov 7, 2014 21:51

PleasureKevin: Jan 2, 2011

i have heard nothing about the xbox one TV features since the announcement

# ? Nov 7, 2014 22:41

Blackula69: Apr 1, 2007; ＤＥＨＵＭＡＮＩＺＥＹＯＵＲＳＥＬＦ＆ＦＡＣＥＴＯＢＬＡＣＵＬＡ

PleasureKevin posted:

i have heard nothing about the xbox one TV features since the announcement

that's because they suck and/or don't work in your country

# ? Nov 7, 2014 22:43

univbee: Jun 3, 2004

PleasureKevin posted:

i have heard nothing about the xbox one TV features since the announcement

they released a USB-powered adapter for receiving a TV signal directly from an OTA antenna. They also region-locked it so it only works if you're located in specific parts of Europe/UK.

# ? Nov 7, 2014 22:44

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PleasureKevin: Jan 2, 2011

OK, now i've only heard hilarious yet sad things about the Xbox One TV features since announcement

# ? Nov 7, 2014 22:51

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