So sorry to hear it. The only thing I can do is offer my sincere condolences to John and his family. I hope they'll be okay.

Amazing talk. Thanks for the link, I really love these behind the scenes stories.

So I'm gonna go ahead and agree with Herc that Mad Max: Fury Road is on the same level as Die Hard. I think it has the same re-watchability. Everything about it works.

The only shot that didn't scream "PERFECTION" was the guitar one, which was too obviously CG. Otherwise, it was two hours of insane action, pacing, acting, and my God, what eye-candy. Not many movies can pull off that much saturation. This one is off the chart, and it looks incredible.

And to know pretty much everything is real... Holy shit. I'm going to need a 10-hour documentary of this. How they didn't destroy dozens of cameras filming this, I'd like to know.

PS: fuck theaters who think it's good idea to have the sound too loud for every single movie ever, but when it's Mad Max, the one movie that NEEDS to be too loud, it's too quiet.

I know. Doesn't mean EU laws don't exist, they just don't apply to you 

I don't know whether that changes anything to Canon, though. The 30-second limitation seems worldwide.

Thank God we have a banana for scale.

Two former students from my school are now music video directors. They just released the video they made for french artist Martin Mey:

Really liked it.

Subforums are cool. You could have a general "Community activity" category, with all the ongoing activities as its subforums. If an activity ceases to be a thing, its subforum can go - doesn't have to be deleted, it can be archived in an "Archives" category. I might be wrong, but moving subforums around probably isn't a pain in the ass with forum systems such as PunBB.

Eluvium is a guy who makes ambient music. He mixes different approaches to it, but every once in a while, he just goes with a simple piano track. And this particular one, I can't get enough of. If I want to listen to something soothing that makes me forget about everything, I'll go straight with Caroling. It's so simple, and yet it's one of the most beautiful piano pieces I've ever heard.

Work with a camera. The amount of detail you need will solely depend on what you see, and you'll decide whether you need to add detail on the model or if bump and specular maps will do (and they do more often than you'd think).

I'm guessing the simplification they had to do from the books to the TV show leads to this randomness. The characters still do what they have to do, but we haven't spent 50 pages understanding why they would do it.

Personally, I used to like the show a lot despite the boob time and other money-driven nonsense... and then I got progressively bored with it. The production value is enormous, the acting is just fine... but the directing is dull. When you've read the books, and thus lose the cliffhangery nature of almost everything's that's happening, not much is left. Most of the important spoilery scenes left me with "Oh, ok well that happened". This show just doesn't even try to keep me on the edge of my seat. It goes from one scene to another without much feeling.

I realize also that the universe they built in the show itself has this dullness. The books are gritty, but feel way more fantastical in nature. I really want to hear about old Valyria and the Targaryen lineage from the novels. The TV show version would be like reading about Charlemagne in some history book. Informative, but not very magical.

I'll probably keep watching it, if only for the fact that it looks gorgeous most of the time. That, and characters such as Tyrion I really like to see on screen. Since the show is gradually deviating from the books, it might spark some new interest, but I'd really appreciate it if they actually tried to convince me that what's happening is incredible.