Heal XRT
Hurt FXO plenty

This is the future for pretty much every creative artist.

Ignore record companies, let publishers go bankrupt, cut the middle man, forget mega-high production values and invest in content and soul, work your ass off and share it for free and let people pay what they feel is worth it - and if they like it - ask them to share your vision to fund your next project.

Mandatory B-grade meme dump.

Someone in the Ferrari engineering team.

Oh dear lord let the Mclaren be the fastest so the rubbish stepped noses are killed.

Looks like they didn't find the Lego part they were looking for.

Quote from DeKo :

That will only work against noobs, most pilots will fly about with lock all day without deploying flares or ECM, only once a missile is launched do the flares get used, then they reload so fast that by the time another missile is launched they have flares again. Heli's are even worse considering both pilot and gunner can have flares. The only thing that can take out air is a jav/SOFLAM combo or a decent Mobile AA.

This. You do more damage by spamming Q and spotting them for friendly jets to chew.

Quote from Silverracer :

Love the doggies!

Couple my pics from this autumn...

Ooooo that silhouetted trees is great. Maybe a bit too tight framing on the ground but great mood. And Don's stuff is always perfect. (How annoying is that!)

Here's some random wankery from December and so on.





He's a Scottish artisan living in Tampere. Super cool guy.

Quote from MataGyula :

Sometimes I feel offended by the harsh auto-taunts. All i want to do is ask for a lift nicely, not "COULD SOMEBODY GET ME THE **** OUT OF HERE?!"
or "GIMME SOME ****ING BACKUP!"
Where are the stone cold mercenaries with cool taunts?

Exactly. I know we're all stressed out in the war but it's no excuse to be rude.

If I spot a dude a mile away fixing a tank, I don't usually go full retard and yell (to no one in particular) 'THERE'Z AN ****** ENEMY SOLDAR OVER DAR!'. Or even more annoying when I'm trying to stay hidden, a stray bullet landing nearby launches my dude into a mega aspergers swear overload and blows me cover.

Anyone else annoyed that most of the servers nowadays run some random dick rules like "no shotguns", "no swearing" (though the AUTOMATIC TAUNTS SWEAR LIKE SAILORS) or "don't use camouflage unless your first name is Frank" or some stupid crap along those lines.

Sure thing no-one's forcing anyone to play on those servers but it's just stupid to jump through several servers to find a vanilla version not infested with dumbass admins.

"Total and utter bullshit."

Well, now that the cat's out of the bag, I'm sad to say that Nikon D4 looks like a complete disaster. I don't care if the D4 destroys the 1Dx on the field and in the tests (Canon's tendency to oversweeten spec sheets is hilarious/tragic) but the bag of hurt D4 brings to the new owner kills it for me.

AE-lock button has disappeared for no reason.

One new card slot and one legacy card slot (XQD whatever and CF) - INSANELY STUPID MOVE DEAR GOD NIKON WTF? Two different cards? Seriously? After D3, D3s and D3X? I'm praying they'll soon offer a twin-XQD-slotted version and stop delivering this kind of half-assed compromises on their cutting-edge flagship model.

New battery holds something like 50 % less shots (4000+ shots on D3/D3s/D700 vs 2000+ on D4). What-in-the-hell? And they use different chargers? Sooooo if you're using D3-series or D700 as backup, you have to carry two kinds of batteries and two kinds of chargers. Total bullsh*t move Nikon. Not cool.

Nothing interesting on the stills front. Just movie features pasted on. And looking at the 'WHY" (nice choice for title for all the wrong reasons) video on Vimeo looks like mushed crap compared to RED Scarlet's 3K or 4K.

Nice going Nikon. What on earth were you thinking. 4 years for this. Jesus.

Sincerely,

Mikko Henrik Huotari,
Nikon user 4 life

*D3s added to Ebay watch list

Last edited by spankmeyer, Mon, 9 Jan 2012 20:31.

Quote from BigPeBe :

I am a paying customer for my ISP and the thing I am paying for is internet connection. Not some kind of a package of accessible URLs.

This.

And personally I could not care less about what happens to Piratebay but if the URL embargo holds, then we're on a really slippery slope and that is what worries me.

As a precursor, Finland isn't exactly setting the world on fire what comes to respecting human rights.

"Finland has received more judgments handed down by the European Court of Human Rights than the rest of the Nordic countries together over the past 15 years."

What are levels?

I just run around, die, kill, get awarded with stuff that's mostly useless as my comp can't handle scopes so I gotta nade my way through.

Quote from majod :

the last one looks like she's reaching for an arrow (i hope its a girl lol). like that one

Too much Skyrim perhaps?

Quote from Chrisuu01 :

I love that shot by the water.

I am thinking of getting myself a Nikon D70 as a 2nd set since I'm currently using a Minolta.
Not that the Minolta is a bad camera its just slow as f*ck.
And I cant seem to keep my hand super still during long exposure shot does anyone have tricks for this?

Thanks! If you are talking about shutter speeds below 1/20 then yes, a decent tripod and a decent head (together bare minimum at around 200 €, think Manfrotto, Benro, etc. or prepare to spend more after noob tax by first buying cheap & crap and end up buying what you should have in the first place) will help but you should first learn good shoot discipline to get the maximum out of your support gear.

Practicing proper hand holding shooting technique will massively improve your keeper rate when shooting at risky shutter speeds.

Some more pic dumpeth.

I've gotsa couple from past months.







Older stuff from summer (but with chicks).

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

Thanks guys.

Next time I really need to stop it down a bit more. Even the D700's magical AF system can't keep up at f/2.8 or f/4. I guess that's why the pros say "f/8 and forget it."

I always thought old-timer journos said it was 'f8 and be there.'

Who is challenging who and where can I sign up?

Alright, bought this from Steam Xmas Sale last night. Managed to crank a couple of hours and... is this it?

Not impressed by the characters, dialogue (voice acting is mostly terrible) and graphics look a shoddy low-res port even after turning on land and tree self-shadowing. Combat is shallow and AI is stupid on expert difficulty. Mind you I never played Oblivion so I don't know if I'd need it as precursor to enjoy Skyrim but in my opinion Witcher 2 simply destroys Skyrim on nearly all aspects.

ACCIDENTALLY THE WHOLE INTRO MUSIC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KMiH4x7WTk

Little did people know that in 1996 while Falcon 4.0 was still a wet spot on a sheet after a curiously heavy drinking the night before, the Finns already had a massive multiplayer super realistic military flight simulator running.

Co-developed with the state of the art Finnish Air Force to accurately simulate future airplane warfare ah the hell just watch the video

Quote from BigPeBe :

Haha didn't expect to see a gif from an awesome Finnish sketch show on international forum.

aroX123 gets a LFSforum Gold Membership for that post.

Quote from Uke :

Well, imo the lighting in b2k is better than in vanilla, no blue tint all over the place.

Problem?

Quote from anttt69 :

Is it me or do the Bf2 levels look a bit tacky & also the colour is all f&^%d up.
They seem rushed & also the levels of destruction vary. Tank machine gun @ karkand can destroy concrete walls?? Not sure what they are meant to be like but the lighting or whatever it is, kinda spoils it.

Anyone else notice that?

Weeelll I'd say BF3 has just a stylized look. I'd assume .50cal machine gun would tear up a concrete wall rather fast actually if we are talking about French/Iraq construction and housing standards...

"150, fast, over a crest, jump, don't cut, wait was that dude with dick in his hand on a field, NO DON'T HAIRPI - - -"

Quote from NSX_FReeDoM :

I have been playing for like two weeks or so and i have only had like maybe two close games. Most of the games consists of one team spawn raping and another team of complete idiots.

Pretty much true.

I remember only couple of matches that 'turned around' dramatically and then this one.

Quote from Chrisuu01 :

I don't know what Creative Suite version your using but dam that was dumb of you to say.
Since in CS5 as well as CS5,5 you can easily mirror the layer you are currently working in.

And that is from me a creative Desktop Publisher who has done work for companies like: NatGeo, Discovery and Hunkemoler.
While NatGeo and Hunkemoler are companies I still hire my services to.

Although I'll agree with the fact that it is far from accurate, but that is why we have Illustrator and Indesign.
So long story short want perfect high quality logos circles rainbows or just arty stuff use Illustrator!

Vector for the WIN!!

Well, duh, I know there's transformation tools, rotation and the crap but I now for a fact that PS is mostly unable to do transformations, mirroring and rotation with pixel perfect aliasation. Not sure if you ever tried to do pixel perfect design, for, say iOS UI but it's frankly a pain in the ass with shoddy Adobe software.

I eat junior designer for breakfast and crap out smart objects daily so your out of your depth boy.

Alrite! Had a couple of rounds in with B2K. Thoughts?

RAPEFEST!

The vehicles are stupidly overpowered in the new maps.