Posts Tagged ‘Rants’
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Nov 19, 2008
WALL·E vs. Taxi Driver
Posted in Animation, CGI & Rendering, Films, Rants, Reports, Reviews
I have much time on my hands in Berlin now so I’ve been to the movies. I watched two classics in a charming little theater in the Kastanienallee, Delicatessen and Taxi Driver and two current Hollywood blockbusters in the UCI Colosseum multiplex theater, WALL·E and Burn After Reading. I will not talk so much about the films themselves because that has already been done by people way more proficient than me. No, I will focus on my experiences around and inspired by the movies. With no spoilers, as usual. -
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Nov 01, 2008
Cloudy Sky
Posted in Dear Diary, Games, Rants, Video
I needed to reward myself and soothe my jangled nerves from all the stress I had. So I purchased S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Clear Sky in advance. And today was the great day to set it up and stalk through the Zone once again. Oh, I love radiation!EDIT: See below for some new insights about the critical start-up bug. Why me?!
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Oct 24, 2008
Autodesk swallows Softimage
Posted in Compositing, Random Thoughts, Rants
…and we all are worried and upset. Just look at that and tell me it doesn’t look scary. Maya, any former *discreet products such as flame, smoke, inferno, combustion, further 3dsmax and so on all come from Autodesk who will become the Adobe of post production. So you either buy from Autodesk or you switch to charted accountancy.
I guess they will become what Electronic Arts is in games: Every year a new update of the same old shit with not more than one new feature but for the same price as the previous version. Not to mention cash-cowing with add-ons. So watch out for Avid 2009, 3dsmax 2010, Combustion: Tournament and the Maya Add-On Maya: Masters of Mayhem.
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Sep 01, 2008
Alone in the Dark
Posted in Dear Diary, Games, Reviews, Video
A premiere here on the Promenade Blog: my first video post! And it’s a rant about the new Alone in the Dark by Eden Games. So if you can stand my voice and my thick accent when talking English then feel free to click the play button. If you prefer to read and click some links: No problemo, what is said can be read here as well. A weekend well spent…
Enjoy!DISCLAIMER: No, I don’t hate the game, in fact it’s quite entertaining. But I needed to vent my anger that I am unable to handle the game controls well. And I die a lot! -
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Aug 29, 2008
The Dark Knight
Posted in Dear Diary, Films, Rants, Reports, Reviews
I just came home from watching “The Dark Knight” in the UCI Colosseum in Berlin and I have to say: What a bunchload of crap! Really? No, of course not! This movie actually seems to me as one of the best super hero movies there can be — with a sophisticated story off the beaten tracks while staying true with the fans. Read on.
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Jun 24, 2008
DVCPRO-HD-MXF-QT-MOV-FCUK!
Posted in Computing, Rants, Reports, Technology, Video
Working on bigger projects with people in remote places always is a hassle. Today 1 I received the long anticipated hard disk with the blue screen shots I should be working on. I popped it into the USB port but Windows thought the device was damaged and suggested to replace it. Luckily I remembered that the person who sent me the disk was a Mac user so I tried connecting the device on some Mac and it worked. Then my data-odyssey began…
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Mar 14, 2008
The max_result_rect error in After Effects
Posted in Computing, Rants, Vista Issues
Just wanted to let you know: After Effects CS3 is bitchy, unstable and has a bad performance: It crashes suddenly and with no reason, while it stays in RAM and on screen forever when you quit. And it produces errors with gray-scale and/or CMYK PNGs. - No comments Jan 12, 2008 Eat my shorts! Posted in Computing, Games, Rants, Retro, Reviews
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Dec 20, 2007
Neat!
Posted in Computing, Rants, Technology
“Neat!” — that was the first thing that escaped my mouth after installing
the Second Beta of Mozilla’s Firefox 3. In fact it’s nothing so very special but the new Firefox features one little detail that I’ve been waiting for since my first contact with web-browsers about twelve years ago…
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Nov 21, 2007
An Early-Adopter’s Odyssey
Posted in Computing, Dear Diary, Rants, Technology, Video, Vista Issues
Yesterday my HD-DVD drive arrived from Alternate. Bulk version, eighty bucks (Euros), no fancy-schmancy stuff attached like Pet-Print-Studio or crap like that. No, just plugged in and it works. Perfect! But I had no HD-DVD media at the time, so I thought I just go to the mall and get one. That’s when my odyssey started… yes, another one.
