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Bradley Cooper and Ryan Reynolds Are Moving to San Francisco Together

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:29 +0000

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And they’re bringing two older men with them. also today: 3D war movies are the most reverential of 3D movies, some funny Emmys reporting, and that SNL news that’s been all over.

Bradley Cooper and Ryan Reynolds — who are essentially the same person, just one is cold (Reynolds) and one is heat (Bradley Cooper) — have signed up to star in an action picture about two men living in San Francisco. Yes. It’s like Full House, only less kinky. Well, actually it might be kinda kinky. They team up with old men! It’s called Tender Loins. Well, that’s just my working title. It’s actually about cops partnering with their dads, retired cops, to stop crimes. It’s written by Sheldon Turner, who wrote Up in the Air. Aha. Isn’t that exactly what you thought when watching Up in the Air? “This is wistful and slick. I’d like to see a wistful and slick action movie from this guy.” That’s usually what I think. Well, I think that after I think “I’d like to see a wistful and slick gay erotic San Francisco adventure from this guy.” [THR]

Warner Bros. has purchased a movie pitch from Bruce McKenna (who did The Pacific) about the famous Battle of Midway, the immense WWII naval and air battle that helped turn the tide of the Pacific campaign. It killed 2,300 people and whatnot, but really what’s important about this movie is that it’s going to be in 3D!!!! Isn’t that great, greatest generation?? your shit is now gonna be in the third dimension. the carnage of war is much carnageier when it’s In your Face. plus, funny glasses are really the best way to gravely commemorate anything. Wootz. [Variety]

John Woo (Windtalkers: the Legend of Adam Beach’s Career) is doing his own WWII aviation picture, this one called Flying Tigers, about the 14th Air Force teaming up with a buncha Chinese pilots to take on the soldiers of the Rising Sun. the whole thing is going to be in IMAX because, again, the best way to honor the troops and airmen is through big flashing in-ya-face imagery. In reality, the only military types that should be in your face are seamen. [Deadline]

This is old news, but we missed it on Friday and now it’s everywhere so here it is. Saturday Night Live has found three new cast members, one girl and two boys. They are Paul Brittain, Taran Killam, and Vanessa Bayer. Brittain and Bayer are Chicago comedy nerds, while Killam has been hoofing it out in LA for a while, doing things with bill “Srubbles” Lawrence. Killam was supposed to be in a show this fall, the congressional sitcom Freshmen, but it didn’t kept picked up. So that’s that. three new white folks to make ya chuckle as you doze on the couch and spill wine on your pants. or as you watch it DVR’d the next day, dozing and spilling cheese sauce on your pants. have you guys figured out that when I say “you”, I’m talking about ME? You haven’t? OK, good. I’m talking about you. [Comic's Comic]

Aha! more 3D! this time it sorrrt of makes more sense, given that it’s a kids movie. The Nutcracker 3D has found a distributor, so it will be Russian-dancing into a theater near you this Thanksgiving. Nathan Lane plays Uncle Albert, so, y’know, run don’t walk. plus there’s Elle Fanning and the whole thing was shot on location in Budapest. But that’s not the best news. the best news is: Tim Rice wrote additional songs for the damn thing, as a supplement to the Tchaikovsky music. Yes! A whole thing based around a piece of music apparently doesn’t have enough music, so bring in the Lion King guy. I’m really excited for “Hakuna Ma Walnuts” and “Can You Feel the Plum Sugar Tonight?”. They’re going to be marvelous. [Deadline]

Haha, here’s an awkward, sad tidbit from Emmys Ground Zero. Apparently NBC was broadcasting their red carpet coverage in the actual theater, so toward the end when they started talking about dress “misses”, a lot of the people with bad dresses were in the theater already, watching. Ha ha! that is such a chin-on-hand, awwww shucks kind of sad thing. “Awww fiddletoots. They doesn’t like mah potater sack.” Wump wump. “Billy Bush don’t like me fancyslacks. Cinnamon and sugarsnaps.” Nicely done, Emmys producers. way to just make people feel bad for the most important reason ever, fashion. It’s one thing to talk about it when they’re not around, but to just be straight up “Here, sit and watch us criticize you,” is terrific. “Ohhh fingernubs. Nate Berkus sure didn’t take to mah stompin’ gown. Guess I’d better just go shuck wheat.” [The Wrap]

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Shooting for Realism: How Accurate are Video-Game Weapons?

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:00:44 +0000

In real life, people rarely want to get into a firefight. But in many video games, particularly military-themed first-person shooters (FPS) like the just-released Rainbow six Vegas 2, you can’t wait to step into the line of fire. After all, you’re an elite commando, and there’s no way not to fight–no button to press to call your nervous wreck of a wife or go hang out with the kids. It doesn’t matter how many bullets you take while gunning down whole platoons of terrorists and mercenaries, because this is red-blooded escapism at its geekiest. So shut up and starting shooting guys.

But unlike sci-fi FPS games such as Halo or Doom, military shooters have a tradition of so-called realism. Most of the in-game weapons are available now–or at least loosely based on designs that could eventually reach the likes of Iraq and Afghanistan. in other words, as optimistic as game developers might be about a high-tech replacement for the M-16 assault rifle, there are no plasma rifles or rail guns in your arsenal. Firefights look and sound like something out of Blackhawk Down, with that unnerving, staccato crackle of modern-day warfare. and the damage inflicted feels more accurate, too: in games like Call of Duty 4 or Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter, most enemies are vulnerable to a single burst, and a few incoming rounds can kill you easily. So as this successful genre continues to deliver best-selling titles, will increasingly powerful PCs and game consoles allow military shooters to become more realistic than ever?

If Rainbow six Vegas 2 is any indication, the answer is a big, fat “sort of.” The hugely anticipated sequel, which came out last week, has a relatively standard techno-thriller story line. It’s a gung-ho fantasy of special-ops heroism, complete with weapons of mass destruction and a seemingly endless supply of well-equipped bad guys. Like the plot, the gameplay for RSV2 picks up where its predecessor left off, as players navigate an array of ambushes and hostage situations in Las Vegas and Mexico. Cover is still crucial to most engagements, and squad-level tactics (i.e., when to use smoke grenades) will usually prevail over run-and-gun action-hero stunts. Aside from a new “sprint” button, little has changed in couch-potato combat here. But when it comes to the guns, the developers seem to have pushed the Tom Clancy series closer to the battlefield.

Or does it just seem that way? in this installment, bullets can penetrate a variety of materials. this isn’t an industry first–in Call of Duty 4, for example, bullets can veer off into different trajectories. But according to Philippe Theiren, an RSV2 designer at Ubisoft Montreal and the team’s self-described “gun guy,” bullet penetration now takes into account incredibly fine details, like whether the target is wearing leather or cloth. “It’s actually an excessively complex formula,” Theiren says. “If someone shoots through a plant, then a car door, then it hits Level 3 body armor, all of that effects the force of the round.” Actual ballistic data associated with the guns in RSV2, then, determine whether you can fire a burst through a wooden table and take someone out.

Except, of course, when the developers feel the need to cheat. All of the guns in RSV2 start out extremely accurate, based on factory stats and more, before game balance and player expectations come into play. A shotgun firing buckshot, for example, has significantly more penetration in RSV2 than it should. Why? “People associate shotguns with powerful, close-range weapons,” Theiren says. So a shotgun blast will punch through walls and armor just fine, even though buckshot is known for its lack of penetration in the real world.

“I take these weapons, and look at what defines them, or what people think defines them,” Theiren explains. “For an Uzi, people think it fires lots of bullets, and it’s really inaccurate.” That, he knows, has nothing to do with reality–if anything, Uzis are considered some of the most reliable and accurate submachine guns around. But the 80s (and Miami Vice in particular) offered us the Uzi as a low-life villain’s weapon, spit-fire and out-of-control. “So I make it fire faster than it should. It’s about taking the personality of a weapon, and making it shine in the game,” Theiren says.

With 200 unique variables for each weapon, including the damage it inflicts at various ranges, how fast it reloads and when bullets tend to start dropping off, a gun in RSV2 could perform precisely like the real thing. “These consoles are so powerful, when you fire a bullet we could factor all of it in: windfall, range, everything about the history of that specific weapon, friction values for the barrel, how many times it’s been fired since it was last cleaned,” says Theiren. “We could make it as anally realistic as possible. But we’re not trying to make a live simulator.”

Full-on simulation, to some extent, is the job of America’s Army (AA). The incredibly popular PC game (and not so successful console port) is officially sanctioned by the United States Army, and the PC editions are available for download at no cost. in this unapologetic recruiting tool, you spend time qualifying with individual weapons on the firing range, take part in nonlethal war games, and get chewed out for so much as wandering a few yards away from your unit. Adhering to realism is something of a sticking point for AA, since the last thing the Army wants to do is to present modern warfare as a series of high-octane action-movie scenes.

With consistent access to actual weapon systems and insight from current and former soldiers, you would think that AA‘s guns would come out 100 percent accurate. “We can actually implement many more characteristics than the game-play Frames Per second can handle,” notes AA executive producer Phil Bossant. “This means we need to either pick and choose carefully which particular characteristics are meaningful to the game play and environment–or come up with an average estimated compensation.”

In other words, these are two completely different versions of the same story. in Rainbow six Vegas 2, the reason for scaling back on realism isn’t the hardware, but the drive to make guns feel like the ones we’ve seen in movies. and in America’s Army, the limitation is hardware, since accuracy is a key goal for the development team. Whatever role the hardware is playing, it’s safe to say that the standard for realism in military shooters is hewing closer to the Rainbow Six school of play than that of America’s Army.

When you’re hit in nearly any war-themed FPS, whether its Call of Duty 4 or Ghost Recon, surviving means finding cover, then jumping back into the fight. this regenerative health system has no bearing on the story line or on reality. in America’s Army, injuries don’t evaporate into the ether, but subsequent hits are more likely to kill you. It could be more punishing and grisly, but recruiting tools shouldn’t necessarily be complete buzzkills. While Bossant says that AA 3.0, which should be out this year, will include even more detailed mechanics for medical treatment, the rest of the military shooters aren’t likely to follow suit. “The majority of the community wants to get back in the action,” says Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling, the community manager for Call of Duty 4. “We still favor gameplay and fun value over making it 100 percent realistic.”

The dev team for Call of Duty 4 also starts out with hyper-realistic weapons, then tweaks them for balance and personality. The AK-47 might start out with significantly more recoil than the M-16, which is then gradually dialed down to more manageable levels. Realism, in other words, is almost always about the flavor of the game, and it’s as subjective as any element of genre. Bowling claims that all of the gunshots in Call of Duty 4 are based on unique audio recordings, while Theiren insists there wasn’t enough room on a DVD to avoid repeating some sound effects in Rainbow Six. So why do the rifles sound so much more blistering in the RSV2 audio mix? “There’s more echo,” he says. “When you’re firing outside, there’s a much nicer sound.”

By ramping up that rolling, reverberating roar that some of the larger-caliber guns produce in outdoor environments, the weapons in this game feel more realistic than their counterparts in Call of Duty 4. as for how much damage that same assault rifle dishes out in both games, or whether you can turn a corner and fire it more accurately than a larger weapon, the realism quotient is the same. If it feels like the real thing, game on. If not, there’s a free game that might be a little slower-paced, but a little closer to reality. and if none of this is real enough, you can even visit a virtual recruiting station in America’s Army to find out how to sign up for the real real thing. A word of warning: Regenerative health is definitely not part of that equation.

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The 27th Vegan Drinks was held on Thursday, July 29th, and although I wasn’t in attendance (I was taking the NJ bar exam instead), you all still managed to have an amazing time. (Kudos to Patrick of the Humane Society of the United States for acting as the substitute MC for the evening!)

Craig and Michelle from Terri brought cupcakes,
Thanksgiving, as well as bacon and cheese sandwiches, AND quesadillas. thank you so much, Team Terri! (Friends, if you have yet to visit Terri, write yourself a note to go there tomorrow. Get a Butterfinger milkshake. It will make you forget Day 1 of the NY bar exam in record time. Promise.)

Folks who lined up to make “Shout Outs” included: Matt of Mercy For Animals (MFA), who encouraged the crowd to volunteer with MFA to help promote veganism in one of its upcoming leafleting events; Stevie from Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary (WFAS) reminded everyone to volunteer (year-round!) and attend WFAS’s upcoming events while the farm is open for tours (until October!); Ethan of Sea Shepherd talked about the new NYC chapter and its Monday, August 9th benefit to rescue animals affected by the Gulf oil spill, S’more Protection for the Oceans (buy your tickets before it sells out!); political prisoner support collective NYC Anarchist Black Cross invited everyone to Running Down the Walls 2010, a 5K run/walk/jog on August 7th; and, Brooke from Mama Earth Rocks! Earth Friendly Catering plugged her catering and personal chef services.

If you would like to get in touch with any of the folks mentioned above, please email info@vegandrinks.org.

The next Vegan Drinks NYC is Thursday, August 26th at Angels & Kings Bar from 7pm to 9pm. Get on our mailing list!

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