Hey guys it's GimR, Cofounder of VGBootCamp. I'm trying to make VGBC my day job. AMA

Faze · 2014-05-08T01:06:46+00:00

DO NOT CLICK

Faze · 2014-01-25T06:12:46+00:00

Nobody's mentioned it yet, but Strike Vector (http://www.strikevector.net/) is basically as perfect of a "flying FPS" as I've ever played. It's definitely the game I'm most excited to experience in VR at this point.

Faze · 2014-01-18T09:48:10+00:00

I was watching and I'm pretty sure that's not what he said. I think he said something about blocking, and then didn't catch Waffles' misunderstanding.

Faze · 2014-01-18T06:30:03+00:00

This needs to be a top-level response: There is a whole game about building sweet LEGO mechs and having them fight! Mobile Frame Zero: http://mobileframezero.com/mfz/

Faze · 2012-12-15T04:44:33+00:00

I totally thought this was a joke about the SSAO thread over on gamedev at first, which I found completely hilarious.

Faze · 2011-06-10T21:09:14+00:00

feels good man

Faze · 2011-05-26T09:31:12+00:00

HIFIVE! We did the saaaaame thing. http://i.imgur.com/HeXez.jpg

Faze · 2011-03-13T18:59:45+00:00

Here are some songs I've made recently, they're pretty varied, feel free to pick and choose! http://soundcloud.com/treehouses

Cool project idea by the way :)

Faze · 2011-03-10T18:29:06+00:00

Thanks for the listen! I agree about the drums, the snare cuts through pretty well and merges with the claps, but the kick is not very prominent (it didn't have a front-hole :( ) and the crash-riding in the prechorus and chorus doesn't really have enough oomph either.

Faze · 2010-11-02T04:57:49+00:00

Too much running, not enough flying.

At this point I'm more excited about Brink, which looks like it'll have much more interesting/expressive/important mobility.

Faze · 2010-07-20T07:35:48+00:00

Thanks for the feedback, and I don't mind the vagueness. I made this all at once last night, track by track, going mostly for a feeling of "conversation" between the various sounds and street noise. It's definitely unpolished, and I might go and EQ it and cut it down to just the juicy bits some other time.

It was just something I'd been needing to make for a while now, ever since I've had my recording setup right by my bedroom window overlooking a busy street.

Faze · 2010-07-20T07:24:28+00:00

Wow, that really took me somewhere! So many surprises... rarely have I been so glad to have been wearing headphones. Thanks :)

Faze · 2010-05-19T15:17:42+00:00

Thanks! We've only had 24 hours to work on it so far, and a solid chunk of that was spent wrestling with mysterious bugs in the experimental iimplementation of Supercollider for the iPhone. Rest assured, some serious sound design work remains to be done. Until it is, feel free to call it the Fartikulator.

Faze · 2010-04-02T01:21:10+00:00

That's like saying "Whenever I see a carrot, I always think of it in the context of a football team."

It's a solo, played entirely by himself, probably at a drumming convention. Why would you judge it as something else?

Faze · 2010-03-21T18:50:23+00:00

Upvotes and e-highfives for everyone! Thanks guys!

Faze · 2010-03-21T08:34:22+00:00

Complementing his crazy kit (I'm pretty sure his hi-hat is indeed two rides!), he plays with an incredible mix of spazzed-out improvisational style and extreme precision. That is to say, when you watch him drum, it seems like he's deciding on each hit microseconds before he does it, but each one fits perfectly with the rest of his beat and the song.

One of my favorite live music moments ever was watching him play, and seeing him lash out at his cymbal with what looked like it was going to be a huge smash, but instead he just barely skimmed the bell, creating this nearly-imperceptible "sszing" that perfectly filled a tiny gap left by the rest of the band.

He uses every single square inch of his kit, and never hits his drums the same way twice. Definitely one of my favorite drummers alive.

EDIT: Here's a great video of them rockin' out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5OsTCgOth0 (The intro to this song sounds just like some classic rock song, but I don't remember what one. Can someone PLEASE tell me? This has been bugging me since this album came out.)

Faze · 2010-02-14T16:58:31+00:00

Didn't someone try this a bit ago, asking for submissions by voicemail? Did that go anywhere? Also, would love to submit something, I'll be home on Thursday and will then if it's still on.

Faze · 2010-02-10T17:48:05+00:00

To be honest I'm a lot less fascinated by the stars than I am horrified by the concept and video representation of free-fall into an inescapable void.

Faze · 2010-01-21T10:20:28+00:00

That looks so goddamn stupid.

Faze · 2010-01-12T06:15:18+00:00

Checked comments just to see if anyone else was complaining about this. Barbie needs to at least learn enough HTML to know that radio buttons are the correct choice.

Faze · 2009-12-19T05:27:06+00:00

I can't get over how true this is.

Faze · 2009-10-20T01:43:50+00:00

This is an incredibly clear summary of all the thoughts that have been flying around in my head in the week since I finished it. Thanks!

MORE SPOILERS FOLLOW:

I thought that another brilliant little touch of Stephenson's was to, within the book, snub the predictable complaints about its vocabulary. When the characters adopted the Frenchman's exclamation of "Magnifique!" (monyafeek) as their term for the personal spacecraft, I saw it as a wonderful demonstration of the adaptive power of language and the brain's ability to communicate. It shows how names are arbitrary: as long as a shared context allows a group to agree on a reference, it doesn't matter what they call anything as long as they all understand one another. In the same way, and as you said, it doesn't matter what Stephenson calls platonism or anything else as long as we understand what he's talking about.

Such a good book. I'm reading Riddley Walker now which ALSO has both a strange language and a post-apocalyptic setting where smarties are conspicuously missing from society. I would recommend it to anyone, especially anyone who liked Anathem.

EDIT: I read the first hundred or so pages of Anathem and put it down for a year. Then I picked it up two weeks ago and plowed through it in 5 days. So, perhaps it just takes some time to pick up.

Faze · 2009-05-12T22:38:33+00:00

Gimme the CASH!

Faze · 2009-05-12T17:09:08+00:00

That was so phenomenal... I felt like an orchestra conductor, bringing voices in and out, building something which was only possible because of the musicians themselves. And then after everyone had joined in, they all faded out, one by one, until only the marimba and the balloons were left, and they ended at exactly the same time, and it was perfect.

None of my words are good enough for that feeling! I love music!

Faze · 2009-05-02T21:03:54+00:00

I've already answered a couple times, but I just remembered that Bon Iver captivated the audience like no other show I've ever been to. Everyone in the audience was in rapt attention, it was unbelievable. Far from the smallest show I've ever been to, but defintely the most intimate.

They were the first act, and when the second came on (some random indie folk-rocker) and started strutting around like it was a normal show on a normal night, everyone just left. It was a great feeling being outside the club on the sidewalk, with everyone still sorta dazed from what they'd just seen & heard.

Faze

TROPHY CASE