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joe macclennan

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gioua said:
one of the weddings I did... I loved the soft flow of this shot



This photo was turned into a 4x8 foot banner promoting local adoptions.. I volunteered to help the local court house with their adoptions month. to this day it is still shown each sept-dec



SIS in law + niece, this was a candid moment and one of mine and their favs
pic used in the adoptions pic as well






hide and seek with my Son



my kids... who at one point......... LOVED dad and his camera.. now they run from us.

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you have a wonderful eye g. You should be proud of your skills.
Your kids are adorable.



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This one is my favorite sunni.
 
Orithil

Orithil

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That road leads to my old house, where my mom died, and the rat is Keir, my pet rat that got cancer and was put to sleep. The feels.
 
Padawanbater2

Padawanbater2

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That game is getting a lot of recognition, I've seen a few walkthroughs of different chapters and the gameplay and story definitely deliver, the graphics meet today's next generation standards and weapons and abilities look like a lot of fun. I've never played a Bioshock game before, but they look totally original. It's good to see a game like this garner so much success.
 
Orithil

Orithil

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Padawanbater2 said:
That game is getting a lot of recognition, I've seen a few walkthroughs of different chapters and the gameplay and story definitely deliver, the graphics meet today's next generation standards and weapons and abilities look like a lot of fun. I've never played a Bioshock game before, but they look totally original. It's good to see a game like this garner so much success.
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Ehhhh, games are like anything else in life, it all depends on personal taste. So many people rave about bioshock for the same reason people rave about CoD or Battlefield...it's their thing. People who wouldn't rave about them, tend to just not buy them...because it's not their thing.
 
dankdalia

dankdalia

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Please play the first two before you play infinite. I'm getting upset because so many people skipped over the first two. That's just WRONG. Everyone needs to experience all three. But yes it deserves the recognition it is getting. The best game I have played in a while.
 
Padawanbater2

Padawanbater2

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Bioshock looks great for the story, Battlefield is great for the gameplay, and COD for the multiplayer, albeit to a somewhat specific demographic, but still..

I'm just glad games today are being pushed to the limits and the only bottleneck in the pipeline is imagination! When I was a kid, the technology was the bottleneck, today, it's limitless! 5-10 years from now, we'll likely see these same types of games in the virtual world, experiencing them in immersive 3D technology! I had a random vision the other day of attaching small myst and air type sensors to replicate walking through a waterfall or your dragon landing down next to you or something, that's the future, give it 10 years!
 
Orithil

Orithil

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Padawanbater2 said:
Bioshock looks great for the story, Battlefield is great for the gameplay, and COD for the multiplayer, albeit to a somewhat specific demographic, but still..

I'm just glad games today are being pushed to the limits and the only bottleneck in the pipeline is imagination! When I was a kid, the technology was the bottleneck, today, it's limitless! 5-10 years from now, we'll likely see these same types of games in the virtual world, experiencing them in immersive 3D technology! I had a random vision the other day of attaching small myst and air type sensors to replicate walking through a waterfall or your dragon landing down next to you or something, that's the future, give it 10 years!
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And this goes back to technology going too far. There are so many real world experiences to have, but with the limitations constantly being drawn tighter and tighter around us, we feel we have no choice but to seek experiences elsewhere. Eventually, if people continue to accept these limitations placed on them in the real world, the virtual world will be their only refuge from the boring, static existence of inescapable hopelessness, and the social isolation we see rising from people being hooked into their tablets, smartphones, PC's, game systems, etc., will have the entire country being like me.

And we don't want that, do we? I know I don't, that's why I've been fighting back, getting more active, drawing up a plan to re-enter society and have me some damn REAL fun.

But hey, to each their own right? Those who can't interact won't reproduce and it'll correct itself anyway I suppose.
 
Padawanbater2

Padawanbater2

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Eh, not necessarily, I mean, it'll be centuries before humanity ever actually reaches an alien race beyond the Earth, and that's relying on the idea they'll contact us first, HA! Sometimes video games serve to suspend disbelief, nothing more. I don't ever plan on having superhero powers, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't enjoy playing as a character who does. Sometimes, that's the point.

While they may lead us to become more anti-social, that very same mechanism of division could eventually serve as a mechanism of improvement and inclusion into what we value in personal relationships. The relationships I have with some people now wouldn't even qualify as positive if someone asked me today, but with AI competing for genuine human interaction, real people would be forced to be better versions of themselves or be dismissed in favor of artificial relationships. A sort of 'free-market' of relationships.
 
Orithil

Orithil

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Padawanbater2 said:
Eh, not necessarily, I mean, it'll be centuries before humanity ever actually reaches an alien race beyond the Earth, and that's relying on the idea they'll contact us first, HA! Sometimes video games serve to suspend disbelief, nothing more. I don't ever plan on having superhero powers, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't enjoy playing as a character who does. Sometimes, that's the point.

While they may lead us to become more anti-social, that very same mechanism of division could eventually serve as a mechanism of improvement and inclusion into what we value in personal relationships. The relationships I have with some people now wouldn't even qualify as positive if someone asked me today, but with AI competing for genuine human interaction, real people would be forced to be better versions of themselves or be dismissed in favor of artificial relationships. A sort of 'free-market' of relationships.
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Isn't this world enough? Isn't this big, amazing, beautiful spinning ball in space enough to capture and hold your attention? I guess it comes down personal taste again, but as someone who's been out of the world for a long time, I think I made the wrong decision. I shouldn't have sought to suspend reality, I don't feel like escaping was the right path, I should have been exploring, carving out my own niche in this world. Meeting interesting people on this planet is enough for me, seeing the miracle of life in plants and animals and people is enough, knowing there are things on this planet that still, to this day, people have not seen, things that remain as mysterious as any other planet or alien race, is enough for me. I want to see these things, if you'd rather see things made up by another person's imagination I'm fine with that, I just don't necessarily see it as the positive you do. Take it as a matter of perspective.
 
BarnBuster

BarnBuster

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First time I noticed this thread. Sorry if deviating from current. Always felt deep profound sadness when viewing any of the photos in this series.

 
Padawanbater2

Padawanbater2

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Orithil said:
Isn't this world enough? Isn't this big, amazing, beautiful spinning ball in space enough to capture and hold your attention? I guess it comes down personal taste again, but as someone who's been out of the world for a long time, I think I made the wrong decision. I shouldn't have sought to suspend reality, I don't feel like escaping was the right path, I should have been exploring, carving out my own niche in this world. Meeting interesting people on this planet is enough for me, seeing the miracle of life in plants and animals and people is enough, knowing there are things on this planet that still, to this day, people have not seen, things that remain as mysterious as any other planet or alien race, is enough for me. I want to see these things, if you'd rather see things made up by another person's imagination I'm fine with that, I just don't necessarily see it as the positive you do. Take it as a matter of perspective.
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Apparently.. it's not.

I, with you, would like to believe it is, but I'd be lying to myself if I said it was..

You should have been exploring, but what if the real world was just as bad (or worse) than what you actually experienced? This is actually a fear of mine, I have high hopes of the real world, viewed through a cynical window, which only leads to disappointment.. Kinda like how you should never be optimistic about things so you're never be disappointed..
 
Orithil

Orithil

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Padawanbater2 said:
Apparently.. it's not.

I, with you, would like to believe it is, but I'd be lying to myself if I said it was..

You should have been exploring, but what if the real world was just as bad (or worse) than what you actually experienced? This is actually a fear of mine, I have high hopes of the real world, viewed through a cynical window, which only leads to disappointment.. Kinda like how you should never be optimistic about things so you're never be disappointed..
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I've lived the way you're describing for a decade, at least, being a cynic to avoid disappointment and what I found is that I'm no happier than I was before, and I've lost pretty much all my friends in the process. It's like a self-fulfilling prophecy, be negative and cynical and critical long enough, and all the bad experiences become amplified, the good experiences become muted and drowned in a sea of "that was just a one-off" and "oh, that won't happen again". The real world, I believe, is exactly like everything else. You get back what you put in, negative garbage in, negative garbage out. I'm done with that cycle, I'm moving on and making my happiness a reality by going out and grabbing it.

Maybe the restrictions of my class, my upbringing, my education, or my own body will try to bring me down, but I'm tougher than that. Giving up and giving in was my worst mistake, and I won't be making it again.

EDIT : And I know, me being only 33 it's hard to take the things I say with much stock, but you ask some of the older folks around if I'm right or not. You can't have it if you don't go get it.
 
DST

DST

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Orithil said:
EDIT : And I know, me being only 33 it's hard to take the things I say with much stock, but you ask some of the older folks around if I'm right or not. You can't have it if you don't go get it.
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Agreed, people make there own luck!
 
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