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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    04/16/09

    In reply to Dreaming in Pixels
    This 8-bit fad is becoming like steampunk - it was great at first, but it's getting a bit overdone.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    04/16/09

    In reply to Dreaming in Pixels
    Those jagged edges wouldn't be that good. I used to use something like this when I worked midnights, and any little light matters. Mine said "Can't sleep, clowns will eat me...."
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    Image of mat1cs (still a nerd) mat1cs (still a nerd)
    04/16/09

    @YoSoyHe-Man!!_GitEmSteveDave: haha was this a Simpsons reference or an Alice Cooper one?


    either way, I'm really surprised I recognized it.

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    04/16/09

    @mat1cs: I got that thing he sent me.: I got it at Hot Topic, so it must have been Simpsons.
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    Image of Shamoononon: I shave my legs. Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
    04/16/09

    @YoSoyHe-Man!!_GitEmSteveDave: Gee, for some reason I thought Hot Topic was local.


    Did you also pick up a new leash?



    Hee hee, Goths and Emos crack me up.

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    Shamoononon: I shave my legs. was starred Shamoononon: I shave my legs. was unstarred
    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    04/16/09

    @Shamoononon thanks Rocephin: I tend to reuse my dog's old collars. Saves more money for mascare-ya.
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    04/16/09

    In reply to Dreaming in Pixels
    Another missed branding opportunity--these should have been named "Pixel Peepers".
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    Image of damnelantra™ damnelantra™
    03/31/09

    In reply to The Pixel Cloud Skyscraper Is a JRPG Dream Fortress
    不真正得!
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    Image of Nick Nick
    03/31/09

    In reply to The Pixel Cloud Skyscraper Is a JRPG Dream Fortress
    doesn't someone here use that as an avatar?
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    Image of Voryn Voryn
    03/31/09

    In reply to The Pixel Cloud Skyscraper Is a JRPG Dream Fortress
    I cannot be more confused from that last picture.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    03/31/09

    @Voryn: Wasn't that from an episode of either The Next Generation or Voyager?
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    03/31/09

    @Voryn: It's the final boss from Street Fighter 3.
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    Image of bandit bandit
    03/26/09

    In reply to Honda Creates Pixel Art From Hundreds of Car Headlights
    I say it's real. You can see the cars in the back have darker lights which is accounted for by the fact that they are spaced further apart to create the trapezoid that defeats the perspective effect. One thing I don't get is the decay. In the close-ups, you see the headlights tend to fade over about a second. In the wide animations, there seems to be a very fast response time between frames. It doesn't seem to match up, you'd expect some blurring as the headlight brightness decays when you turn them off.
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    03/26/09

    @bandit: Please see above. You've now taken up the page count space of 4 commenters when your ideas could have been consolidated into a single entry with self-replying/quoting. Somewhat bad etiquette.
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    Image of bandit bandit
    03/26/09

    In reply to Honda Creates Pixel Art From Hundreds of Car Headlights
    Actually, the end shows people in the cars, so perhaps they were all cued to flick the lights on and off by walkie-talkie or something. Wouldn't be hard and you might even convince owners to do this voluntarily or for a small payment. Or maybe they are putting all those backlogged stockpiles to good use!
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    03/26/09

    @bandit: ...to that little "quote" button in the lower right hand corner.


    Using the quote to gather your thoughts when your comments are really just segues to each other helps avoid unnecessarily eating into the "20 original comments per page" tally.

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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    03/26/09

    @bosskev: "..."quote" button"


    ...by which I mean, of course, the "click here to reply to this comment" button, as it is officially called.


    And see how I did not use up an original comment slot?

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    bosskev was starred bosskev was unstarred
    Image of bandit bandit
    03/26/09

    In reply to Honda Creates Pixel Art From Hundreds of Car Headlights
    They could use the keyless remotes to lock/unlock and trigger the lights without the use of additional wiring.
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    03/26/09

    @bandit: ...to introduce you...
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    bosskev was starred bosskev was unstarred
    Image of bandit bandit
    03/26/09

    In reply to Honda Creates Pixel Art From Hundreds of Car Headlights
    Where did they shoot the footage from? The top of a crane or a hill?
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    03/26/09

    @bandit: Allow me...
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    Image of Kaspir Kaspir
    03/26/09

    In reply to Honda Creates Pixel Art From Hundreds of Car Headlights
    hypothesizing that this was made with real cars, how did they get all the lighting to sync with eachother to create the movement and picture effects?
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    03/26/09

    @Kaspir: Anyone who needs a few extra hours on their paycheck, NOT OVERTIME please sign up on the board over here please.
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    Image of frigg frigg
    03/26/09

    In reply to Honda Creates Pixel Art From Hundreds of Car Headlights
    Cool ad, although it's a little unclear that those are cars and not a light brite. Perhaps the director should have done something with road rage at the end, with the cars maniacally flashing their brights on and off and then smashing into each other in an escalating car brawl.
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    03/26/09

    @frigg: "...road rage at the end, with the cars maniacally flashing their brights on and off and then smashing into each other in an escalating car brawl."


    That would have actually been a better Honda commercial. Or a tourism ad for Hakodate, Japan.

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    bosskev was starred bosskev was unstarred
    Image of frigg frigg
    03/26/09

    @bosskev: Or perhaps have a few GM SUVs inadvertently drive onto the set, like a couple of lions mistakingly wandering into an ambush of tigers, only to have the reams of Hondas surround and pummel the SUVs into symbolic little cubes.
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    03/26/09

    @frigg: Or a Mel Gibson film.
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    bosskev was starred bosskev was unstarred
    Image of frigg frigg
    03/26/09

    @bosskev: or Mel Gibson
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    03/26/09

    In reply to Honda Creates Pixel Art From Hundreds of Car Headlights
    They can't sell any of those cars as new any more. I guess they will become company cars.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    03/26/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: If they did it on a factory lot, they can. They can claim it was an electrical system check while they were parked after being built.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    03/26/09

    In reply to Honda Creates Pixel Art From Hundreds of Car Headlights
    And also, all that rapid on and off isn't good for those headlights. Some "new" car owner is going to have to pay when their light burns out sooner than normal.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    03/26/09

    In reply to Honda Creates Pixel Art From Hundreds of Car Headlights
    But we paid Al Gore a crapload of money for Carbon Offset Credits, which means we can do whatever we want, and live in a cloud of our own Smug, and claim to be "Green"! Emperor Gore told us so!
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