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I don't. Sorry.

Yes, go ahead. I would like for them to look as close to the graphic at the top of the site as possible.

To be clear, these models are not going to be used in "the movie" itself. It's just a project I'm going to be doing for the site itself.

Also, you can post your questions for the May video chat here or you can post your questions to [email protected] and I'll be sure Ross gets them. If you post a question for Ross for the May video chat here, please put "Question for Ross" at the top of the post so I can differentiate them from other posts about what Ross said in the April video chat. Thanks!

I can take pretty standard files, such as .obj, .3ds, .lwo, .dxf, .dae, .goz, .ma, .mb, and .blend. Will they have textures? If not, I can still probably work with it as long as they have sane UV maps. Thanks so much!

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Hey, folks! I hope I'm not overstepping my bounds here but I'm seriously considering making some kind of 3D animation for Accursed Farms, but I'm in need of some assistance in that respect. Since the Internet has failed me in finding free or cheap models that I can use, I am putting out a call to any 3D modeler here. It may or may not relate to "The Movie!"; I'd have to see how everything works out. What I'm looking for are 3D models of the Accursed Farms barn, grain silos, the scarecrow, and potentially the cow (but the cow could be left out). Nothing I can find on the Internet suits this purpose. I can get close to how they visually look on the website, but not exactly. So, would any 3D modeler like to try their hand at this? If so, either respond here on the forums or you can PM me about it. Thanks in advance to anyone who wants to try this out!

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Well the thing is, I think there should be questions saved for moments where there's nothing interesting in the chat. I understand when Ross skips questions in the chat that he has talked about before, or that he needs time to think about (that's why I sent my most interesting questions ahead of time last time btw), or that are simply not worth answering. But if it's a good question, like one I had about the turn they gave to the story in the LoK sequels, and what would he think silicon knights' direction had they developed it. So what I think would work better is if you screen the questions people send so that you take out non relevant ones, and the ones that are, you can give them to Ross so he can answer the best ones and if towards the end of the chat, as it has happened, questions run dry then he can maybe answer 1 or 2 more while people submit others. I just thought it was frustrating seeing questions I thought were interesting get past over because there wasn't enough time, then see Ross spending minutes in silence because people didn't ask interesting stuff. As I said before, far from disrespect or bad criticism, I just want to give my thoughts and hopefully help everyone involved have a much better experience in the videchats. I do appreciate the work and time that goes into them, and since I have been asking for this for ages I just want to see it be as good as it can be. If you want, please repost your unanswered question(s) to [email protected] and I'll be sure Ross sees everything you post this time. Again, my apologies.

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Speaking of which, Microsoft released an AI Twitter bot yesterday (March 23, 2016) and had to quickly take it back down afterwards when it began spewing out hundreds of Twitter messages, saying things like denying the Holocaust, praising Hitler, and so on.

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It could be I'm wrong then on that point. Wouldn't the articles about the new jobs we're getting paying less still hold up however? IIRC, that's just what happens after huge recessions like the one we just had. Low-paying jobs come back first. Then, as the economy continues to improve, medium- and higher-paying jobs start to come back. I liken it to a house fire. It's super fast to destroy a lot of things that took time to create. It then takes a lot longer to come back from that fire. First, you have to remove all the things damaged and destroyed by the fire before you can do cleanup, and then re-get everything lost, just to get back to status quo. From what I can tell, comparing the previous recession to, say, the Great Depression, we're tracking that pretty well.

The thing is, the media don't really report the numbers you're looking for but the government does. It's just oftentimes buried under the official numbers. There are six rates published by the US government: As of February 2016: U-1: percentage of the labor force unemployed 15 weeks or longer U-2: percentage of labor force who lost jobs or completed temp work U-3: official unemployment rate that everyone knows U-4: U-3 rate + discouraged workers, persons who have given up looking for work U-5: U-4 rate + marginally attached workers, persons who have been unemployed for so long that they're no longer counted in the U-3 rate, but are still looking for work or have stopped looking for work but still want work U-6: U-5 rate + people employed part-time who would rather have full time As of February 2016: U-1: 2.1% (down from high of 5.9% in April 2010) U-2: 2.4% (down from high of 6.3% in December 2009) U-3: 4.9% (down from high of 10% in October 2009) U-4: 5.3% (down from high of 10.5% in February 2010) U-5: 6.0% (down from high of 11.3% in April 2010) U-6: 9.7% (down from high of 17.1% in April 2010) You can find these rates listed here. Generally, when you hear people are referencing the "real unemployment rate", they're simply taking the number of people "not in the labor force" (that is, not working at all for whatever reason), and mixing that with the U-6 number to get the extremely distorted figure of 40% or more unemployed. Back to the question at the end of the video: What sci-fi movie or whatever is the future going to be most like? Depends on how far into the future we're talking, but if we're talking about in the next 100 years, I'm thinking some sort of Frankenstein's monster mixture of "Demolition Man" and "Star Trek". I'm just not sure if we're going to have the good parts of those or the bad parts...

Ross, I must fervently disagree with something you said in this video. You advised us to look up the "real unemployment rate" and then showed a chart showing the Civilian Employment-Population Ratio beginning around 1990. I feel both of these are misleading in the extreme. First, the "real unemployment rate" is a misnomer because it includes people 16 years old or older who are just not working for whatever reason. This includes retirees, students going back to school, the disabled and other reasons that might not have anything to do with the current employment situation. Which brings me to the second part. The chart you provided. If you expand the "Civilian Employment-Population" chart out to its furthest extreme (beginning in 1948), you will see that the ratio was much lower back in the 1950s and 1960s. The reason for the increase starting in the early-1960s is the Baby Boomers entering the workforce. The drop-off starting around the year 2000, in the meanwhile, represents the beginning of the Baby Boomers retiring and leaving the workforce. It is my contention that, beyond the severe drop during the financial crisis, the numbers are still above normal and going back up, despite the retiring Baby Boomers. Maybe we're recovering until all the Baby Boomers retire and/or die out* in which case, we return to the levels we had in the 1950s. Just wanted to inject some context into that. * Sorry for being morbid there. My father is a Baby Boomer and he's been retired and I don't think you can really count him as being unemployed because he's getting a large enough pension from being a federal worker to keep him in money for the rest of his life, but that's not the case for others, but they're retiring as well so they might be in a similar situation, or they may not be. Just saying, I don't think you can count retirees as unemployed.

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Hello, everyone! Are you a big fan of the "Witcher" games? Have you dumped many hours into the life and times of Geralt of Rivia? Would you like to help with "The Movie!"? Email me at [email protected] ! I'd love to talk with you about it. Thanks!

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He has mentioned it in his videochats before. It's where I learned it. He lives in or near Gdańsk.

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