realism

The realism on HN keeps me grounded but the naivete on TIG keeps me dreaming.

" You need to temper any goals you have with maturity and realism.

You're coherent enough to play and understand it, but the realism spikes a thousand times.

Or, at least, the reign of hyper-realism and hyper-whimsy in UI design.

The policor backlash to the game's realism and grittiness - and the nazi-aspect - was huge.

Impressive for real-time, but nowhere near realism one can get with Naiad or Realflow and a proper renderer.

A paragon of magical realism and my second favorite author.

A number of older game developers decided, when they made the change from 2D to 3D, to pursue a similarly "gritty" realism.

Skeuomorphic realism certainly didn't start with the iPhone.

And it's fashionable to be shiny and realistic when it's a hard effect to implement, and flat when shiny realism is one library-call away.

I'm not saying that that's the only right way, and I'm very much not saying that the EU is doing it right, but classical realism isn't the only approach to international relations out there.

If you integrate so-called "cynical realism" over the same intelligent population, you create a self-fulfilling prophecy of defeatism which is nothing to pat yourself on the back about, either.

I went back and counted the number of different avenues along which he tried to attack, and there were no less than 11: Watsi's office, Chase's language, neocolonialism, race, the focus on patient care, Silicon Valley, California idealism, Watsi's investors, how real the connection is between donor and patient, why they don't fund patients in the US, and the realism of Chase's dreams.