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- noun Plural form of
ragdoll .
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This programmer will be responsible for the game-specific application of physics elements such as ragdolls, biomechanical animation, vehicle dynamics, cloth, fragments, collisions, contact forces, fluid-dynamics, etc. Requirements:
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The next suggestion, "ragdolls," almost received similar treatment until Petri decided to conflate the two and make "Ragdoll Peggle."
Destructoid 2009
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It would have been different for me if it was just an over-the-top extreme action sequence where people were thrown around like ragdolls but no one died.
We watched Watchmen | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009
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Finally, we listened to Anamanaguchi's new 8-bit punk EP, drooled over the best Fallout 3 shirts ever made, wished more games came with a 'hug' button, geared up for The Beatles: Rock Band, geared up to torture ragdolls in a new iPhone game, and, wonderfully, saw that recently featured indie fave Jumpman will also be coming to Apple's device.
Boing Boing 2009
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In the worldless short film version, two of the ragdolls -- 9 and 5 -- are scavenging for items when they encounter and must fight one of the ramshackle machine monsters, whose head is a skull, limbs are metal, and torso made out of the burlap hide of ragdolls it's already killed.
Elijah Wood Goes Animated For Post-Apocalyptic Animated Epic, ‘9’ » MTV Movies Blog 2008
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One thing i said when i saw the first hulk movie years ago, i left the theater disappointed on how they turned the hulk to a mini godzilla, and mankind was ragdolls.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - The Incredible Hulk: Early Positive Reviews Hit the Net 2008
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The feature-length version will have more characters, as developed by "Corpse Bride" writer Pamela Pettler, and more beasts, to enrich the world that 9 took place in, so that you can see how this world came to be, how the ragdolls fit in, what the beasts are that hunt them, and what happened to the humans.
Elijah Wood Goes Animated For Post-Apocalyptic Animated Epic, ‘9’ » MTV Movies Blog 2008
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"It's basically about a post-apocalyptic world where machines created by man have destroyed mankind, and these nine ragdolls go about trying to find out what has happened and what these machines are about."
Elijah Wood Goes Animated For Post-Apocalyptic Animated Epic, ‘9’ » MTV Movies Blog 2008
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Both Clinton and Holbrooke must suffer the occasional urge to shake like ragdolls the Pakistani elites with whom they negotiate.
Mayhill Fowler: The New Strategy for Obama's War: Precision Power 2009
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A remake of – you guessed it – Ragdoll Cannon, Ragdoll Cannon Remake asks you to fire hundreds of creepy, realistically-floppy ragdolls at a target head-first.
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