Posts by Thrik

Looks like those photos came from Russia's RT.com, dubbed the 'Putin Propaganda Network', lmao.

http://www.businessinsider.com/rt-coverage-of-ukraine-2014-3

I did quite enjoy reading D3's posts about this, it's good to hear a more informed opinion rather than hysteria. Also very interesting how quickly this has evolved way past mere clashes between police and protesters, and now we're looking at the risk of full-scale war. Amazing how history can be made.

That said, I'm pretty sure those photos of the civilians and soldiers living in harmony are propaganda, lol.

Christ yes.

Well, this really is becoming a potentially international mess now.

It's kind of fascinating how Valve is successfully turning everyone into kids again who love collecting things that have no real value, and are willing to go to great lengths to get rare items. Reminds me of pogs and shit.

I love the authentic effects some of these have, lol.

Nice, thick letters and simple forms (no fancy-ass fonts) is the key.

I'm going to give it a go, it looks like something I'll enjoy. Really wondering what some of you on here think about how it compares to Dishonored, as I absolutely loved that game.

Just realised that Interceptor is the same studio that had that trouble ages ago when they were making that sweet-looking remake of Duke Nukem 3D but said Gearbox had made them shut it down — only for Gearbox to later say they could go ahead with it after all, as a non-commercial fan project as originally agreed.

It looks to me like 3D Realms caught onto that somehow, and decided to work directly with Interceptor to create some other Duke-related game using the limited license Interceptor had. So that does make things more blurry, but in all honesty this just reeks of assholery on 3D Realms' part. Also, Gearbox has been revealing in its lawsuit how much of a mess the 'game' they inherited from 3D Realms was.

Helping 3D Realms was probably one of the worst decisions Gearbox ever made. Almost as bad as deciding to make a game using one of the world's most famous sci-fi film IPs and then outsourcing it.

D3 I know you're into your Eastern Bloc and everything, but can you stop being an apologist for a moment and just join the rest of the world in agreeing that this is some fucked up shit? There's absolutely no situation where it's appropriate for snipers of the authorities to be gunning down civilians — and especially not in circumstances as described.

"It's a terrible loss of life... but I can't but think of that phrase 'play stupid games, win stupid prizes'" is the kind of thing I'd expect a dictator to say after torching a town to the ground because its people took issue with his policies. I mean, really? Did that girl who recently got shot in the head deserve it because she threw eggs at some dude's car?

I think most of us are past the point of even caring about the politics and backstory, and just want to vent disapproval of such indiscriminate and unnecessary killing. Who's more in the wrong and what barely armed civilians did to deserve having their heads blown open by a sharpshooter is kind of besides the point.

Lol, oh boy. In all fairness though, if 3D Realms is trying to use the IP they sold then that is most definitely unacceptable regardless of how much of a mess DNF ended up being (probably not that much because of Gearbox).

Yay!!!!!

Front of the page for sure, this seems like the kind of site where the home page needs to be somewhere where they can find exactly what they want within a couple of clicks or so of landing there.

I meant the one at night, half the buildings are missing. Are they destructible or just left out? But it's good to know that entire village hadn't disappeared too.

I think you need to think seriously about how to make this useful to people. I just tried the following terms:

• adventure game
• rts
• shooter

Not a single one turned up any results, and those are actually types of indie games I was genuinely interested in so the site pretty much failed for my needs there. Yet if I go ahead and type 'indie game shooter', 'indie game rts', or 'indie game adventure game' into Google I get loads of examples of such games.

Certainly, presenting it as a search engine is the wrong way to go. You're effectively building a directory, so it should be presented as a directory complete with big imagery (people want to see these games), popularity/ratings, etc. You can still include a search feature, but it should be a secondary focus — otherwise you're focusing directly with Google, which is a battle you'll never win.

As for the submission issue, you need to do some work there. You can't rely on people to want to submit projects until it already looks worth submitting to. At the moment nobody even knows what games are there unless they happen to type the correct tags, which is in itself like an unfortunate game. There's no way to just browse, which is what people want from this kind of site.

So you need to present the games better, and also put some serious effort into pre-populating it with games — whether you do it manually or develop algorithms that can identify things on Kickstarter (or at least nominate them so you can manually add them) is up to you.

BTW, I'm going to move this to the regular off-topic forum. This is a sincere discussion so should be in a place more likely to get serious responses.

It is curious that it's Facebook-only. Is it because Facebook provides some kind of easy profile creation, tracking, etc? Seems like it could limit the audience as Facebook games seem less in favour nowadays compared to even two years ago.

I don't even understand what's happening there. It's not like it's just missing effects and post-processing, in the town shot there are literally entire buildings and such missing. Why would you even implement that stuff just to take it out?

Are you kidding? We're deleting people coming by and spamming Kickstarter projects and/or projects and never returning on a virtually daily basis. Just look at the guy's studio if you're that keen to see it.

I appreciate that this might be a legitimate question, but as we've had a lot of people making threads like this recently just to advertise their stuff I've removed the name and link of the game. You're welcome to share it if it needs to come up during the thread's natural discussion.

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NSFL

When things like that are happening, it's like throwing oil on fire, the only way to get things calm is for the Ukrainian government to resign, you don't extinguish fire by fire. But i guess now it's too late, maybe they don't resign because the government members have now too much to answer to. And they know what will happen of them if they have to be judged in court by the population and especially their rivals.

edit : but as knj said, it's impossible to know, we just do speculations for our own distraction, and even though you are there in the ukrainian streets, you don't know a thing.

And there is this quote i like in the prince of machiavel

When the duke occupied the Romagna he found it under the rule of weak masters, who rather plundered their subjects than ruled them, and gave them more cause for disunion than for union, so that the country was full of robbery, quarrels, and every kind of violence; and so, wishing to bring back peace and obedience to authority, he considered it necessary to give it a good governor. Thereupon he promoted Messer Ramiro d'Orco,(*) a swift and cruel man, to whom he gave the fullest power. This man in a short time restored peace and unity with the greatest success. Afterwards the duke considered that it was not advisable to confer such excessive authority, for he had no doubt but that he would become odious, so he set up a court of judgment in the country, under a most excellent president, wherein all cities had their advocates. And because he knew that the past severity had caused some hatred against himself, so, to clear himself in the minds of the people, and gain them entirely to himself, he desired to show that, if any cruelty had been practised, it had not originated with him, but in the natural sternness of the minister. Under this pretence he took Ramiro, and one morning caused him to be executed and left on the piazza at Cesena with the block and a bloody knife at his side. The barbarity of this spectacle caused the people to be at once satisfied and dismayed.

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Ugh... my word.