Posts by dux

Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. A little better but still looks like a top down WoW. Maybe it's the videos that just put me off, we'll see.

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Make something for HL2 Ep2 next time! No one has Crysis installed

This is sadly true. But honestly, I enjoyed looking at the pretty pictures though

egotism

I thought dorothy was one of peris's eot accounts. Mind = blown.

Half life still looks good to me.

Anyway put about 8 hours into this so far and loving it. It's certainly ugly in places but everything else makes up for it. And its certainly harder to level, I'm only level 7.

Few immersion breaking mishaps but no major bugs like those that were reported.

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I just watched the NASCAR episode. Well fuck my ass.

I lold.

I bet there's at least 1 person who has masturbated to this film.

Is it me or does she look strangely out of proportion?

I wonder what Peris' computer is made up of. I'm guessing cardboard tubes.

Lladysul; could be worse. Maybe

I was really lucky with my freelancing gig for natural selection 2. I'm not sure if I could ever work in a high profile "suit based" game studio. Gooseman contacted me (Mr. Counter-Strike!) but things changed so he refereed me to flayra to work on NS2. And my Art producer, and infact everyone is really cool to talk with and know what they are doing for the most part. This is how I want to work indefinitely, I love making games but I don't want to move from where I live. So if this ends I'm likely going to go back to doing this as a hobby unless a super sweet deal arrives. All the studios I went to interview at were not particularly amazing towards me and put me off wanting to relocate for my first ever game dev gig. Not to mention the stories I had already heard of what game studios were like so I was feeling a bit downtrodden after the whole experience. Yay freelance! Have I gone offtopic a bit?

Well it's not that it sucks, it was just better suited for Oblivions art. It sorta struggles with rocks and bump maps. Oblivion itself I think still looks neato.

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You sir win the thread

How, exactly?

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Yeah, it's pretty lame but we're not doing that badly — the US is at least as bad as us and they're pretty much internet central. The problem is the old copper phone networks were laid out long ago in these countries, so taking all that out and replacing them with fibre is an insanely costly thing to do. And we're not talking a few million here, we're talking something in the region of £15 billion last time I checked. That's a serious problem even for a company as massive as BT.Some other countries are much better off because their lines were laid down more recently and they had the foresight to use fibre knowing it'd eventually pay off, just like Virgin/NTL/Diamond Cable/whatever laid out fibre across much of the UK in the 90s (which is already available and capable of doing at least 100mb/s). The reason the UK/US progress has been slow is because we already have a fully functioning phone/broadband network and it's simply an upgrade, and also there wasn't enough competition in the past forcing BT to do it quickly. Of course that's changed now the internet has continued to boom and Virgin has started threatening BT by actually making proper use of its fibre network.

But yes, again it sucks. I'm stuck on 8mb/s in the centre of Nottingham right now, despite being on a fairly luxurious 20mb/s in my previous small town of Mansfield.

Aye. I'm just frustrated at all of this due to my reliance on my small connection. Of course it's easy for me to say "OMG UPGRADE IT ALL" when that really isn't the simple option, but what alternative is there, really.

A great contribution. Fuck off.

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At the end of the day it's always going to be a massive, expensive, long-winded process to move BT to fibre due to the crazy scale of their network — some areas are going to get it first no matter what. This is just a way of doing it based on demand, which I can't see a problem with.I'm not really excited about Infinity anyway as not all homes will be getting a direct 100mb/s fibre — many if not most will only have fibre to their street, with a top speed of 40mb/s and a cap of 20GB. That's not even as good as Virgin's already-available 50mb/s fibre, and Virgin is rolling out 100mb/s as we speak.

It's just really pants. We're one of the leading countries in the world and we're in the dark age of internet. I have had to settle for my entire internet life on a crap 3mb connection with a cap. Just stone age rubbish. And as for demand, it's in demand everywhere; everyone wants faster internet so why bother with silly votes. It is a big investment but one worth the money and effort completely.

http://www.racetoinfinity.bt.com/home

If you want Fibre Optics in the uk, you have to vote for it! That's right, BT won't just give it away; you have to get down on your hands and knees and beg for it.

Type in my post code and have a look at what it says for yourselves: SA445PS

Lmao. What ever happened to playtesters? Or competent ones at that.