Posts by Lurker

It's a good idea, but eventually you run into hurt feelings and inflated egos, no matter how much you'd like to think the better of people.

Quote from nervousquirrel

You're right. Very good point. I've been thinking about putting together a "Portfolio" of sorts to explain the points of our project. The only problem is deciding how to do that without making too much information available, and likewise by not making a site that is to vague. We'll figure that out, but thanks, you made an excellent point.

http://www.insmod.net/info.php

Reference the Insurgency Mod's info page for a successful way of doing that. That's been up for God knows how long, and it gives you a good rundown of what the mod is and isn't.

All I'm saying is that the gameplay of Brothers in Arms fits directly into this criteria:

"Designing gameplay dynamics that support and perpetuate...

a) engagements that are significant and last

b) realworld tactics such as maneuvering around the battle field,

suppression fire, and flanking

c) the use of cover as an effective tool in combat (if you're behind

significant cover, but have a bit of a leg or something sticking out, the

odds of getting hit are fairly slim) "

The battles in Brothers in Arms lasted for a while, and it was tedious to say the least to pick any part of an enemies body off. So as far as your criteria is concerned, you are holding quite close to the Brothers in Arms gameplay model. Then again, you can see the difference between games like Brothers in Arms and Operation Flashpoint, but from my understanding you're planning on having this be a first-person shooter with squad command that includes the 4 Fs (Find, Fix, Flank, Finish).

Not that being like Brothers in Arms would be so bad, I personally thought both Road to Hill 30 and Earned in Blood were terrific, just that I find it odd that you would claim Brothers in Arms to be terrible and not be able to properly differenciate your project from it. What I said was that it sounded "like Brothers in Arms", correctly. Whether or not you do break new ground, what I take from your posts so far is that it IS very similar to the Brothers in Arms gameplay model, and whether or not you use a different squad command system the overall gameplay is going to be similar. Then again, it could be otherwise and I could just as easily be wrong/confused.

Either way, I didn't want to be a pest but you do have me intrigued and I'm wondering what model you plan to use that will not suffer from the same flaws as Brothers in Arms and other games do.

Your game might be nothing like Brothers in Arms, but the gameplay you've laid out so far will draw many comparisons, you had to have known that.

Sounds like Brothers in Arms on Source - that's sex. Good luck

Leave it up to someone to always ruin a perfectly legitimate thread, whether it be discussion about grammar or something completely unnecessary like above.

Is it that hard to not respond, or is there something that compells you to be a jackass?

People can script their own exporters for gmax, so that it can be used by communities.

Zacker, you can download an exporter than will allow you to export Wavefront .obj files from gmax, which you can then import in various other programs.

I'm ending high school this June and then going to do a Business degree, after that I'll probably go into Law... Not quite sure. Life is good, my part-time job is pretty well as good as I'm going to find as far as jobs are concerned. The work is interesting, the people are really nice, nothing much else you can ask for as far as I'm concerned. I've met this new girl who is absolutely fantastic... I hope everything works out, but something tells me she's going to play the friend card.

I don't have much to talk about with you guys, as I don't know many of you and I don't even map :roll:

It's better to criticize the meaning of the message, not the diction. It's like getting an awesome/shitty present and commenting on the wrapping, rather than the present itself. Attack the beef of the post, not the skin.

Anyone who wants religion outlawed is, ironically, being very much an idealist. Realistically, something like this would never happen. Either the good majority of the religions would roll into one or the situation would remain as it is with multiple religions. Since the beginning of the human species, people have been worshiping higher beings.

A more realistic solution would be to have the people of every religion stop trying to force their beliefs on others, which would lead to a much more tolerant society.

I think the idea he was getting at, DaanO, was that buildings of this architecture and style and very rarely built these days and are usually progressing towards a ruined state. The game also takes place in the "future", so this would only have sped the process. It would be nice to see a misplaced brick here and there, etc.

Here's a question about religion: if there's no one around to believe in its God(s), do they actually exist?

I ask this question because people have been slaughtering each other for millenia based on many things, one of them being religion. The possibility of human extinction is not completely out of the question here, in this day and age.

Personally, I'm a Roman Catholic by birth, but by life I've found that I deviate from many of the Church's philosophies. I really don't know what to believe anymore, the world is much too hectic and full of falsities to make an informed decision.

Radicals in any religion or viewpoint are extremely dangerous people. These people are completely blind to the viewpoints of others, and at any rate refuse to think they could be possibly wrong by any measure. Whether it be radical left (communist), radical right (fascism), radical Muslim (Islamist Extremists), Christian extremist, or anything else under the sun.

Quote from johnm487

Im totally against this women. Her son did pay the ultimate sacrifice, i know, but he knew it could happen, and so did she. Why is she getting all these people arrested? She's not even there.

They are there under their own power... how can you possibly blame this on Cindy Sheehan? It's not like she locked them up and put them there...

I don't have the time to read through the whole thread, but in your original post, you falsely accuse those who do not support the war of not supporting the troops. While SOME may dislike both, most level-headed individuals from both the left and right wings understand that there is a difference between supporting the military and supporting every military undertaken. It would be ignorant to assume the two go hand in hand all of the time, when in reality it is drastically different. Furthermore, the troops are carrying out the action. They need to, it's their job. The war protesters are protesting the fact that they're there because of poor policy decisions.

Cindy Sheehan isn't white trash. Her son paid the ultimate sacrifice in Iraq, her family has paid for her right to free speech in blood.

In regards to post #4: there is no meaningful link between Iraq and 9/11.

Mino: I wholeheartedly agree. There is an insane double standard regarding protesting. Case in point: pro-war protesters within the 7 mile limit of the ranch are allowed to remain protesting.

The bottom line remains: terrorism is not a black and white issue, despite what some people would like to think. People would like to think that terrorists were the spawn of the Devil, and want to kill each and every American or person who supports America. What they do is horrible, but that doesn't make it alright to do horrible things in return. People need to realize that the world is cyclical, things happen in cycles and they happen because of past events. If you think that you can defeat terrorism by invading countries on false intelligence, torturing people, stealing oil money from the people of an occupied country, etc. you'll be proven wrong. If history is forgotten, it will repeat itself. So many of the actions taken by the United States government and its allies are so shocking hypocritical, you can't help but think that they're asking for all the negative press they seem to be getting now.

Go ask Israel how well aggresion worked with terrorism.

If he wants to make a mod on any subject, that's his right. I won't sit here and criticize/hate on him or his game because it belongs to a certain theme. WWII game? Great, I hope you top everyone that's out there because that would be good for me as a consumer. The way I figure, the more the better. More selection, more variety within the WWII theme.

If you're not interested in the mod, you simply don't have to comment and don't have to play. It's in everyone's best interest that people who don't want to play the game don't waste time commenting on it.

Quote from von*ferret

Post some pictures.

Not too hard to click the link and go to Media, is it?

I donated to Oxfam Canada. The relief agencies working on the earthquake are quickly running out of money and there are still some 200,000 people who have yet to receive any sort of aid.

Quote from Holeman

Except that what RD said is basically true, even in the United States, people ARE arguing that the western culture is to blame for not being "tolerant" enough with this group, and while I do not think that is actually true, if you read his post, that is the point. States are saying "well what do we need to do to make these radicals not hate us" but the thing is there is nothing, because they are radicals. I happen to agree very much with RD's post, and really to say its "a gross hyperbole" is quite ironic.

I did not call his whole post a hyperbole....

To say it's a tradition to blame oneself for the actions of others is a gross hyperbole.

"'We do not torture,' Mr Bush told reporters during a visit to Panama."

laff.

Quote from RD

I was talking about Holland, do you actually read what i write?

Anyway, back to france, im not denying theyve been treated badly. They want revenge, some insight from me

Look at the context of my messages, anything that deals with you is in the proper context.

I wasn't talking about the treatment of immigrants in Holland or France individually, I was talking about the treatment of immigrants in general. Again, the difference between France and Holland in this situation is that the immigrants in France are fighting back now, that doesn't make the situation in Holland any worse or any better. The treatment of immigrants to a country is extremely universal, what applies to one country likely applies to another country, especially one that neighbours it.