Posts by Zacker

I found these cool posts on some blogs. Good to see that we are not fighting for freedom of speech alone:)

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This was last September and the Muslims aren’t letting this issue go away. They’ve already lodged a somewhat florid protest at the UN, where they got the sympathy of a tranzi ear or two. But their aim is an abject apology from Denmark for breaking an Islamic taboo - or else. They grow more threatening and the courageous Anders Rasmussen calmly declines to change his mind, saying publishing cartoons is not against Danish law, which is the law that applies in Denmark.Why are our cowardly leaders letting the steadfast Mr Rasmussen and the newspaper’s editors take the heat alone? Why has not one American Congressman raised the issue in Congress? No one would expect an unequivocal response from the British prime minister, but is there not one British MP brave enough to support Mr Rasmussen and the Danish people who are, after all, defending the liberty of all of us? Is there not one newspaper editor – even a tabloid – with the strength of conviction to support the Danes? Now Danish livelihoods are being threatened for failing to condemn this infraction against Islamic law, with boycotts of their products.

Is there not one damn’ politician in the entire Anglosphere who will take a stand with Mr Rasmussen? What about John Howard, then? The newly elected Harper? God help us, where is Jesse Jackson?

So far, the sole support has come from Norway – another Viking nation, let us note – one of whose papers printed the original article translated into Norwegian and ran the cartoons. Will not one elected member of an Anglosphere government stand shoulder to shoulder with Mr Rasmussen, who is single-handedly defending Western values and freedoms?

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Denmark is under enormous pressure these days, thanks to the fascistic attempts of large parts of the Islamic world to force them to deny their Western birthright of free speech and free expression because one of their newspapers printed a few mildly critical cartoons of the Islamic Prophet. An Arab Muslim boycott of one of their largest dairy exporters, Arla Foods, is under way, in addition to the usual death threats and childish whining.Support the cartoon anti-jihad and buy Danish products -- Denmark is fighting the good fight for all of us Western people and our right to preserve our traditional, free and open cultures.

Some months ago a danish newspaper published 12 drawings of the prophet Muhammad. Since then many muslim and middleeastern countries are getting crazier and crazier ideas each day.

Many muslim countries and people want the danish government to give the newspaper a fee. In Denmark we got a society of justice with free speech, so a government can logically not just give a newspaper a fee. If anyone have to judged here, then you got the courts and judges to do that.

They also want the danish government to apologize. That sounds crazy to me as the newspaper which published the drawings is completely independant of the government. The government have absolutely nothing to say regarding the articles in the newspaper, so why should they apologize for it?

Danish products are receiving a boykot in most middleastern countries. How on earth can it be fair that some milk company is punished for something a completely unrelated newspaper have done?

Imo the requirements and boykots down there were already bad enough, but now they are going even further. EU offices get raided by armed men. The danish flag is burned off. Palestinian groups want all danes out of the western bank within 3 days. Others are encouraging everybody to attack all avaible danish targets.

These kind of actions are really pissing me off. The free speech and liberal press we have in Denmark is among the things I am the most proud of. Now all these people are attacking it and want us to discard that and do as they want. All because of some drawings.

They should not be allowed to threat us like that. We should not abandon our free society and way of living because of some far out muslims.

Where is the backup from other western countries? USA usually do a lot to get freedom and liberty in this world, attack other countries and such. But do they have the courage to support Denmark in this case? Appearently not...

We need everyone not living in the middleage to step up and tell those middle eastern countries a thing or two about the freedom of speech.

When I saw the first shots I was not too sure of what to think of it. It had potential, but it also lacked a lot of things.

You are on the right track for sure, it's getting better and better.

What currently annoys me the most is the texture with the flying cars. The texture looks like some 128*128 highly compressed texture. It does simply not have the quality to be as big as it is.

It is also very visible that the flying cars are 2d, but that might be different ingame when they move. At least I have seen it done before and it looked ok.

Ahh X-Files, damn it's many years since I last saw an episode of that. I saw it a lot many years ago and enjoyed, but I have never been a big fan or something. I got absolutely no idea of what episodes it was that I saw.

I have yet to run my comp through 3dmark 05, I can't stand low framerates.

Flat bright areas do appear to me with slight artifacts such as moving colours, and such random stuff. Nothing which has ever bothered me though.

Btw. what are your screen settings? I got my CRT at this:

Brightness: 60/100

Contrast 100/100

Having a relative low brightness allows me to have darker surroundings without the screen getting over-bright.

There is not really anything special about these terms, it's just straightforward.

High poly models is generally made for stuff which is to be pre-rendered, like movies. Low poly models are generally for games, as these needs to be rendered realtime.

Animations are done with the bones and don't care about the amount of polygons.

Very nice to finally see some shots of their new game. The original FarCry still looks nice, so it is exciting to see what they have for us this time.

As the others said, the shot you showed CJ is really nice. The original HL level design was great and you improved it big time. The feel is still the same, which is important to me, and yet there are fresh and nice additions.

Well at least it seems like we got semi-regular updates now, which is a big plus. It was really a joke that they had all reasons to release more updates to Hammer 4 and yet did not do it for almost a year. This is what should have been the strength of Steam, regular updates.

As long as they fit in, then I think it's super cool if we can get cheaper games that way.

The Source engine is already prepared for it, so it might also come in Valve in games at some point. It is this technology we use for our dynamic motds at SoW.

Half-Life 1 is probably the game I consider as the best ever. I have had _lots_ of fun a lot of other games though.

Here is a few randoms where I probably have forgotten the best:

Command & Conquer

UT(both 1 and 2k4)

Sim City

FarCry

Starcraft

Maxpayne 2

Transport Tycoon

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I It seems that the HL2 mod community needs something different and fresh. Something that doesn't focus on "Apocalyptic Warzones" or "Realistic War Experiences" would be nice for the large community of horror fans.

Horror mods are not exactly "fresh"...

But cbble looks like shit and you can cut the poly count in half without visual impact. I have tried working on parts of cbble and it is horrible mapping.

The outdoor shot looks sweet, a little too smooth maybe. The caves inside are also ok, but they need more detail.

Congrats!

Wow what a change! Looks pretty good and not filled with physcics props. The cliffs near the player on the left could use some more polygons though.

As frie mentioned it looks very HL1'ish, which imo is really good. I have weak spot for HL alike architecture so despite the lack of detail I really like it:)

I think all this talk about games making you evil is a big joke. You are in need of help if you think that playing violent games make you violent.

Quality mapping for sure, but that HDR is a little too agressive in some shots. Try and spread it a little more so that it's the horizon and not just the sun which is glowing.