Posts by D3ads

I don't listen to a lot of music these days, but I've been going back through some of my old CDs and rediscovered Swedish Doom metal band Draconian's second release 'Arcane Rain Fell', from the build up in the storm at the beginning to the final breathtaking epic 'Death Come Near Me', it hits all the right notes. If you like melodic metal with female vocals and some occasional heavy guitars, you'll hopefully enjoy it.

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What I've seen out there are captachas that are games or puzzles, they work on the fact that bots don't have AI.

Yeah, bots can't do this...

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Some people have problems

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Hahaha, everyone's favourite troll in the comments section again..

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...who the fuck came up with the phase ticks?! They swarm you instantly and you die in about 10 seconds no matter how many you shoot or whether or not you stun them! This is really bollocks, I was enjoying things up till this point (and kind of the point where the spetsnaz mutants kept spawning over and over again).

I am currently playing...

SINGULARITY!

Finally got hold of this one four years after release, I was put off by it when it was originally shown due to the some of the cliches I was seeing and a lot of funky coloured lighting which didn't really fit the setting for me. Since several people at the Core worked for Raven back in the day, I saw an art dump about a year later and liked the amount of detail that was put into it like the propaganda posters and general environment work but I still didn't get it then and largely forgot about it for several years. I've corrected that now for Crimbo and have been playing it at some length so far. The big question is; what does our resident Russia Expert™ think of it?

First of all, I'm impressed by the attention to detail in the setting, it seems as though Raven did a lot of research on the theme they were going for, perhaps even going on location for some references. The cliches aforementioned are there, but mostly they make sense anyway, Soviets certainly liked to have statues of Lenin everywhere (as demonstrated by the amount that fell all over Ukraine recently). The propaganda posers and films are great, having seen some Soviet movies about the West during the Cold War, they hit the mark right down to the rhetoric and the style of artwork used. I have to frown at the faux cyrillic stuff that rears it's ugly head though, I think it's obvious what a sign reading "КАТОРГА-12" says rather than having nonsense like "КАТФЯGA" (KATFYAGA...?!). Also the English translations on some notices and banners are out of place, sure you want people to be able to read them but it's unrealistic since no "English speaking capitalist pig dogs" would set foot on the island.

Gameplay wise, to begin with it was just a straight shooter (some dodgy hitboxes, I shot a guy in the head TWICE and he still carried on shooting me in the face...wat) and then eventually you get the centrepiece of the game, the Time Manipulation Device or TMD and things get interesting. I must admit I spent a good 30 minutes renewing and aging things, it's a bit gimmicky since you can only age things that have had contact with E-99 but the animations are superb and really capture the process perfectly:

At one point I had to age that crate, stick it under a garage door and then renew it so it pushed the door up enough to be able to crawl through, pretty clever stuff.. I look forward to more of that sort of thing. the TMD also upgrades such as being able to force enemies backwards or age them so they go into slow motion and you can kill them easily. You're also able to pick objects up and hurl them at enemies, certainly useful when the mutant Spetsnaz try to throw an explosive barrel at you and you catch it and throw it back at them... how does that napalm taste, tovarisch?!

There's a lot of nice touches to the environments, such as being able to open draws to read hidden notes, play with telephones, typewriters and microphones and listen to audio recordings of the Island going to Hell, and some creepy kids toys audio that will unsettle you if you press them... The school is particularly nicely done, similar to F.E.A.R. 2'S elementary although much much shorter. There's a good contrast between locations as you time travel between one point in two different zones, the difference between old and new again.

The storyline is a bit skew whiff, at one point you go back in time and save some guy who ends up being a tyrant and killing one of the good guys so you go back and kill them. Perhaps I had the option to let them die originally or something I don't know... it just seemed a bit rushed. There's also some chick who's British but wears an Orthodox cross round her neck.. *shrugs*

So all in all, so far so good really, I shall report back on what happens next when it uhhh... happens.

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The latest bot is from Kiev, fucking Ukrainians at it now!

I got some fancy things for my car, plus Singularity.. you guys might remember that one, I've still yet to play it so stay tuned for my updates in the Now Playing thread!

Guardians Of The Galaxy.

Loved it! Really reminded me of The Fifth Element which is also really awesome, some good one liners in there.. "They got my dick message..!"

What esspho said, stick with it because things just get better and better and Skyler isn't in it as much as she is in earlier episodes.

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God, I wish she died.

Well it's funny you should say that...

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...because she doesn't

Cerry Mhristmas!!!

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No... that's the whole point dude! That it's NK!

It's fucking ridiculous that in 2014, we still have dictators in this little blue sphere of a planet of ours. Most of us have learnt from the mistakes of our fathers, and those who havent, deserve nothing less than being ridiculed.

I don't disagree that we shouldn't be bullied by dictators and all that but it wouldn't have hurt the film's chances if it had been a made-up country that was based on NK or had a fictional North Korean leader. It's what happens usually in these kind of films, US president assasination plots feature a fictional president usually not the actual person serving at the time. People talk about Team America World Police, but back then NK didn't have the same capabilities it does today, things have changed and not for the better. Also take into account that Sony is a Japanese company and NK is strongly against Japan because of the imperial history and occupation of the Peninsula. If Sony was so focused on making a film about the current leader of NK, they should have stuck to their guns and released it, if they didn't want this kind of attention, they should have gone for the fictional dictatorship option.

Kinda in a state of disbelief that this is headline news at the moment, ridiculous to think that all this fuss is happening because of a movie. Sony made a stupid move, bending over and taking it hard in a betrayal of the freedom of expression we can enjoy. Yet, I think all this could have been avoided had they used a made-up country that was based on NK or had a fictional North Korean leader than wasn't the current head of a Batshit crazy oppressive regime.

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what? you guys didn't click for bitchz?

I got that PM too

I use GLQuake but Nehahra has it's own engine so that doesn't help. There's a Darkplaces version but it looks really ugly when you turn the gamma up

I just watched The Seal Of Nehahra again, I forgot how long it is... 4 bloody hours! It's still a masterpiece though. I'm trying to play the mod now but it's stupidly dark and I can't change the brightness

It worked! Thanks a lot!.. I tried that before and it just loaded the purple screen... how did the windows 8 app activate? he's using windows 8.1...

My dad went to use Google Chrome on his PC today and found that it had completely changed, gone is the old browser window ala Firefox (which is what I use) and now it seems like it's turned into an app and gone full retard! Sometimes it just loads a purple screen and does nothing so I have to kill it and other times it loads the grey screen with the icons on the bottom left. Opening the chrome icon loads up the browser but some of the settings are missing like the old tools menu. Another issue is the desktop shortcuts he's had to various sites for years no longer work, they just load up the damn start box! How is everyone else who uses Chrome finding this? Is there anyway to go back to just having the browser? It gives me a bloody headache, I hope Mozilla don't do this!

Is that.... all brushwork?!

Don't push yourself to do it if your heart isn't in it, there's nothing worse than feeling like you have to work when you're not up to it or your mind is elsewhere. The important thing is to have fun, if you're finding it a chore, stop and do something else. I recommend learning to texture if you don't already have experience with that, I find balancing between texturing and mapping keeps me focused.

Never liked LOTR much, so not bothered about The Hobbit films.. I'll watch them when they're on tv or if a DVD goes on at a friend's house.

Just done with Homeland episode 10...

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Poor Fara