Posts by Sentura

  • How Gearbox canceled Duke 3D: Reloaded

    Quote from Vilham

    So basically this guy is taking other peoples licences and attempting to make money off them?


    Schreiber is now working on an updated version of Rise of the Triad

    This has literally just been done and what right does he think he has to take that IP and do that anyway?


    If you read the article, it says non-commercial license. As in, it was to be a full conversion type mod released for free (also explicitly stated in the article). As for Rise of the Triad, Apogee has had the license for a number of years, which is why they decided to market it in the first place. Neither of these licenses have been infringed upon or otherwise treated unlawfully, regardless of what people think/assume/hear rumors about.

  • What are you playing now?

    Been playing Divekick, and honestly it's just damn good fun. Probably the best fighting game I've ever played (even though I LOVE SFIV). It's really fighting reduced to reads and simple moves.


    If anyone wants to play hit me up on steam, sentura

  • Borderlands 2

    Playing with friends definitely made the experience more fun. Towards the end of our play session we were having a blast fighting and dying to robots. I was playing the ninja dude, and his one liners are the cheesiest shit ever, which just made it even more hilarious.

  • Gone Home

    They are contemporary themes, but that does not automatically warrant the game as good for using them. Step back and look at American Beauty (the movie). It did everything Gone Home set out to do, and it did them right. The difference in medium really doesn't matter here as it is one narrative versus another. It chooses to push an agenda of meaningful narrative rather than simply presenting the player/observer with an intimate, but ultimately empty story of a runaway.


    And, I'm sorry, but yes, a story needs a moral to function. Having one without is pointless.

  • Gone Home

    You know that most works of art, even some classified as bad at least provide a moral to a story, right? Like a hidden message that's supposed to make you understand at least something about why you were listening/reading the first place, right? The narrative in this game has none. Saying it shouldn't be deep is obnoxious, every story needs a moral to function, otherwise it's pointless. I think we can agree that the narrative in this game is the main focus, right? So we're focusing on something that is pointless.


    This is my frustration, spelled out. A slice of life is mundane, that's why people don't tell stories as slices of life, but rather as epics with suspense and idealized characters. They're role models of virtue for people. Everyone already lives their own slice of life, and while a change of perspective is nice, when that happens, it too does carry a moral usually - in this case, it does not.

  • Gone Home

    I finished it. I didn't like it. The story and narrative felt shallow and contemporary rather than meaningful and interesting. Everything got overshadowed by just one of the family members really, the rest were mundanely revealed by the end. Like Mazy said, this is probably "mature" for american standards, but it is really not putting anything on the table than providing a look into contemporary society from a perspective of a single family. I wish I could say it would be on par with American Beauty in that sense, but sadly it isn't. It provides no insights into human nature or anything else than a shoddy narrative without moral.


    I wish I could get my money back.

  • Sleep

    Quote from Thrik

    There have been many late nights I've had trying and failing to come up with some programming solution, only to find the next day I have it instantly.


    excessive learning/adaptation takes sleep to work out. subconscious thinking is blooming while you sleep, so even though you think you may be dreaming, you brain may actually be computing a thousand of different scenarios of how to solve a problem to find a way of doing it.


    also my point with the previous post was: if you don't break your REM cycles, you can wake up and feel rested fairly fast. If you do break them, you're only fucking yourself over.

  • Sleep

    For some reason my REM sleep is synced up in intervals of 4. I can sleep 4/8/12/16 hours and wake up perfectly fresh. If I break this rhythm my body gets fucked, especially my stomach. It seems very similar to how much tiredness scale works as well, I have these peaks of tiredness where I can just fall asleep very easy because I'm exhausted, but outside of those I'll have to lie in bed for a while before something happens.