Posts by blackdog

I haven't seen it, I could guess from trailers but can't remember the title of the movie I'm thinking

Guess I'm the only one that has found these episodes quite average. First one in particular. I understand though that they have to touch base with all the main characters and storylines to refresh people memories.

That's not to say that they had very impressive visual pieces in there.

Yeah sorry, I just realised today ? Just looked up an image for something I just watched

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Yeah I know it's about sound proofing, they enforced "the hat rule" as well for the purpose, but I still think is quite stupid.

I don't think a player, who is considering all the variables he's normally considering, can also pay attention to commentators and act on that. The coach is a bit different, but they can't give tactical advice until a break from what I understand so…

I've updated the previous post with the whole final re-run.

Anyway great matches, is not making me think to much about the money I lost betting on SK, I was planning on paying for my flights to Canada

This was the tournament of the upsets!

First Faze doesn't even make the playoffs, SK gets kicked out by the most underdog team, Astralis also eliminated by the underdog team… haven't been able to watch much, but from what I've seen some teams had really stepped up their game. Astralis in semi-final were so dominant you wouldn't imagine would be shut down equally well the following game.

Anyway, GG; here's the re-run of the final

I don't like the opposing booth, not with all the glass insulating the teams. What's the point for people to be there to support.

Quote from RaVaGe

5 hours ago, RaVaGe said: What's your point ? It has nothing to do with other people living shitty lives, I was just saying that being famous and successfull doesn't mean you can't get in a severe depression and commit suicide. Like what, you have money so you can't be unhappy ahah wtf.

I'm not saying that if you're famous you can't get depressed or you will always be happy :-| I'm saying that they have all the tools at their disposal to get out of their state so is quite annoying to see them giving up.

Quote from FrieChamp

5 hours ago, FrieChamp said: Chester Bennington was pretty open about his depression that was caused by sexual abuse when he was a kid and his attempts to get over it with drugs that only lead to more problems. I find it hard to believe that you were going through the same kind of experience when you didnt like your job in web development anymore. I think you dont understand what depression means at all.

I haven't compared whatever I felt to what Chester was feeling, i don't know how you are jumping to such conclusion. I was replying to @laminutederire and discussion was on a while other level of abstraction.

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47 minutes ago, Squad said: You're talking about two different things here: 1) not being able to be seen 2) not being able to be heard. Related to the same bug, but that's about it.

Sorry, I don't see how I am doing that, I've only talked about the sound aspect. I've said from the first post that it's up to Valve to decide what needs to be kept of this player interaction.

And I've said that personally the sound aspect should stay, while the perspective (see/be seen) needs to be fixed.

What I'm trying to explain is that a player can use this interaction without gaining an advantage, that is if you are not considering as bugged both implications of crouching and jumping (view and sound). For a better explanation watch 3dklikphilip video, when he mentions the possibility of which hunt.

Quote from RaVaGe

1 hour ago, RaVaGe said: Sorry but you have no clue about what you're talking about, and the way you say that is proving what i've said before, you relate happiness with money and sucess, and that's probably because you don't have it. But you can't fight depression with money, on it's own money is useless, it's just a tool you use to get the things you want, but when you're depressed, you want nothing.

Showing up at work or not doesn't change a thing, or just make it worse, it's their passion and most of the time their whole life, it has nothing related to your usual 5/7 a week 8 hours job.

Sorry, i imagine that you personally know many stars in depression?

I know that people are depressed because their job is shit. Because they don't have a job at all.

I know that if you are an artist and struggling to create what you love, you get depressed.

The thing is if an artist of this caliber is facing problems, he's not fighting for survival when he's trying to write a song, he/she can take some time off to feed their creativity... while the blu collar with children and a pregnant wife sweating his ass in a foundry, is literally fighting for his life (dangerous job) and his family (putting food on the table).

Their passion is their job so don't give me the "this has nothing to do with their job" because has a very lot to do.

How many athletes are committing suicide after getting injured and not being able to do what they love anymore? Shouldnt a race driver kill himself would he become handicapped? Read about the amazing stuff that Alex Zanardi has done after losing his legs.

Sorry for being stereotypical, but I believe a lot has to do with the kind of life style these people choose to live.

Maybe if this people were less self-centered they would realise that they could do a lot and different things, to improve other people lives, leading to also improve theirs.

@laminutederire im finding what you are writing worrying, you are either not depressed but leading yourself into it, or depressed and should do something about it.

Regarding your example from before, it is wrong because depression is not leading to evolution so of course -if you look at the natural world- living beings would isolate those. Like cancer you don't want it to spread.

Also I find the "educated" argument a bit offensive. I don't have a degree and worked a low level job for the last four years, still I'm aware of the big problems of the world, it is offensive to suggest that successful people are killing themselves "because they see the bad of the world". What are all the activists and volunteers of so many charities on so many levels doing then? I actually dropped out of my studies and found repulsion in Web design/development because I was feeling I was becoming an instrument of consumism, that I would just end up promoting useless stuff that ruins the beautiful world, build tools like Facebook that are becoming time sinkers for most people. I was feeling quite depressed, if I had to self-analyse. I packed my bag and did something else.

I loved most of their music and reading that he was dead saddened me. Then I read he suicide and I got annoyed/angry.

If suicide shouldn't be a taboo why don't we start writing and describing things as they are instead of going for the easy clickbait-instalike post on Facebook.

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On 21/07/2017 at 4:28 PM, RaVaGe said: Well that's the problem, western societies correlates fame/wealth with happiness, people only see the success, but fail to see the shit that famous people have to get trough to stay at their level.

It's always a question of balance, and when you reach this kind of level of fame and sucess, there is always a huge counterpart to pay.

Quote from laminutederire

On 21/07/2017 at 0:54 PM, laminutederire said: That's an interesting perspective, however it also shows that the society fights each and every mutated cell with every chance it's got. This prevents evolution among the society and keeps it perfectly in its current state. Issue is that the current state isn't perfect and not allowing it to be questioned is an impending disaster.

Sorry but that's very wrong concept. A mutated cell would be like a cancer and isolating/destroying it prevents it to spread, if anything.

I'm not saying we have to isolate depressed people at all, my auntie went through it and took pills etc, just that you are making the wrong example.

Sorry for being not supportive on this but I don't get this. Yes stars go through a lot of pressure and are under the microscope for every action (their life is invaded constantly and that's why I've always said paparazzi can't be protected by the same laws that protect a journalist, they are not journalists)... but I don't accept people like Cornell or Chester killing themselves. They have millions in their banks and unlike us they can not show up at work if they don't feel like. They have all the tools to tackle their problems early so I'm not up to mourn their deaths.

Looks like we are getting a good Thornton finally, although I'm not fan of Guardians and this looks very much along the lines

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On 21/07/2017 at 11:13 PM, grapen said: But you're peeking fully knowing the opponent won't be able to see you, the pros are well aware of the difference between a regular jump and a bugged crouch jump. The outcome is the same as standing behind a one-way nodraw, you know it's not fair play or the intended design.

Not really, say I know the T are sneaking into Inferno B and I want to climb up the crates, to reposition... not necessarily I need/want to peek but just don't want them to hear me.

I was asking about location cos first thing I thought, if was an estate could have been a drug lord backstory.

You could change one bomb site, put a bus and say terrorists are cutting off a bunch of US tourists to then keep them hostage.

Does US have an embassy there? One bomb site could be to destroy the entrance or something.

Or generally they might want to make a coup and they are destroying symbols of current government.

I know is just very early but seems a bit dark and with too long shadows that make it noisy and more difficult to spot enemies.

Also consider a name change as there's this unwritten(?) rule of not using real name locations (to avoid backlash)

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8 hours ago, grapen said: Edit: I realized my post came off condescending, that wasn't my intention. What I'm saying is that while Valve ought to fix it, organizers have some responsibility in maintaining fair play, and the bug is game breaking, being able to peek unseen. That is huge. Instead of gentlemans agreements, just ban the use of it. I don't see it as any different than the overpass pixelwalk.

It is a bit different: pixel walk or looking through textures in inaccessible areas can only be performed to abuse the game, while jump is basic movement and you can use it for simply landing silently (which I don't see as a problem) or to peek.

I'm not sure what kind of referee system is in place, but I think to penalize these behaviors, CS scoring should be changed radically, made more abstract and not just internal to the game (eg, rounds won/lost are important and referee can remove rounds for penalty or remove some money from a team).

Cool trailer, waiting to see proper gameplay though. Done this way makes you think they're entering in Wolfenstein's territory…

I don't understand if is free only for this weekend or forever.

Mine is updating, but I don't think I care, I think was only MP content? I would have paid for SP.

Would have loved to work with SnapMap but the system is really too restricting. I've played couple maps by very skilled authors (from whom I've seen impressive HL2 maps) and they just looked like same areas from the game with different spawns.

What would be really cool would be a system like Portal's simplified editor: I would love to build rooms and layouts the way I want, and dropping props all over. Rooms could have "themes" and be pre-textured. At least I would need streatchable "snaps" (whatever the parts are called) because when I tried to build a map I just couldn't close a loop because of a small gap (horizontal and vertical) between corridors ?

Well is a CS bug, I think is a Valve problem. Yes a tournament could ban it I imagine, but not when the tournament is underway. From the video below seems is covered in the rules (allowed).

Personally I think it doesn't need to be completely fixed, I mean it can be another feature that people that train to pull it off can do it. If Valve wants to keep the silent jump as a feature, they have to address the perspective problem that allows unfair peeking.