Posts by blackdog

Quote from FMPONE

15 hours ago, FMPONE said: Yeah; Apple is capitalism at its best and worst. They make fantastic, incredible products that have changed the world. The products also tend to be composed of rare earth minerals from crazy Chinese mines assembled in factories where, despite meager efforts to make life livable for the workers, people still run at fifth floor windows as if they’re on fire and giant vertical heights are like a cold tub of water; to such an extent that they had to install nets below the buildings.

It’s not easy to use this technology and be oblivious to the fact that it’s absolutely amazing and insane and of course can only exist through magnificent unseen cruelty. But that’s not an Apple thing, that’s a “life in the modern world” thing. When it all crumbles we can’t be too upset, this wasn’t ever going to be a stable foundation. Might as well rock the Air Pods while life is good, the writing is on the wall.

I'm impressed with wireless charging... the technology just gets more and more magical.

Not to minimise what happens in China, but you ever heard of the conflict minerals? I remember seeing a few years ago a reportage on a specific African region where there was a continuous conflict for the mines. Warlords would take over, then (corrupted) government, and they would cycle. If I remember correctly was an area at countries border so neighbouring states were also chipping in to expand over that area.

I can't find that reportage but here's a primer, also this paper toppled my google search https://academic.oup.com/sp/article/25/4/545/5251792

Uncharted #vibes

Quote from Radu

4 hours ago, Radu said: "Rebellion Boss: Epic ‘Paying Through the Nose’ to Build Its Store, It’s Fantastic; I Was Impressed by Their Offer"

https://wccftech.com/rebellion-boss…the-nose-store/

Drinks on @Beck! ?

Quote from [HP]

12 hours ago, [HP] said: I do not mean to cause a apple vs samsung argument, we're better than that. Use whatever you want bro, you can use Nokia for all I care, lmao. But, Apple did admit to slown down older phones when new iPhone models come out: https://www.wired.com/story/apple-iphone-battery-slow-down/

Throughout the years, I've owned 4 iPhones and 2 Galaxy phones. I remenber I switched to galaxy because I was getting frustrated that all my iPhones were getting slow af after about a year or so. My Samsung s5 lasted for nearly 5 years, perfectly too so the notion that only Apple supports older phones is not true either. (I have a S8+ now, i love that the battery lasts for about 2 days)

For my lightweight use, my iPhone 7+ lasts 2 days as well. I really like the galaxy lineup from S8 onwards, Samsung got their shit together in terms of design since then, but like I said, they are slow to update to newer releases, and they only seem to do it on flagship (same LG or any other Android except for the niche one that want to leverage the geek crowd like 1+).

From what I’ve seen people saying, Androids get slower much faster than iPhones, not sure why but even the Pixel was a victim… that’s why phone Android makers boast ridiculous amount of ram, cmon, hows a phone in need than more ram than a gaming PC? ?

anyway what you reported is somewhat arguable/debatable: they say it’s for battery life, and to be fair my iPhone 5s still lasts a day of normal use, and now that I use it as an iPod (airplane mode, only WiFi and Bluetooth active while at work to stream to my headphones) it lasts several days.

anyway not saying iPhone is better, I have considered switching to Android couple times already, just overall iPhone seems quicker to have up and running. There’s never gonna be a perfect phone

Quote from Pericolos0

7 hours ago, Pericolos0 said: You'd probably like this: https://pi-hole.net/

I have a raspberry pi sitting next to my router, dilligently blocking all ads and tracking before they can even reach my pc or phone, its awesome! Makes browing fster too because the ads don't even get to load

also, to stay in the spirit of the thread: I bought a house!

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Congrats! ? we found the place where to do the next Mapcore meet-up lol

Ive heard about the Pi-hole before, really interesting project… what’s the situation with all those websites that force ads on you to work? Many of them pop up a message to enable ads… does this system bypass the problem and leave them accessible? (Does Pi-hole trick them into think the ad is being delivered?). I use Brave Broweser for reducing the ad footprint but I incur in this kind of problems. It also makes it hard to play a video on anything but YouTube ?

And Kawhi left already, not happening again soon ?

Quote from [HP]

16 hours ago, [HP] said: Until a few firmware updates down the road, then it becomes a useless brick. Apple ain't getting me again because of that bs.

What you mean? Apple is the only phone maker that has been supporting very old phones (my 5s still getting updates). Androids are good for three years, and you are likely to get updates only if buying a flagship (my gf’s Samsung A3 never got any update to a new Android).

Also it seems Apple is the only company somehow being serious about protecting your data.

I can’t say I like iOS, at least I find it very boring, there are many quirks they do to keep you in their ecosystem I hate, but it feels that if you don’t get a Pixel or 1+ you are gonna get fucked over.

W00t patrol ?

Quote from Howw3

8 hours ago, Howw3 said: The map Im creating for the contest is inspired by one of the DLC maps for Infinite Warfare called Neon, which takes place in a Virtual Realm. Honestly the COD games especially the future ones have very creative map themes.

Yeah I noticed your map… the virtual world was another theme I had in mind as something to possibly work on. Haven’t seen the COD map tho.

Love the stylised overview map, despite not being on current guidelines, it’s clear and pretty

Oh I didn’t realise remedy had fallen in the honey pot as well. Another 1-year exclusive

https://www.polygon.com/2019/3/20/1827…-worlds-control

Quote from Zarsky

43 minutes ago, Zarsky said: Everything else except the janky animation makes me very excited. We need more bizarre games like this.

Yep I’ve been saying it at every occasion. With all the money they have at disposal I can’t figure out why they still haven’t sorted this problem after so many years.

Quote from Plantello

7 hours ago, Plantello said: Plus, water is kind of finicky anyways. It's pretty glitchy at times, and it slows people, and it splashes loudly when landed in... It affects the balance as well as the asthetics. My map used to include water in important areas, but bots handled it poorly and it was generally unpleasant to be playing around.

Well Canals, and Aztec before it, have it, and the fact you can hear the players splashing is kinda the point. I can agree that at the point where we are now, it might get a bit in the way… although I simply imagined that, being set in Cornwall, in a port, and knowing how much the tide retracts, the map would feature very low water, so it wouldn’t slow players down. You could also have that there are dry and wet paths. @text_fish has those platforms on both sides so I figured if there was water would have been up to where the overview says 6-7 seconds.

It’s not happening anyway so not a problem

Quote from text_fish

On 6/11/2019 at 1:58 PM, text_fish said: I'm continuing to make good progress on my asset list, working my way up to some of the more complicated props such as a pirate statue and an ice-cream stand, both of which will test various of my skills hopefully.

In the meantime, I started playing around with Terri's Auto Radar gizmo yesterday and it got me re-evaluating cover and some of the sightlines, so I had a fitful night of very little sleep trying not to think about it, then made some big changes when I got up this morning. Here's the current radar, with some rough timings:

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Can auto-radar automatically crosshatch overlapping areas somehow? I couldn't see an obvious way in the guide, but perhaps I was looking for the wrong thing.

I've deleted a bunch of lazy blockwork in the top right corner of the map above bombsite B which is why it currently looks like a large empty expanse (it is), so redesigning that is next on my agenda layout-wise and once that's done I might be ready to pop it up on the workshop.

So is mid all water then? Seems very cool if it comes out the way I’m imagining it

Quote from Radu

1 hour ago, Radu said: I vote to rename this thread as blackdog's thread and occasional vilham

Just Dog’s Black Cause

Sorry, since JC2 I’ve been enjoying the series a lot, so was well hyped. Also thought to remember more fans in here for previous entries.

Uh oh, JC4 completely fell off the radar for me after seeing the mixed reviews/negative comments. This just popped in front of me

Can’t believe how many of the themes that I kicked around in my head are coming to fruition ?

Best of luck, already looking great!

Considering the feedback, to keep the name/theme you could have the game play around a submarine. Maybe this is a secret base, possibly underwater or partly underwater where the government is building a submarine. You could have the bombsites built around the idea they are different labs/workshops, so for eg one site they are assembling the (nuclear) engine, the other the front but where they have the launch system (so the whole base could be blown up because you are destroying the torpedos).

This would help you in creating a layout that feels grounded, as to assemble these parts the workshops need to be pretty much lined up with a logic that would make easy to assemble the front-main hull-tail. Could be a sequential assemble, so workshops are lined up, or maybe stacked, with the idea that certain parts would be lifted/lowered into another workshop.

Or change theme completely and build something like this underwater restaurant.

https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-an…s-a8833366.html

New season, new Attenborough! ??