Quote from D3adsOn 6/21/2017 at 0:53 PM, D3ads said: ????
that was one of hte most unhinged things i have ever seen posted here (lucky for you you had to compete with white supremacy).
just to your point of no other words existing for prejudice against religions thus islamophobia doesn't exist, 'antisemitism' exists.
okay i'm out fuck this too many crazy people here
Quote from Sprony3 hours ago, Sprony said: Please define what cyberpunk is supposed to be because now I'm confused. Serious question btw, I'm not trolling you.
It's an image of the future portrayed through a punk ethos, meaning it focuses on the issues of systemic oppression, late capitalism, and class, as well as race, gender, sexuality, and so on. It's much more than the "neon slums" aesthetic (and isn't necessarily that aesthetic),
2 hours ago, [HP] said: All the more reasons why I'm curious about how the story might develop drywall, right?
I mean, Cyberpunk has been stationary for a while, and its formula kept unchanged, so much so that you're being conservative about the fact of playing around with its blueprint, and give it a diferent spin.
The need to come up with a new name for a sub-genre might come up, if it really prooves to be a problem, who knows, but my point being that just because a game, movie or book deviates from the foundation of its very genre, it doesn't mean it shouldn't exist based solo on that critic, imho. We don't even know what the story will be like, so we have no grounds to be dismissive of it so rapidly.
Don't get me wrong, I'm talking about this because it is interesting to me. I'm just pedantic about the whole -punk part of cyberpunk since I'm a fan of the genre. I just see too much cyberpunk that misses the attitude of punk (and my god, we need more punk in games in this post-THPS world 
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imo there should be a different genre for not-quite-cyberpunk. Lots of stuff is falling into it recently.
I don't mean to say the game shouldn't exist, I'm worried about it not being good! Again, I've seen way too much weak cyberpunk recently.
If the dev has really changed, that's cool (being a jerk isn't cool), but as it stands I'm wary of what it's going to be.
@blackdog here's just a like from googling "The Matrix Transgender", but it sums up the analysis well: http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2017/04/10/the…dysphoria-blues
I would go further to say cyberpunk isn't about a totalitarianism, it's more about capitalism and the ideas of oppression under it. And that is the issue behind right-wing cyberpunk: only the idea of being oppressed exists, but is limited due to the right's belief in economic freedom. Oppression makes less sense if you can simply work harder and escape it, so right-wing cyberpunk (and often centrist, though centrist cyberpunk often hinges on the debate of violence in protest) doesn't focus on the reasons for oppression, but the oppression itself.
Quote from blackdog5 hours ago, blackdog said: Well this is… awkward. What you say is 180° degrees different from my understanding of what happened.
Maybe it just wasn't as huge over there as it was in the US then? Sorry if that's the case! It was so massive here that I am surprised to see confusion about it, lol.
Quote from D3ads3 hours ago, D3ads said: Gamergate was and still is about pushing back against identity politics in video games. Back in the day of Quinn it was specifically about feminism with all the ridiculous claims about sexism and misogyny by people like Anita Sarkeesian through misrepresentation of facts and outright lies, we covered all that extensively here. Of course the media mainly focused on a minority of trolls making abusive comments and threats (which were and always will be condemned) and deliberately ignored the actual point of the movement in order to facilitate the agenda of the ever virtuous regressive left.
Tim hasn't said anything that isn't true, feminism has become a parody of it's former self bleating on about non-existent things like the wage gap, the ever present yet totally invisible "patriarchy" and blaming everything on "straight white men". It's no longer about equality.. Hell I don't even know what it's about anymore... Anyway none of the issues that women face in real life has anything to do with video games.. 50% of gamers are female.. Achievement unlocked: EQUALITY!
I subscribe to mundanematt, he talks about the issues with feminism I mentioned, Black Lives Matter (a racist bullshit movement) and Islamism/Islamist terrorism which to those paying attention to the world is something to be concerned with. It's the reason why kids in my country were blown to pieces at a pop concert but people are more concerned with "Islamaphobia".. Just listen to anything that Maajid Nawaz and Ayaan Hirsi Ali have to say on the subject...
Not to get too far completely unrelated politics here...
What did Anita Sarkeesian lie about? She simply said there's a tendency to portray women in video games as negative stereotypes, and showed examples of such stereotypes. The wage gap exists, here's some statistics http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Gender_pay_gap_statistics. Feminists portraying straight white men as the enemy is a stereotype that you've been sold. Women (and LGBTQ+ people, people of color, etc) just want more positive portrayals of themselves in games, that's all.
Of course Gamergate was portrayed as negative, it was started over a non-existent review of a video game. The big buzzword was "Objective reviews," a concept that does not, and is impossible to exist.
Okay, if you're going to use the "in my country" card to be against a whole religion, let me tell you about what's going on here: A year ago, a black man was shot and killed after being pulled over by police. There's a trial about it going on right now. That was one of many police shootings that happened that summer. But yeah BLM blocked a freeway so they're the REAL racists. (Really you don't want to say this shit to me, please learn the historical context behind this stuff)
Yes, terrorism is a problem, but not one that is solved by returning hatred with hatred (we've been trying to do that for decades now!). Why do you think this is happening? Anyone can be radicalized. That's enough on that because I'm really not interested in talking about this shit here.
Point is, cyberpunk has always been on the left, that's what punk has always been, it doesn't work if it isn't about progressive politics. It's no coincidence that one of the most notable examples of cyberpunk is The Matrix, directed by two trans women, and often used as an allegory for being transgender. I'm worried that this game (as well as practically every big cyberpunk game as of late) doesn't understand that.
12 hours ago, [HP] said: I was like, who the fuck is mundanematt, I completely forgot about that guy, but if he triggers people I like him already.
Look at his channel, his videos are about video games, right wing politics, and enforcing stereotypes of feminists, black people, muslims, and so on. Maybe don't say literal racism is good??
Quote from blackdog5 hours ago, blackdog said: So from what I understand, and until it's more clear what the game is about, I stand by my belief that was a smart PR stunt to get noticed.
So we can't trust what a game developer actually, literally, says their game is about? It's a smart marketing move to associate yourself with a harassment campaign literally started by someone's abusive ex-boyfriend??
are we about to fucking say "gamergate wasn't so bad" are we really posting fucking mundanematt videos? christ
really hoping nintendo announces something tomorrow, if they dropped mario maker i'd be super happy. if nintendo's real as fuck though they'll announce a new wave race or 1080
It's been more than that, he's kinda been a piece of shit to a lot of people.
Besides that even, how do you even make a cyberpunk story where "the FEMINAZIS have taken over!!"? To do that is to ignore what cyberpunk even is. Cyberpunk is specifically about the exact things Gamergate fought against, which is to say it's about systemic oppression, the issues of late capitalism, so on and so forth. It's like making a Deus Ex game that goes "Actually, the NSF were the bad guys", like what is it going to say? Equality is bad?
Quote from knj4 minutes ago, knj said: Hahaha Same here dude, just woke up for - in my mind - the best E3 conf, and that was it?! WTF
Going back to XBOX conf it was really good, but I am really really confused what is the point of having like 3 different versions of the same console? I' really getting lost here. I understand that with X they are going super fast, strong hardware, but if that is the case, what is the S version, and who will buy it - if you can have X which is the strongest?
At 2/5 of the price, I'm thinking about getting an S (mostly for backwards compatibility lmao). The X is just plain expensive for an unproven product. The PS4 Pro doesn't seem like it's doing all that well, and the X is probably not going to do much better with its price and position in the market. They play the same games, and that's all most people care about, they just want the thing what plays fifa.
why does every game have a super blown-out sky and under-exposed ground now? It's a bad look.
Quote from VulgarmanOn 3/31/2017 at 4:39 AM, Vulgarman said: Diversity is great, until someone different comes along. Then tolerance gets thrown out by some because they're upset.
Funny how that works. It's almost an argument for homogenization.
Obviously drywall would rather I shut up or left. He doesn't believe in diversity! Strange!
just seeing you calling me out now (fuck you btw)
yes, I would rather you shut up and leave if you're going to put words in my mouth.
diversity means being accepted for your circumstances, what gender you identify as, sexual preference, skin color, etc. being a dick isn't any of those. instead of spouting the same old catchphrases, try thinking for yourself. it may fill the void in your life that you hoped trump would fill.
also next time you call me out, at least quote me so i get a notification.
Quote from Vulgarman2 hours ago, Vulgarman said: Over twenty pages of shitting and kvetching about trump, I'll make up for that with a nuclear fireworks display for Trump winning. Half of America who gave a shit voted for the guy, you'd think someone would have said something positive sooner.
trump's victory was months ago at this point, when does the celebration end and the presidency begin?
love too have a meme-based meltdown on a level design forum because i support the president with the lowest approval rating ever
Could it be a missing cubemap or something? Missing detail map?
Quote from wrakki1 hour ago, wrakki said: Man it really sucks that everyone is hating on Canals, it's as if they are forgetting what Overpass was when it was first released.
The map is a GIANT unconventional cluster-fuck right now, and I think that's great! From what I've played of it I think the reason for this is that Valve just threw together all their ideas and, based on feedback, will remove the ones which turn out to be bad and tweak the map until it is considered competitively viable by some of the people who play this game at a high level. Hell, even if the map stays the way it is forever, I don't mind playing a crazy map every now and then just for fun.
I do think they could have put it into the Beta client first though, to remove the game breaking bugs at least.
I think you're demonstrating why CS:GO kinda sucks: every map has to be competitively viable for 5v5 play. Otherwise, no one will play a map because it's too risky for their rank. Less conventional maps will then only be played in casual, which is stuck at 10v10 and is way worse than the standard 5v5. Then there would be absolutely no need for a new map to ship in a beta client, no one's rank would be risked by playing a potentially broken map.
Canals feels weirdly flat and lifeless, particularly around CT. the lighting is kinda gross (the skybox seems mad blown out), as well as the general color scheme (think if this looked like Sapienza in Hitman, that'd be super rad). Feels like a step back from Inferno. Lots of repeated textures, like at A site, the tower just looks bad. It's like they forgot to make a displacements and decals entirely. Some sightlines feel way too long. It feels really unfinished.
I had a few issues with the left joycon before I updated them, but haven't used them in the same setting since. I'm usually sitting like 2 feet from my switch while it's docked.
crowbcat videos aren't evidence of anything but them being a baby about video games. given enough of other people's videos and the magic tool of cinema called the "jump cut", you can prove anything, like how mafia 3 is a terrible broken game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZokdmzvDGA, how the Xbox Elite Controllers were all broken: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Gzj0f9SrBs, how the PS4 Pro was broken: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6__TvBzAVj8, how the Xbox One was broken: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu7jHLsW-5s, or how the PS4 was totally broken: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FwlK-jU8Yg crazy that all those were complete failures
Quote from grapenOn 2/24/2017 at 9:49 AM, grapen said: Excellent link, didn't know this existed. Have some testing to do =)
I ask because of what Cliffe had to say about this picture:
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"The reason you're seeing those models render is because models of similarity (that share textures) were combined in order to reduce draw calls. We measured the peformance of the map before and after this optimization and it resulted in a 40% average framerate boost. While looking at this it may seem counter intuitive but currently in the engine the number of entities is of far greater importance than the number of polygons you're rendering"
I just found this very interesting and would like to know more about best practices in Source, theoretically.
I'm going to guess that it's running into a CPU cache bottleneck with more entities due to the dated entity design of Source (in addition to regular drawcall bottlenecking). More modern engines keep the positions, meshes, materials, so on, of every entities in their own arrays (as opposed to grouping all of them together into classes or structs) to keep processing arrays fast.
