Posts by text_fish

  • POTUS 2016

    Quote from Vorontsov

    5 minutes ago, Vorontsov said: Sprony these aren't even arguments, how well people bullshit their speech is a very trivial non-issue :/

    Umm. Arguably 125,000,000 people just cast their vote based on how well people bullshitted their speech! Hardly trivial. It's also interesting that more individuals actually voted for Clinton than Trump, so I guess she's the better bullshitter, but that was obvious in all the debates.

  • POTUS 2016

    Quote from Vorontsov

    30 minutes ago, Vorontsov said: You're trying to compare an outsider billionaire, to a proven criminal?

    Lol. Hilary Clinton has never been convicted of a crime. Of course that doesn't mean she hasn't actually committed any crimes, but it's a bit of a risky comparison to draw when Donald Trump's legal affairs actually require their own wikipedia page. We don't yet know what Trump will be like as a president, but personally I don't think any morally good person can defend a politician who will brazenly talk about banning an entire religion from their country.

    P.S. To clarify, I don't like Clinton either, but America's broken democracy is another debate.

  • POTUS 2016

    Quote from dux

    2 minutes ago, dux said: Brexit isn't even on the same SCALE as electing a fascist as a leader of the most powerful country on the face of the planet. Jesus, get some perspective over this Brexit bullshit.

    I'd say it's noteworthy because it's a result of similar politics, which revolve around blaming outsiders and seizing power back from so called out-of-touch institutions.

  • POTUS 2016

    Quote from Buddy

    1 hour ago, Buddy said: You could say "Dumb Americans" again, but same shit happened in UK or Poland. Ever growing ignorant masses have outnumbered us.

    I have these thoughts too and I genuinely think that's part of the problem. It makes us look like snobby liberal elites, turning our noses up at the "masses". Eventually they're bound to resent that attitude even if it's not what we intended, and then they're going to look elsewhere for solutions to their problems. That's when people like Donald Trump and Nigel Farage can swoop in posing as a "normal hard working bloke" and give them some easy scapegoats (immigrants, Muslim terrorists etc.) and make completely unrealistic but comforting promises like rejuvenating irrelevant industries to create proper jobs for hard working folk. It's easy for us to then label them as dumb because they fell for it, but that's ignoring the roots of the problem and perpetuating it at the same time.

  • DE_BRUTAL

    Just figured I'd start a WIP thread for a new map (old name, but didn't fit the last project which became de_secret and then died a death).

    The setting in my head at the moment is a somewhat run-down city filled with looming gray Brutalist architecture and flashes of colour provided by graffiti which I've been doodling by hand on paper with sharpies for a while. Just gotta figure out the best way to make the scanned images look graffiti-ish, but I've got plenty of time to do that whilst I refine the layout, hopefully with the help of YOU. Aaanyway, here's an overview, followed by some boring graybox screens.

    [Blocked Image: http://i.imgur.com/pM141ZE.jpg]

    T-spawn is down in a subway so a lot of that dark gray corridor is a steep slope which will someday be decorated with (immobile) escalators.

    Spoiler A site:[Blocked Image: http://i.imgur.com/YUgqVVz.jpg] Long A from T side:[Blocked Image: http://i.imgur.com/mRyfUjP.jpg]

    B site:[Blocked Image: http://i.imgur.com/IusYuhO.jpg]

    Mid from CT side:[Blocked Image: http://i.imgur.com/Q3nP5zJ.jpg]

    Mid from T side:[Blocked Image: http://i.imgur.com/XcZfh9Y.jpg]

    A WIP Quake 1 map that has nothing to do with this thread, but gray boxes are so boring to look at right?:[Blocked Image: http://i.imgur.com/EPaTvyn.png]


    I'll pop it up on the workshop tomorrow and book in a play-test ASAP. Thanks for looking!

  • Doom (4)

    Quote from FMPONE

    On 10/28/2016 at 2:46 AM, FMPONE said: I'm not sure the economics have made sense on single-player for a long time

    I'm going to flog this horse a little because I don't think it's dead. I agree that the economics of creating an old-school campaign-style SP mission pack probably don't add up anymore, but the beauty of DooM4 SP is that nobody plays it for the story-line, so instead of creating arenas for the rubbish MP mode why wouldn't ID put the same man-power in to creating a bunch of arenas with monsters spawning in them? I'd throw my money at that hand-over-fist before I even read a review (stupid, I know). Hell, if they really want to attract an online crowd they just need to design them with optional CO-OP.

    Standalone SP levels are one of the things that's given old shooters like the original Dooms and Quake 1 such longevity, so you'd think ID/Bethesda would be keen to see a similar philosophy adopted for their new games.

  • The Walking Dead

    This show isn't fun any more. It's incredibly well made and the acting and the writing in the last couple of episodes has been AMAZING, but it just relentlessly makes me feel shit. I might watch some ISIS torture videos for a bit of light relief.

  • [CSGO] de_paulo (New Name)

    Take your pick! But yeah, 125670277 looks the most developed. If they had all been stuck in greybox for years I'd say the name is fair game. de_shanty would probably be okay, there's only one workshop entry and it's a picture of a cartoon squid.

    de_hovel appears to be a picture of somebody from the cartoon Arthur.

    I'm starting to suspect people are just uploading cartoons to reserve map names.

  • Nintendo Switch

    Quote from Mazy

    2 hours ago, Mazy said: Gonna be interesting to see what kinda specs it has, but I guess that's not the point :)

    You said it! When you market your device with a five year old game you're certainly not targeting the traditional hardcore gamer.

  • I want to release a short video about my map (stil greybox), any tips to get players interested?

    To be brutally honest, everybody has a greybox (or two, or three, or ten) that they want high ranked testers to run around in and tell them whether or not it's worth anything. You'd be better off starting a WIP thread on these forums and booking a playtest here (I'm pretty sure we have some reasonable ranks among us, myself excluded!) using this thread. If your layout's any good you'll get really good quality feedback to work with, then eventually you'll be able to move on to the visuals which you can use to hook other players in.