Posts by NikiOo

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8 hours ago, 0kelvin said: http://differentialandintegralcalculus.wikidot.com/

This is my most immediate goal for now. It doesn't have any relationship with level design but I hope this can at least be a resource for future works. The goal for now is to cover limits, differentiation and integrals of functions of one variable.

If you're gonna pick up a Calculus book, I'd recommend Spivak's Calculus. I liked it better than Stweart's Calculus. It feels much more meaningful and more focused on understanding different techniques of proof. I can also recommend Serge Lang's books, which introduce the theory in a very concise and clear fashion. This is just my experience. I've found that, as a rule of thumb, old textbooks tend to be better at explaining concepts. For all fields, not only maths.

My primary goal for 2022 is to complete and publish this small game that I'm working on. I've started a lot of projects like this in the past, but I feel now I am progressing fast enough that I'll be able to push through with it. I also need to fix my f-ed up sleeping schedule.

University is a ponzi scheme. You go there, thinking you're gonna learn some skills. Soon you realize you can learn everything more efficiently by yourself. But hey, at least there all these awesome people to hang out with (you all got duped)? Or perhaps not, because you're studying online.

Pump and dump! Unicoin to the moon! Sell your Unicoins and start a business, or bribe HR to give you a job.

Unicoin club is like a cult. You may not get to see your creator, but at least you'll get to partake in sex rituals.

Update: All sex rituals are cancelled because of covid.

Imagine telling the artists "remake all the textures from the original game but with models and high res PBR shading." And later when it's done be like, "damn, that's so derivative, you slack-off!".

This is just the straight up graphical upgrade down to the forms and textures of the assets. What more could you expect other than perhaps better lighting?

Why would I go to Iceland if I can just go to Basalt?

It's completely immersive, the water is wet (you just can't touch it), there are humans to connect with (and shoot in the head, which you can't do in real iceland), there's moss, sky, rocks, and a waterfall, which look very real. The only thing missing is live animals, but that's compensated by all the live humans walking and shooting around the settlement. I can stay here forever. Or not.

Also, they better have some really good smart glasses in the works if they're advertising all of this AR stuff.

"The future will be made by us." Not by you, by us. You have no say in it. We're turning off the comments and hiding the dislikes.

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So this train car was meant to be for my wingman map, but then I got a call from Naught Dog saying they want it for the new Uncharted 5. I guess the map is scrapped now... You'll see this in 2028 when the game comes out. I hear they're planning to use it in one of the big action sequences in the last level.

Is there a term for those trashy websites that put out low-effort content like "Top 15 healthy foods you should be eating" or "20 indie games you should play right now" or "14 best Family Guy episodes" or any other article, filled with ads, which you never read but only skim through when you're interested in what the corporate superintelligence wants you to think?

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2 hours ago, will2k said: 20 Minutes of NEW Dying Light 2 Gameplay

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I can't see the game. There's too much UI in the way.

Really convenient how they named the heavy sniper Operator, so I can just call it AWP and it sounds the same. Thank you Riot! You know your awdience.

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4 hours ago, untor said:

I love the blend between the different types of tiles. Makes it look really organic.

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16 hours ago, blackdog said: Interesting @NikiOo. There’s always time to expand and create the two bomb layout… quite interestingly in an old video 3kliksphillip explained how he created his winter map by basically building wingman maps before wingman was a thing, testing the single bomb sites and then connecting it.

All of you mortals can't even begin to comprehend this shit. I tackle these monolithic projects all the time. While you're sitting there scratching your head, trying to wrap your mind around the car's engine, I'm out there designing pistons and manifolds. It's like a conveyor belt through my head - problems coming in, solutions coming out. Zero resistance, maximum current. I am the founder of object-oriented level design!

And this? This is just one of the pieces for de_lakestreet. I've already made wm_lakestreet2 and wm_lakestreet3. I didn't share them out of pity. Cause I know many of you will straight up quit mapping when you see how productive I am.

If I was Valve, I'd say "Steam Deck starts shipping 2024, blame COVID" and then I'd drop them early 2022 like BAAM! Look at me under-promise and over-deliver! Classic perseverence narrative.

I only watched one game on Ancient and I've never played, but I think it's a very boring map.

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Here's a screenshot from de_rail, now wm_lakestreet. I decided to turn this into a wingman map so I can actually finish it. I cut what I think was the worst area of the map and now I have something that is much more manageable. I encourage everyone who has a defuse map in the works, which they feel overwhelmed by, to consider taking a part of it and turning it into a wingman. I did this for three reasons. Firstly, the complete layout woulld require very good understanding of residential building interiors and I would have to create too many assets for the great number of unique interiors players would walk through. Secondly, wingman maps are much easier to playtest. And thirdly, I have one more defuse layout that's in the works and I decided that if I am to commit to a big project I should chose the more interesting layout so I chose the other map.

It seems as if the more time I spend workinig on a texture, the more satisfied I am with the result ?. How intriguing.

Anorexic guy covered in carpet is my favorite enemy in all of games.

Klems, have you seen the speedruns of this game? This guy is insane:

I beat the game a while ago and I've been learning to speedrun it. It lends itself very well to movement tricks and shortcuts.

For me the pandemic was a major puch in the gut. I would have been in a very different place right now had it not been for COVID. Even before the pandemic, mapping had grown to seem like sort of an escapist thing so I had decided to take a break from it and make some major life changes to figure out why I am so inefficient at inter-humous relationships.

So here I am, all out of my comfort zone and walking through this swamp, fighting unseen creatures, stress levels through the roof, when all of a sudden the sky gets dark.

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And then the COVID storm hits and trips me over. I manage to crawl my way underneath the roots of a tree, where I feel relatively safe. Problem is, now I can't go forward. The swamp is eating up my legs, mosquitoes laying eggs inside my ears while I sleep, and the eggs are hatching faster because of the moisture from the storm. Also the wind was brushing up swamp water onto my legs, which was catalyzing with my peasant clothes. I felt trapped and my condition was getting worse. I thought to myself, my legs are under-leveled, I cannot resist the entropy. Then I heard a voice from the sky and I looked up.

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"You have some fine legs, son! You are on teh path to cerebro-fuego". "Thank you, Mufasa! You are truly as brilliant as they say!" This elevated my spirit and I decided to keep looking for whatever the hell he was hinting at. I would rest to gather up strength during the day and then leave at night to hunt for small swamp creatures. Then one night I hear footsteps, I look outside and I see the legendary meat-man. He was traversing the swamp with such elegance as if he was skating on ice. Enthralled by his magestic movements, I called him out and asked, "legendary meat-man, how come the swamp is not eating up your legs?". To this he replied, "It is because my legs are covered in meat, young padowan. You should try this too."

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I thanked him and the next day I did what he'd suggested. (he also taught me martial arts) I covered my legs with meat and voalha! I could now walk through the swamp as if it wasn't there. This is great, I thought. At this rate I can make up the time I lost hiding from the COVID storm. So I kept walking until I reached the swamp cave. And in the swamp cave lay the swampnauceros.

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It was sleeping and I was all pumped up, adrenaline drooling out of my mouth, my muscles all tensed up, so I pull out my knife and charge directly at it. Then out of nowhere comes legendary meat-man. He speaks to me, "Yo, amigo, stand back! This is not you amigo, you cannot defeat this beast at your level, even though you know karate! You have to visit mountain level and acquire the money printer from the traveling salesman so you can shoot the beast with money. "But, mr. meat-man! How can I find this traveling salesman?" "Oh, you'll eventually find him, the mountain level is walled-off. He can't run away." "Okay, mister meat-man. Thank you for your precious advice! Bye-bye!"

So here I am trekking through the forest, approaching the village at the root of the mountain-level. In the village I find a guide, named Fuejo. And naturally the first thing I ask him is, "Fuejo, man, why be the mountain so green and mushy?" "Oh, you don't know, amigo? The mountain is covered in swamp!" "This swamp...it's unlike other swamp. It's very thick and hostile, it won't let just anyone through." Stealthily, I looked around the bar to ensure no cats were around, then I spread my coat for Fuejo to see my meat armor. "Oh, I've seen this type of armor. It will protect you, but it is not enough. Here, take this..." He passed me a dirty jar with some white powder in it "What is this?" "It's called diezo-diazo. You snort it up your ass and it will inflate your armor." "Is this safe to use", I asked him. "Well, if you take too much, your armor will explode and cover you with blood, which will attract the swamp sharks."

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So here I am crawling through a swamp once again, when suddenly I realize that I would need something to trade for the money printer. After all salesmen tradesmen aren't called tradesmen for nothing. So I dig into my pockets and pull out this half complete wooden house that I'd been chipping away at before I started my odyssey through the swamps. But I had not tool. I looked around and I saw this man who was carrying a wood-chewing tool. I had no choice. There was simply no other way. I stabbed him in the back of the head with my knife, then after the sharks devoured him, i came back to scrounge the remains. Freshly nutrified, I managed to complete the wooden house.

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And lo and behold, I found the traveling salesman. "Here, take this house, travelling tradesman. All I want in return is the money printer." "Okay, here you go." "nice, I can defeat the swampnaucerous now. Thank you traveling salesman! In return, I shall build you a big house on top of the hill." "You already paid me with the wooden house model". "Oh, ok".

Watched the first episode. This is stimulating in a unique way.

Reminds me of a comic I read recently - Age of Reptiles by Ricardo Delgado. Similar kind of mood, only all the characters are dinosaurs.

Can someone explain why the FOV is always so low in these FPS trailers? Is there some reason for it? It makes me nauseous.

Env art looks sick, though. Those shoes are hawt.

Sucks that John Wick is in this film. Didn't really like him as a character.