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NikiOo

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  1. Oops, I meant selection wheel, not color wheel . And no, I'm talking about the new buy menu. I'm making my own shooter game and, because I don't like clicking on buttons, I made a wheel interface (with sub-wheels) for the dev tools, and I think it's a pretty good replacement for menu bars and dropdown menus. In terms of the editor, I hope the new one has a better asset importing pipeline. Importing textures and models was such a chore in Hammer even with the community-made tools.
  2. Does anyone else think that selection wheels (e.g. weapons inventory) are good—and not just for console. To me, it's like the windows button when it was in the corner. Gets burnt into your muscle memory very quickly, and you can do it with eyes closed. You only have to get the general angle right and pass the threshold distance.
  3. I got the Witcher 3 on sale. I had very low expectations of the combat, but it turned out to be good. It's much closer to Dark Souls than it is to other shitty open world games like assassin's creed, spiderman, and what have you. I decided to play without a mini-map cause it felt more immersive and I enjoy learning to pay attention to my surroundings and to recognize places and people. I used my ears to find the blacksmith instead of the mini-map. There was this side quest where you had to help some soldier find his lost daughter. After asking around I found out that she was last seen going into *the woods*. I walk the outskirts of the village looking for what *the woods* might be referring to. I see trees of roughly equal density in all directions. I decide to open my map to get a better idea of where *the woods* might be. And then I see it. A large dense forest north of the village. And the most infuriating thing - a quest marker in some very specific location in the forest. The other characters never mentioned exactly where she was supposed to be. "I will go look for her", said Gerald, and silly me thought I was going to look for her, but no, Geralt knows exactly where to go. They could have put a question mark on the edge of the forest like start looking here and then I would have used my witcher senses TM to find the pack of wolves. Some quests are better at this sort of thing. There was another quest that said "find the abandoned village with the well" and I didn't need a quest marker for that. The game has looked incredible so far, except for the first inn you go to with other witcher. That place looked awful.
  4. Godthumb by the godfather of parody films - Steve Oedekerk. His film Kung Pow is the most memorable film from my childhood and I was amazed when I found out that this guy had made a bunch of other spoof films where he puts his face on thumbs.
  5. That skybox looks gorgeous! Imagine if we convexer 5 years ago. We could have prevented the war. So many lives sacrificed for nothing...
  6. I remember playing Sniper Elite 4 with my nazi friend. We had a really fun time. We both cried when we killed Hitler.
  7. After close inspection of m0nesy and s1mple's skull and consulting with Vaugh's manual of Phrenology, I believe I have discovered the long-sought secret of Counter-Strike mastery. First here are some paintings of s1mple and m0nesy, with the skeletal regions of interest highlighted in ruby red. Pay close attention to their hair. In both players' paintings it is combed to the right. Their eye colors are identical, and there's a significant correlation between the shadow-patterns produced by their eye cavities. Striking similarity is also found in the shape and color of their lips. Also pay attention to the lipo-chinal concavity, which seems to be of equal depth. After examining paintings of many other players, I have managed to correlate each of these areas of the human skull with archetypal traits. I have produced the following Vaugh diagram to display these traits: I may say, this is some pretty conclusive evidence for the existence of genetically-inherited traits that relate to performance in Counter-Strike-related tasks. I look forward to seeing more research from other phrenologists on this topic
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    STARFIELD

    Slow-motion footage of smiling woman in a sterile office with blurred background is a major red flag for me. This game is gonna suck balls.
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    Mapcore Studio

    I agree. We, as a civilization, need to apply more selection pressure on low-impact game developers. That's why we need a new world war. If you're not gonna make serious games, go fight in the trenches! I'm sick of these pussy ass games diluting the internet.
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    Hammer++

    Fentanyl is pretty fun too!
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    Hammer++

    Imagine if we had all these features on release. Would have finished at least twice as many maps. Can't wait to try this.
  12. I bet if you set out to do it, you could make this scene photorealistic. Remove the fantasy scaffoldings, make the water less blue, reduce the bloom, replace the cartoon grass with grass thay looks like real grass, and undo the Instagram filter. They definitely weren't going for realistic here. And you can't make the excuse that the technology isn't there yet.
  13. Imagine being the guy who has to collect references for the body decapitation system of your game.
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    Goals for 2022?

    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.
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    Goals for 2022?

    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.
  16. 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!".
  17. 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?
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    Metaverse

    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.
  19. 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.
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    GTA V

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

    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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    Boulder

    I love the blend between the different types of tiles. Makes it look really organic.
  24. 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.
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    Steam Deck

    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.
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