ThunderKeil

saw the 4th season of stranger things, happy to say it kind of pulled back from the direction I thought S3 was taking it

Not actually something recent but kind of a retrospective; Played war thunder quite a bit throughout roughly mid 2020 to mid 2021, coming from someone who mostly plays fps I have to say it was refreshing in many aspects. Compared to (pc) fps titles, it's certainly cool to actually be able to sneak up around someone and not just have them snap a 180 on you at the last second. In the same vain, positioning becomes a lot more meaningful when you can't just go prone at the push of a button, and movement in general becomes more interesting when people can't go from full sprint to complete standstill on a dime. All of that gets blown off the table by its frankly ridiculous restrictions on f2p accounts, though. There's plenty to be said about microtransactions in most modern titles, but war thunder literally will not let you pick which maps you want to play on unless you're paying for the privilege. As a relevant aside; most of the maps are fuckawful. Don't get me wrong, it makes sense - this way they can keep queue times low on all maps for paying customers - but it really makes for a terrible user experience. Relevant aside #2; leaving a match early nets you a, like, 5 minute cooldown - in casual play. ( it's more complex than that but it's irrelevant to the point ) It can be a lot of fun & makes for a great ''well I have 10 minutes to spare'' kind of game, but I'm glad to have quit it and wouldn't recommend it to anyone as is.

Started watching the Netflix Castlevania series mediocre animation terrible dialogue poor voice acting it's like someone grew up watching badly dubbed anime & tried to recreate it from memory

Picked up Far Cry (1) which I'd been intending to take a look at for a while It's interesting to see what the series started off with. One thing that stands out to me is the ability to fire a vehicle's mounted gun without having to jump into the gunner seat, which I enjoy. No [detection] bloops over the enemies' heads either which is honestly refreshing . . not sure whether 2 has those already or not. The combat's pretty solid once you get into the groove of it, at least in the first half(?) of the game. The enemies definitely deal more damage than in the rest of the series but it's paced well. Not enjoying the tanky mutant soldiers as much as the human ones. Kind of annoyed by the weapon scope getting cancelled when I strafe 9 inches

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gXlauRB1EQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTMF6xEiAaY Not sure this is worth sharing but it really got into my ear just how bizarre and poorly framed the whole narrative is, it's basically what's-his-name's ( not being rude I legit forgot and can't find the threads ( p sure they got deleted anyway )) posts except a video with ~5m views and seemingly being received with unanimous praise

Archive 81 was pretty good (spoilers)

Hate to be a cynic ( or do I? ) but I have to say I continue to be astounded by the low quality of character animation in otherwise decent production value titles

So it's only PVE, right? Never played SWAT or Rainbow 6 so it honestly looks like payday (2) to me more than anything from that introduction video Definitely not a saturated subgenre I think, so they've got a good shot to carve out a playerbase

am I allowed to stop after 3 pages, or was this a trap to call me a quitter for not finishing it

(re)watched Shutter Island Great film. Very concerning that it took me more than half of it to be certain I had, in fact, already seen it

apparently scaling your playermodel in csgo just scales your pants

He's always been obnoxious and dramatic, it just used to be charming in a way, which I'd say he's lost over the past few years I don't think you can say the Valve drought hit him, that drought is basically what he built his channel on. Would people have been clambering for scraps of information if Valve regularly released new content and communicated with the outside world? Well, maybe. But I think it was the mystique that kept people interested, and kept tyler humble. Around when HLA was announced he went into kind of a ''see I am a real journalist!'' phase ( while still acting like a neo-youtuber/streamer, mind you ) which honestly became grating pretty quickly. The same reason anyone of vague noteworthiness dislikes journalists, needing to lock your bins to keep people from rummaging through old mail is not by and large considered a hobby. I'm sure once upon a time they found his obsessive fanaticism endearing, but that's easier with a 15 y/o than a 20-something.

If you haven't played for more than 2 years I strongly recommend against it, it's more liable to spoil your memories than to let you relive them the bot issues are about as bad as ever, and Valve seems to've stopped caring, honestly. Maybe they're holding back until they can fix it permanently, since the band-aid solutions weren't received well, but it's a sad state at the moment.

I'm in a similar position - I really want to get in on it, but I'm pretty sensitive to motion sickness & I don't know anyone with a headset to try it out You'll probably get the option to receive it as a gift code though, so if any of your friends does end up buying a not-index it doesn't have to go to waste

What was the playtesters' response to all the silos? Cs players really love to hold/peek their corners so I imagine all the round curves might become fatiguing Just based on your video I thought the layout was very difficult to read, so I downloaded the map to check it out myself. Couldn't really play it due to missing props but I guess between the video and the radar I can piece it together IMO, the large cluster of silos makes for an awkward shape to place centrally in the map, and may be disorienting to first-time players Got a bit carried away with this but my point is I think using simple bold shapes would work better as a central point;

to be fair though that's not a very commonly used word

Watched the rest of Stranger Things Season 2 felt like a seamless extension of the first, and I'd say I enjoyed it just as much. The third felt . . unnecessary? It doesn't really expand on the world & instead moves for a very typical ''our heroes go on another adventure'' type of sequel. I think it's a shame because I did feel like season 2 still left some opportunities to further clarify or expand on elements of the story, which as I said were left entirely untouched by the third season. Lots more action, not as much tension. For all intents and purposes a change of genre.

@zastels I might be wrong but I think you may have misinterpreted what melc meant by 'needing' models. I don't think he meant he's concerned his brushwork is of insufficient quality, just trying to prevent the waterindice limit from having an aneurism Detail brushes are great for unique instances, they're not great for a (complex) object you intend to duplicate more than 17 times [edit] I can only assume you do not know what props are. I will not be continuing this conversation in this thread as it it disrespectful to the creator. If you wish to discuss it further, please make a thread of your own.

Not particularly, I'm probably keeping it a deathmatch/variety map as long as I'm working on the project alone. I have thoughts of what else to make of it, but unless I can really nail it down ( which I can't ) I think there's little to be gained branching the project off like that Nope, just working off pictures. I'd love to go someday but the past year(s) have been . . suboptimal for international travel.

Collected all my reference screenshots together for a timelapse

Thanks Yea, I guess everyone here can relate because source is source but I'm having a pretty tough time trying to tune the lighting with no visual indication between compiling (._. ) I'm assuming you're mainly referring to the 7th picture? I think I forgot to re-solidify those roofs, shame I didn't catch that before but it should be an easy fix. The whole parallel halls set ( right hand background of 7th picture ) is still pretty rough in general though, it's a hard section to get good photographs from so it hasn't progressed much since the first uploaded version of the map [edit] yea those are from canals, just wanted to make the space a bit less empty - they'll probably be replaced eventually

It's new! It's bright! I'm not sure my cubemaps are working! download link! [edit] also actually I'm not sure I mentioned this before but, like, all previous versions of this map are kind-of sort-of liable to crash frequently and without exception - but this one's not! I think! I guess my desktop's haunted or something? The maps it compiles always run fine on itself, but seem to break apart on any other device . . whoops? At any rate, this one was compiled on a different computer, and I haven't seen any issues with it as of yet.

Watched Fantastic Beasts, it's ok

I'm not expecting them to scientifically explain why or how ghosts are making people kill themselves - obviously - but I do expect, like I said, to see the characters at least show a minimal reasonable amount of curiosity & basic reasoning regarding the situation they're in. In Bird Box's case it just felt like random attributes were being thrown into the mix and noone's even attempting to connect the dots - despite being given a wealth of time to do so. Thanks, doggo, you somehow made me more pissed about it than I was while watching it I'm fairly certain I've seen 10 Cloverfield Lane, not sure about A Quiet Place - I've got a list somewhere Interesting, that's entirely opposite of my experience. "Older" content's always been just as appealing to me as new stuff, and the internet certainly made it [cough] available, too. I think a lot of younger people nowadays have a lot more exposure to media from before their time, and streaming services have made that easier than ever. ( well - I mean, to a degree - I have to say looking at the current netflix roster I'm seeing a lot of gaps; 3rd rock, 30 rock, house, always sunny, t70s, etc. I'm sure they're on a service somewhere, but netflix is hardly the library of video media anymore, if it ever was. ) On the topic of Netflix - Just finished the first season of Stranger Things - Wow! As a huge fan of Stephen King and X-Files, I can hardly say more than ''fantastic''.

I think that's really common ( you know, sans the tripping ) - sadly - but yea same for me, anyway. The worst part is absolutely when you've already decided that you want to cut it out, but your subconscious just doesn't let it go. Any time I'd slightly lose focus the muscle memory just slams down and a new tab is already open. Been ""clean"" for like 5 years now though, I think. I'm sad to say YouTube has largely filled that hole for me, however, but I like to think as long as I keep it to audio-only content I'm no worse off than anyone from the past 70 years who had a radio on while working Not gonna lie that's kind of an anti-flex