I'm doing great! How are you?

I fixed the .bat file, but you need to follow the instructions to install MSYS2 first. I think it's a lot faster than installing VS since it only takes about a minute.

I will try out your MSVC fixes and them to the project.

I don't really know anything about OBJ files. Usually you need more than a model object for a game level. You need all kinds of collision information, pathing etc, for example that wouldn't be in a model file normally. Depending on the game type.

I wasted a few hours trying to get Blocko to compile with Visual Studio, and then with VSCode, and then with just cl.exe. I did get it to *compile* with cl.exe but it's weird and buggy and crashy. Maybe for C++ reasons? I don't know how anyone gets C to work with Microsoft's tools. It's just too complicated and it wants me to buy stuff.

So anyway I got it to work with https://www.msys2.org/ instead. It's maybe not great but it Works On My MachineTM.

I've committed the new scripts and instructions to my repo: https://github.com/superjer/tinyc.games

My man really made a water level. Great work!

Now with keycaps with text.



Since each keycap set only came with a single 1.75u keycap I ended up using them both, which is why the big right thumbkey is an upside down CapsLock key. That's not the only weirdly used keycap. Since the keycaps are in SDA layout they can be easily moved around without having to deal with key height not matching up.

I am using the numpad numbers as a number row since they're significantly cleaner (no extra symbols). Unfortunately this comes with a few draw backs; namely the 5 key has a homing "bump", the numpad 0 key is a 2u by default so I'm using the Norwegian/Danish Ø letter.

The kit came with red arrow keys and Escape key, so I'm using an arrow key as enter. I'd like to have Delete in the top right and Enter in the bottom right but have swapped those keys to make the red keys look better.

My keyboard layout has ! and ? as base layer keys, so I'm using the 1! key and +? key from the number row to mark those out, meaning that they're not quite accurate.

The keycap set (obviously) didn't come with a Raise and Lower key, so I'm using numpad * and Menu for those. I'm also using numpad - and / since I have those keys on my base layer.

The keycap set didn't come with 1u CTRL or Alt keys, so they're replaced by Home and numpad . respectively.

The keycap set didn't come with 1u Tab, so that's been replaced with a Pause key. I've also added the End key below that, since that's a new key that doesn't exist on the Planck.

Since the poliboard has more keys than the Planck (12 from number row, 1 extra from not having a blocking 2u space key) there's a few more keys. The Delete key on the far right, the End key (no function yet) and the 1.25u menu key on the right thumb which doesn't have a function yet either.

When it comes to the firmware I'm having many weird issues installing the QMK Environment. I asked for help in the QMK Discord, but the problems I'm having seems to confuse them too. Some files suddenly decided to just delete themselves. I'll have to look more into it, but it's annoying me a great deal.

Cheers

The plates have arrived!



The switches clicked right in and were removed just like on my keyboards that have hotswappable switches, so the sizing ended up being perfect. Not that that's surprising, since I ordered from a website that has been connected up directly with the tools I used.

The price ended up not being bad at all. Turns out it was shipped from Greece, which being in the EU means that the VAT was paid even though they didn't show it. There was also no import cost other than the shipping cost. So that's cool.

I copied the 10º angle of the sections from the Atreus since I wasn't sure what angle I would like. The previous version's angle was just guessed based on me holding up my arms to my monitor. That version also had the sections further apart. Now that the plates have arrived I noticed that to have my arms straight onto the sections I can't use my arm rests, but instead need to have my arms fall to my sides. I'm not sure if I will end up prefering this or the having the angle increased to 20-30.

I also got some more switches because I'm mad:



The pink and translucent switches are Everglide Sakura Pink and the black and Yellow are Gateron Yellow Switches. They're both linear switches because I was very hyped for that after typing for a while on Kailh BOX Red. I bought Kailh BOX Black a long time ago, (as I'm fairly certain I wrote about here, and the black being too heavy for me but the red feeling great I wondered what linear switch I could buy that was the lightest. Turns out that's Everglide Sakura Pink, with an actuation force of 35g. The Gateron Yellows I bought because a Mechanical Keyboard Youtuber I watch said they're his favourite so I'm looking forward to testing them.

Short review of the Everglide Pink:
They're very light. In fact, they're the only keyswitches I've ever tried that I've accidentally triggered keys just by resting my fingers on the keys. Mainly it's the F key because of it being the left hand homing key. I also have a fairly large problem of double-tapping the keys where I try to gently press the key once to not bottom out but it triggers twice. Another problem is that it feels like the actuation point is on different heights on different keys. This probably has more to do with different strenght in my fingers. As I try to avoid bottoming out I have to press very gently with my index and long fingers but when I press as hard as I think I should with my pinkie finger it ends up not being quite far enough to trigger the key. Also, the actuation point is in my personal opinion too far down. If you're the kind of person who wants really light hairtrigger style switches you probably also want them to trigger quickly, right? And lastly, because of how light the keyswitches are you can feel the actuation point. I'm not quite sure of the construction of them, but just before the actuation point the key gets "stuck" and requires a percentally stronger push to actually trigger. This review ended up being pretty long, huh?

I got some switch lube which apparently can help with spring ping, which might end up saving the Halo Trues I bought. Unfortunately I still haven't recieved the Switch opener I ordered. Keyswitches can be opened using a screwdriver and some violence, but I'm too scared to do that.

As I will be soldering on the keyswitches I can't decide on switches to use. I was fairly certain that the best option would be the Zealios V2 and some linear switches for modifier keys. I think I might end up just using the Zealios on every key since I'm not sure which keys will end up being modifers. I do want to try lubing them though.

I moved the keys around on my Planck and placed Shift and Backspace on the closest keys to the spacebar making them both thumbkeys and easier to access (especially when typing using actual touch typing). I will probably end up doing the same on the Poliboard. I also realized first today that since the keyboard doesn't have any extra keys other than not having a 2 unit spacebar (and a number row) that it ends up being very close to the Planck. In fact, it's the same number of keys as the 1u only version of the Preonic. So that's cool, I guess?

Candykeys, the store I bought most of my stuff from has restocked their Novelkeys + Kailh Cream switches. These are made of the plastic POM and some other materials so it's self lubricating. I really like this idea, and it's been getting top reviews and so ended up running out of stock everywhere for like a year. I'm planning on buying a pack of these when Candykeys restock another thing that I'm waiting on for a different keyboard I'm interested in.

That's all for now, cheers.

My finalized design.


I ended up not using my Adobe Illustrator designed file but instead spent a lot more time designing the keyboard using the Keyboard Layout Editor, then making the plate with Swillkb's Plate and Case Builder. Unfortunately Keyboard Layout Editor not very good at doing columnar staggering (it groups things horizontally). Here's my code if you want to try it out:



And here's the code from before the columnal stagger:

Much cleaner code since it's not having issues grouping the keys. This version doesn't have any text added to the keys, but still, that's not difficult to add, just a bit of effort.

Swillkb's Plate Builder also misses a feature (and a weird bug) that I assumed that it had, which I found out by trying to make it work for very long. The bug is that it doesn't always position the holes correctly. If you look at the KLE version I posted you'll see that the Space and STAND keys are actually positioned slightly differently. This is because I noticed that for some reason it moved the space key up slightly for some reason in SP&CB. It did it so much it would genuinely have made the keyboard jam up by putting 2 keycaps inside each other.
The missing feature is that the builder has a system for writing instructions so the keyboard plate has a different design than the default rectangle using add and cut commands to add and remove material. This works well enough, the problem is that it doesn't seem able to cut into the material rectangle automatically designed. Since I wanted to remove quite a bit of material around my keys that's annoying. This is weird though, since in the documentation for the builder it makes an example where it does exactly this. I'm not sure if it's just my keyboard bugging this out too, but I wouldn't be surprised.




This is the aluminium plate I just ordered from an international lasercutting service. I also ordered the bottom plate, which is the same thing but without the holes for the key switches. I ended up ordering from this website instead of from the Swedish or Danish websites I found. The Swedish one doesn't cut aluminium, so I'd have to get an acrylic top plate, which means that the switches wouldn't click into place and would probably have to be glued in. It would also be less durable. The Danish website was extremely expensive (200eur for one plate compared to Lasergist's 170 for both). I will end up having to pay again for the plates though as it was bought without VAT and without import costs, but it will still end up being 60%-ish of the cost. And somehow also cheaper shipping?

This is what the wiring matrix will end up looking like:


Because of the stagger, angling of the keys and 4 strangely positioned keys Keyboard Firmware Builder ended up making a big mess with how many rows and collumns and how they should be ordered. Since the keyboard essentially just is two 5*6 blocks of keys, with 2 keys on each side moved slightly, the wiring should be very easy.

I was also complaining how there wasn't a keyboard that had all the features that I wanted, turns out I was wrong. There's a keyboard called the ErgoDash (pictured below) that does what I want, with some extra features that I don't mind. The place you buy the PCBs for it from also sells assembly service so you don't have to build it yourself. I looked into buying a kit, but it's more complicated than I can handle, having not built a keyboard previously, and the assembly service was fairly expensive, but I am thinking about maybe buying it some other time.

The Ergodash:


The ErgoDash can also be build with several different layout. Check out the various layouts on it's Github Page.

I recieved my delayed parcel with blank dsa keycaps, switches and microcontrollers. In the parcel there was only one kind of switch, one was missing, and there was an extra microcontroller for some reason. I contacted their customer service and was told the Kailh BOX Jade were delayed for some reason, and that they would come later, and that I could keep the microcontroller for free. Huh.

So, here's my short review of the Zealios V2 62g:
They're the most tactile keyswitches I've ever felt, and the bump is immediate. On the Kailh BOX White there is quite a bit of travel before you hit the bump. Same thing with the Cherry MX Blue. The 62g is the lightest version, and reading that they were 62g I was honestly a bit scared to pick them up since I significantly prefere light switches, but they are great. The Zealios V2 are also available with 67 and 78 grams of resistance, but I'm not sure if that is actuation or bottom out force. On the 62g ones that's the same thing, the bump is so strong that it's basically impossible to avoid bottoming out on them, but the bottom out is very gentle, almost as if they've softened the keys somehow. More likely the way you type on them, where they resist your push until they give in makes your fingers move down a set distance that happens to be just above the bottom. I really like them, and will probably use them instead of the Kailh BOX Red, but I plan on swapping in the BOX Reds for the modifier keys and use the tactile Zealios for the other keys.

I also found a Swedish store that sold a full Swedish SDA or XDA keycap set (both of which are uni-height), allowing for free movement and positioning of the keys. This is great and I'll probably end up buying it.

I also ordered a key switch opener and some switch lube and hopefully that's enought to fix the spring ping on the Halo Trues that I bought, but it'll be fun to try out otherwise too.

Cheers

I appreciate that one Nez.

Have fun , most of everyone here is an asshole except superjer himself but other then that welcome

it's good i bought a fight stick.

it is great but only of you got the money :>

Not sure if anyone had done this already, so I just made this thread for new guys like me to create an intro. Anyway, newbie here. I'm glad to have found this great online superjer community. I'm hoping to have fun with the other members here. Cheers!

I was thinking about "Screenwriter's Blues"

They may work better as separate cards that may later be combined to great effect.

A friend had this appear in the spam filter of his website and now I'm curious if it will be one of the great white cards.

Wow. When we quote it it comes out different. I didn't think of that.

I actually quite like that one. Well maybe not those combos, but definitely the first one you posted!

Those are amazing AaronJer. Holy crap these are some great cards lately. Much better than like:

Lately I've been using the phrase "this violates the Zen of Jer Lang" whenever I see code that irks me.

To be fair I have to actually write down what the Zen is. Right?

Jer Lang is the name for my programming language that doesn't actually exist. That's why it's so good. It doesn't have any faults if it doesn't exist. Right?

The Zen of Jer Lang is a play on the Zen of Python:

(Goes great with the Bernie Sanders one)

It would be great if it felt like the original Dooms, but with better graphics, but that'll never happen. Instead it'll be like every other game with a thin layer of Doom-colored paint on it.

You guys are going to hate reading the next part. I decided that if she wants to talk like a bot, she should talk WITH a bot. I loaded up cleverbot.com and copied all of her messages into it, and then sent her the results.



She kept me working for over an hour and a half! SO STUPID!!

A death toll great enough to create jobs

Grabbing food out of people's mouths before they eat it is so evil. You'll make a great super villain.

That was a response to Garyjer's newest black card and a suggestion. It works great already!

Hi again!

Superjer: I have some friends into CSGO-mapping right now. And I found this CSS remake of Salt http://css.gamebanana.com/maps/153077

Is that CSS something you had to do with?

If you could help us on the way to get "the best map I know" out to the CSGO-community I would be grateful. Please send me a email about this: jens.bryner@gmail.com

And yes I´ve played substation, great map!And de_contra_b3 is in our mapcycle. Really nice map to play.

/Jens

Black cards:

Play 2
Doctor, you're a genius! No one has ever thought of using _____ to treat _____!


Why granny, what a big _____ you have!


The boy would grow to be a great leader, and his name was _______.

Did anyone say Alphabet challenge?

Another oversized child
Biggest child
Creative child
Dead child
Every single child
Fat child
Great child of fire
Hateful child
Inside-out child
Just another child
Kreative child
luminescent child
Monotone child
Not another child
Our own biological child
Potato sized child
Questionable child
Replaceable child
Superiour child
Two-headed child
Uni-headed child
Vacant child
Wild child
Xylitol-based child
Yeti child
Zzzleeping child

I dressed up as a SWAT zombie and chased customers around my store all day. It was great! Some of them actually ran out of the store and didn't come back!

I was playing Magic Carpet earlier and then I ran into this:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/arcane-worlds-tactical-fps-with-flight-and-magic

It's only alpha now. But it looks like it could be great. Unfortunately it is not getting a lot of attention yet.

Here's a video of the wacky crap you can do with water:

Also, the boss fights are pretty great. With the exception of Dhalsim, who is stupid easy with his weakness, all the others still require strategies to defeat even if you have the right weapon. In particular, the Urien fight can be amazing when executed well.

Tarn Adams is an American hero.


The Bay12 Team also did this in response to a request for Sanic fanfiction.

Oh, it's going to happen, it just may take a while. I think that training them for war and assigning them to my archer squadron could prove to be a deadly combination.

I haven't done much with them just yet, but they've already proven to be a great team of first responders. If a goblin or kobold show up anywhere near my entrance, the grizzlies are usually red in tooth and claw before any dwarves so much as get armor on.

That guy was the worst, but Cosmo's handling of it was great.

HLUAGUAALUHUALUGAULUUGHHULAHUAHUOGUOGL




phew


I can see it happening. The show is really walking a tightrope because it needs to have enough deaths to make the violence and circumstances convincing, but if it has too much violence and keeps introducing new characters, then the "this is all that remains of humanity" conceit starts to fall apart a little. That's already a danger by focusing on the military over the commoners. I think that a show could be made alone on them pushing back and trying to figure out what caused this without the entrance of the special titans, which I think are probably going to push the show in a more conspiratorial, "this is all happening because of this" direction.

But yeah, it's got good things going for it. Like the anime adaptation specifically vs. the manga... In the manga they escape from Shiganshina after Wall Maria gets wrecked and then two panels later it's "HERE IS THE TOP TEN OF YOUR GRADUATING CLASS." It's bad. You have a whole lot of characters thrown at you all at once that you know jack all about. The way that the anime handled it by having two episodes devoted to boot camp and easing you into all the personalities under a more natural setup just felt better. I don't know yet though if that was purely an invention of the anime or if the mangaka realized he fucked up and stuff all that in as flashback in a later chapter.

Visually, the world sort of reminds me of Fullmetal Alchemist in some ways, the level of technology and the fact that war is one of the subject matters of the show. But Attack on Titan really seems to succeed in that visceral horror of violence and people faced with the prospect of being eaten alive. Watching the various characters come to terms with that is what seems to make the show work. You see that cute couple in Trost and think "I know the way these shows work and one or both of you will be dead by sundown." And it happens. But then you look at the angles of the shot and what you're able to see and what the animators are deliberately not showing you and it's "Ohhh. You're trying to do CPR... on a torso.... please stop..."


Anyway, I'll probably keep at the slowpace for Attack on Titan (hard, since I have a bad habit of spoiling things for myself on Wikipedia) go through the newer season of Mushishi soon to tide me over until Hanamonogatari comes out mid-August. I may look into some of the other entries but I'm sometimes a bit leery of the really acclaimed shows as they can easily disappoint. Along with aaronjer and I think Nez, I was one of maybe five people that didn't think Madoka was amazing. I appreciated it visually and what it was trying to do, I just don't think that it succeeded.

I've watched the first season of Attack on Titan. It starts off great but slowly just becomes more absurd. It's still worth watching though.

And, yeah, they do kill off characters at a rediculous pace. I can't rememeber how many times the show goes "Oh, here's a whole new bunch of people, because we killed off the last batch".

Also, since there's an ongoing season of anime being released, I guess I could do a short explanation and a "review" of the ones I found worth watching. In order of which weekday they are released.

Black Bullet
The world's been fucked by giant monsters. Only solution? Get a bunch of little girls, inject them with poison and operate on them. This makes them able to fight the monsters. The main character is a guy who works with killing these monsters. With him he has his figher loli. These figher lolis have problems in life though, as people are scared of them because they have red eyes. You actually get to see a police execute one of these girls.
The show has really enjoyable characters all around, with few exceptions. Good animations, good story. In my opinion, the best release this season.

Hitsugi no Chaika
A fantasy world, where there currently is global peace. This peace is bad for the main character because he has been trained in nothing but combat. The main character meets a girl who dresses in all white and carries a big coffin. They are then attacked by a unicorn. A pretty terrifying unicorn. They solve the battle by cutting the unicorn in half and cover the entire battlefield with blood. Not for kids.
The coffin girl wants the main character to break into a house and steal a very important item for her. She needs a lot of stuff stolen though, so they continue traveling after.
Amazing characters, the world is brilliant. The story is a bit shit though, but it's still great to watch.

Inugami-san to Nekoyama-san
5 minutes per episode. Girl with "dog" in her name likes cats. Girl with "cat" in her name likes dogs. They act as their respective animal name. Lesbians. Hilarious stuff happens. Amazing characters, barely any story just small stories from their lives.

Blade and Soul
Weapons and tits. Based in a fantasy setting from some video game. A main character that you wouldn't care if she lived or died because she is so boring. The show survives on mostly great animations and decent dialogue between all characters who are not the main character.

Mushishi Zoku Shou
Second season of Mushishi. Mushishi is amazing and the second season is just more of the same.
The main character works as a Mushishi because he works with fixing problems that occur when Mushi are around. Mushi are little living things that most people can't see. They cause very many unexplainable effects to happen, like a boy who got ill with a certain kind of Mushi had snow that never stopped falling around him. He never got warm, and heat hurt him. It's slow, and it's great.

Akuma no Riddle
A bunch of school girls in a school. Except, every single one of them is an assassin except for one girl. The last girl is the target of all the other girls. The main character girl (probably) falls in love with the target girl and instead starts protecting her.
Great story, only one episode so far has left me going "why? what? wat...". Except for the stone cold and boring main character (who sometimes actually react to things) all characters are interesting. I don't like the teacher but that's life.

Mekakucity Actors
Shaft makes an anime. It's good. Bunch of teenage kids have found out they have super powers. The first main character needs to go out of his house for the first time in months to buy a new keyboard, because it would take 2 days for it to get shipped to him if he purchased it online. He gets put in a hostage situation. Stuff happens.
It's great. It's Shaft who animates it, so of course it's brilliant. The story is a bit of a cluster fuck sometimes but they usually untwist the parts that are the hardest to follow.

Brynhildr in the Darkness
A boy meets a strange new girl who starts in his class. He learns that she's a witch and that she has escaped from horrible experiments by the army. He finds out that she needs medication every 24(?) hours or she'll die by having all her blood bleed out of every single pore on her body. More and more witches start stacking up.
The show has great parts, like that the witches just want to save people, or just want to live, while being chased by the army. Then it has the bad parts, which is the humour. There are barely no funny jokes, mostly just the kind of cringe-because-it's-embarrasing kind of humor. For an example, main character used to have a female friend when he was a kid and she had 3 dots on her skin under her arm. So, when the first witch enters his classroom and looks just like his old friend but aged, he starts screaming at her that he knows her. She denies it and he shouts "Show me your armpits". Hilarious.

There's also No Game No Life and Ryuugajou Nanana no Maizoukin which supposedly are great, but I just never got into.

Fish and chips is the shit, ask for it breaded. Consider trying a deep fried mars bar too. Breakfasts are awesome, really helps of you can get a hold of a muffin. White pudding is great though I am having difficulty finding it.

BLACK CARDS

If you can discover a better way of life than office-holding for____, a well-governed city becomes a possibility.

Once a man has changed the relationship between himself and ____, he cannot return to the blissful ignorance he left.

____is dangerous and difficult to control, but its products will soon become commonplace in our society.

And can ____ be tricked into hiding from itself?

A bunch of slack-jawed faggots around here! This stuff will make you ___. Just like me.

____ is only movement and love; it is the living infinite.

The wicked have told me of things that delight them, but not such things as ___.

Cry HAVOC! And let slip ___!

___ is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

If tyranny ever came to this land, it will be in the guise of ___.

The voice of the people is the voice of ____.

"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have ___thrust upon them.

It will happen, and it will happen in our lifetimes. ___isn't just the future. ____ is now.

The price of freedom is ___.

I have seen enough of ___ never to wish to see another.

___ is the essential concept and the first truth.

____ is only a receptacle for all the prodigious, supernatural things that exist
inside it.

A scientist must be ____, in order to block out the incessant chorus of those who say "It cannot be done."

When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of____, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it.

___ rests at the apex of the first triad of victory, for it combines Mobility, Flexibility, and Initiative.

For only in such a state will those rule who are truly rich, not in gold, but in the wealth that makes happiness, ____.

Important? Yes! Critical? Absolutely. I would go so far as to say that ____alone makes our present economy possible.

Our ancestors harnessed the power of ___, and so again shall we.



PLAY TWO

Without ____ no object would be given to us, without ____ no object would be thought.

Thoughts without ____are empty, intuitions without ____ are blind.

___ and ____ have, when taken together, a geometric effect on overall military strength.

I maintain that yin-yang dualism can be overcome, and we can give substance to any distinction: mind without body, north without south, ____ without ___.

Men will ultimately be governed by ___ or ___.



WHITE CARDS

Self-Aware Machines

Tig ol' Bitties

The dogs of war

moral value

Goddamn Space Tigers

Forklift jousting

A homo-erotic volleyball montage.

Desert nomads

the Final Fantasy XIII game guide

Kicking tires and lighting fires

Nonlinear Mathematics

Non-Euclidean geometry

Schadenfreude
(Goes great with a certain je ne sais qwahh (which I gave up trying to spell half way through (jeez I just spelled schadenfreude correctly give me a break)))

"anything on the face of this earth" is a pretty good white card.

Also "a time machine that has yet to be invented". I didn't think it'd be that great, but I keep finding quotes like "The good times of today, are a time machine that has yet to be invented of tomorrow."

Novelty gag dildo

WHITE CARDS

Game balance.

Drow blackface

Total Party Kill.

Gelatinous Cubes.

75 Does. 1 Buck. Ultimate deer fuck.

A Doritos flavored gas chamber.

The white man's burden

A planet where apes evolved from men?!

Dissociated mechanics.

The U.S. government.

Gamer chicks

Cultural Marxism.

Dice inserted somewhere painful.

Lesbian stripper ninjas.

Dividing by zero.



BLACK CARD - PICK 1

This new ____ isn't very good.

Sometimes ___ is better when you least suspect it.

Victory often rests on ____ being in the right place and at the right time.

Once in a great while mankind unlocks a secret so profound that our future is altered forever. Fire, electricity,____.

My innovative new RPG has a stat for___.

A true gamer has no problem with __________.

____: The Storytelling Game

"_____" is like saying "Hello" in Japan

You start with 1D4____ points.

____ Was also stolen by the white man.

___ is fun for the entire family.

Big Eyes, Small _____


BLACK CARD - PICK 2

____ For the ___ God! ___ for the ___ throne!

Only ___ can cooperate. __ can only beg.

It's allowed. People still come by and read the old trucks looking for answers.

It's great that you're trying to help, but you're posting in trucks that are 2-3 years old.

The cave story run was great. A donator asked a guy to slap the runner, and they did... really hard. Then later another donator asked the same guy to hug him to make up for the slap. So he did. And it was a long, sensual hug, that ended with a gentle kiss on the cheek. It was all so wonderful.

So do you not want to be able to see the great rod sticking out or what?

Okay, I have gotten my compile time down with 50% on this map I'm making by me removing the solids that I left in the air with "NULL" on them(Great thing).

To the questions:
ALLOCBLOCK? What do I do to remove the % of usage on it? Honestly, everyone that has written an answer is telling me it could be:

WAD SIZE - I've only been using the huge wads because I wanted to have everything I could ever need ready for me. This problem will be removed for my next attempt to compile this map.
Scaling of the textures that I've used in my map, I will be honest and say alot of the 256x256 are maybe 0,5-0,3 of their original scale. Even tho me personaly I think it should just have an effect on light/bounce.

Amount of Entities? As in the picture I have right here:
you can clearly see my entity use is not that great.
BUT! I have binded plenty of solids into one func_illusionary - could this cause bugs? It shouldn't right? They are spread out on the map it's not just one big piece of solids.

Are there any commands to be able to get the AllocBlock to get more space?

CLIP brush usage? I always put it around my map because I think it's simple and very easy to block players from going wherever they are not allowed to.

Will I need another program like QuArK to be able to remove this problem?

Final question - for now: How do I get to these places? Like for example:
Warning: Ambiguous leafnode content ( EMPTY and SOLID ) at
---> (-2474,-3964,-16 )(-2467,-3963,24) <--- How do I get to these coordinates? Honestly theres just no way of finding out where the heck that is on my map?

---> in hull 0 of model 84 <-- Where the hell is my model 84 and how do I get to it aswell?

(entity: classname "func_illusionary", origin "", targetname "")


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hlcsg v3.4 VL31 (Oct 14 2013)
Zoner's Half-Life Compilation Tools -- Custom Build
Based on code modifications by Sean 'Zoner' Cavanaugh
Based on Valve's version, modified with permission.
Submit detailed bug reports to (vluzacn@163.com)
----- BEGIN hlcsg -----
Command line: D:\Program\WORLDC~1\tools\hlcsg.exe d:\program\worldcraft\maps\BETATEST -texdata 8000 -wadinclude BETATEST.wad
Arguments: d:\program\worldcraft\maps\BETATEST -texdata 8000 -wadinclude BETATEST.wad -low -wadautodetect
Entering d:\program\worldcraft\maps\BETATEST.map

Current hlcsg Settings
Name | Setting | Default
---------------------|-----------|-------------------------
threads [ 4 ] [ Varies ]
verbose [ off ] [ off ]
log [ on ] [ on ]
reset logfile [ on ] [ on ]
developer [ 0 ] [ 0 ]
chart [ off ] [ off ]
estimate [ off ] [ off ]
max texture memory [ 8192000 ] [ 33554432 ]
max lighting memory [ 33554432 ] [ 33554432 ]
priority [ Low ] [ Normal ]

noclip [ off ] [ off ]
null texture stripping[ on ] [ on ]
clipnode economy mode [ off ] [ off ]
clip hull type [ simple ] [ simple ]
onlyents [ off ] [ off ]
wadtextures [ on ] [ on ]
skyclip [ on ] [ on ]
hullfile [ None ] [ None ]
wad configuration file[ None ] [ None ]
wad.cfg group name [ None ] [ None ]
nullfile [ None ] [ None ]
nullify trigger [ on ] [ on ]
min surface area [ 0.000 ] [ 0.000 ]
brush union threshold [ 0.000 ] [ 0.000 ]
map scaling [ None ] [ None ]
light name optimize [ on ] [ on ]
UTF8 game_text [ on ] [ on ]

Using mapfile wad configuration
Wadfiles not in use by the map will be excluded
Wadinclude list :
[zhlt.wad]
[betatest.wad]

CreateBrush:
(2.36 seconds)
CSGBrush:
(1.77 seconds)

Using Wadfile: \program\worldcraft\wads\christmasultimatemaddafakka.wad
- Contains 45 used textures, 23.32 percent of map (472 textures in wad)
Including Wadfile: \program\worldcraft\wads\BETATEST.wad
- Contains 141 used textures, 73.06 percent of map (246 textures in wad)
Using Wadfile: \program\worldcraft\wads\chateau.wad
- Contains 7 used textures, 3.63 percent of map (136 textures in wad)

Wad files required to run the map: "christmasultimatemaddafakka.wad;chateau.wad;"

added 30 additional animating textures.
Texture usage is at 7.18 mb (of 7.81 mb MAX)
4.97 seconds elapsed

----- END hlcsg -----



hlbsp v3.4 VL31 (Oct 14 2013)
Zoner's Half-Life Compilation Tools -- Custom Build
Based on code modifications by Sean 'Zoner' Cavanaugh
Based on Valve's version, modified with permission.
Submit detailed bug reports to (vluzacn@163.com)
----- BEGIN hlbsp -----
Command line: D:\Program\WORLDC~1\tools\hlbsp.exe d:\program\worldcraft\maps\BETATEST
Arguments: d:\program\worldcraft\maps\BETATEST -low -chart

Current hlbsp Settings
Name | Setting | Default
-------------------|-----------|-------------------------
threads [ 4 ] [ Varies ]
verbose [ off ] [ off ]
log [ on ] [ on ]
developer [ 0 ] [ 0 ]
chart [ on ] [ off ]
estimate [ off ] [ off ]
max texture memory [ 33554432 ] [ 33554432 ]
priority [ Low ] [ Normal ]

noclip [ off ] [ off ]
nofill [ off ] [ off ]
noinsidefill [ off ] [ off ]
noopt [ off ] [ off ]
no clipnode merging [ off ] [ off ]
null tex. stripping [ on ] [ on ]
notjunc [ off ] [ off ]
nobrink [ off ] [ off ]
subdivide size [ 240 ] [ 240 ] (Min 64) (Max 512)
max node size [ 1024 ] [ 1024 ] (Min 64) (Max 65536)
remove hull 2 [ off ] [ off ]


SolidBSP [hull 0] 500...1000...1500...2000...2500...3000...3500...4000...4500...5000...5500...6000...6500...7000...7500...7693 (2.14 seconds)
BSP generation successful, writing portal file 'd:\program\worldcraft\maps\BETATEST.prt'
SolidBSP [hull 1] Warning: Ambiguous leafnode content ( EMPTY and SOLID ) at (-64,2887,1505)-(400,3280,1733) in hull 1 of model 0 (entity: classname "worldspawn", origin "", targetname "")
Warning: Ambiguous leafnode content ( EMPTY and SOLID ) at (7,2352,1508)-(400,2832,1733) in hull 1 of model 0 (entity: classname "worldspawn", origin "", targetname "")
500...1000...1500...2000...2500...3000...3500...Warning: Ambiguous leafnode content ( EMPTY and SOLID ) at (128,1432,-232)-(129,1433,-148) in hull 1 of model 0 (entity: classname "worldspawn", origin "", targetname "")
4000...4500...5000...5500...6000...6374 (1.57 seconds)
SolidBSP [hull 2] Warning: Ambiguous leafnode content ( EMPTY and SOLID ) at (-64,2903,1501)-(416,3296,1729) in hull 2 of model 0 (entity: classname "worldspawn", origin "", targetname "")
Warning: Ambiguous leafnode content ( EMPTY and SOLID ) at (23,2336,1504)-(416,2848,1729) in hull 2 of model 0 (entity: classname "worldspawn", origin "", targetname "")
500...1000...1500...2000...2500...Warning: Ambiguous leafnode content ( EMPTY and SOLID ) at (112,1448,-228)-(113,1449,-152) in hull 2 of model 0 (entity: classname "worldspawn", origin "", targetname "")
3000...3500...4000...4500...5000...5249 (1.08 seconds)
SolidBSP [hull 3] Warning: Ambiguous leafnode content ( EMPTY and SOLID ) at (-64,2887,1487)-(400,3280,1715) in hull 3 of model 0 (entity: classname "worldspawn", origin "", targetname "")
Warning: Ambiguous leafnode content ( EMPTY and SOLID ) at (7,2352,1490)-(400,2832,1715) in hull 3 of model 0 (entity: classname "worldspawn", origin "", targetname "")
500...1000...1500...2000...2500...3000...3500...4000...4500...5000...5500...6000...6500...7000...7083 (1.71 seconds)
Warning: Ambiguous leafnode content ( EMPTY and SOLID ) at (38,2602,1050)-(44,2602,1092) in hull 1 of model 83 (entity: classname "func_illusionary", origin "", targetname "")
Warning: Ambiguous leafnode content ( EMPTY and SOLID ) at (-81,2585,975)-(-72,2585,993) in hull 2 of model 83 (entity: classname "func_illusionary", origin "", targetname "")
Warning: Ambiguous leafnode content ( EMPTY and SOLID ) at (38,2602,1032)-(44,2602,1074) in hull 3 of model 83 (entity: classname "func_illusionary", origin "", targetname "")
Warning: Ambiguous leafnode content ( EMPTY and SOLID ) at (-2474,-3964,-16)-(-2467,-3963,24) in hull 0 of model 84 (entity: classname "func_illusionary", origin "", targetname "")
Warning: Ambiguous leafnode content ( EMPTY and SOLID ) at (-2474,-3968,-16)-(-2467,-3967,24) in hull 0 of model 84 (entity: classname "func_illusionary", origin "", targetname "")
Warning: Ambiguous leafnode content ( EMPTY and SOLID ) at (-2490,-3948,-52)-(-2451,-3948,-36) in hull 1 of model 84 (entity: classname "func_illusionary", origin "", targetname "")
Warning: Ambiguous leafnode content ( EMPTY and SOLID ) at (-2551,-3947,-20)-(-2530,-3947,-12) in hull 1 of model 84 (entity: classname "func_illusionary", origin "", targetname "")
Warning: Ambiguous leafnode content ( EMPTY and SOLID ) at (-2614,-3948,-65)-(-2592,-3948,-42) in hull 1 of model 84 (entity: classname "func_illusionary", origin "", targetname "")
Warning: Ambiguous leafnode content ( EMPTY and SOLID ) at (-2614,-3948,-53)-(-2592,-3947,-2) in hull 1 of model 84 (entity: classname "func_illusionary", origin "", targetname "")
Warning: Ambiguous leafnode content ( EMPTY and SOLID ) at (-2598,-3984,-65)-(-2592,-3984,17) in hull 1 of model 84 (entity: classname "func_illusionary", origin "", targetname "")
Warning: Ambiguous leafnode content ( EMPTY and SOLID ) at (-2634,-3983,53)-(-2614,-3983,63) in hull 1 of model 84 (entity: classname "func_illusionary", origin "", targetname "")
Warning: Ambiguous leafnode content ( EMPTY and SOLID ) at (-2576,-3931,-16)-(-2563,-3931,-3) in hull 2 of model 84 (entity: classname "func_illusionary", origin "", targetname "")
Warning: Ambiguous leafnode content ( EMPTY and SOLID ) at (-2576,-3931,-9)-(-2566,-3931,1) in hull 2 of model 84 (entity: classname "func_illusionary", origin "", targetname "")
Warning: Ambiguous leafnode content ( EMPTY and SOLID ) at (-2506,-3932,-48)-(-2435,-3932,-32) in hull 2 of model 84 (entity: classname "func_illusionary", origin "", targetname "")
Warning: Ambiguous leafnode content ( EMPTY and SOLID ) at (-2618,-3931,-12)-(-2576,-3931,-8) in hull 2 of model 84 (entity: classname "func_illusionary", origin "", targetname "")
Warning: Ambiguous leafnode content ( EMPTY and SOLID ) at (-2618,-3931,-17)-(-2576,-3931,21) in hull 2 of model 84 (entity: classname "func_illusionary", origin "", targetname "")
Warning: Ambiguous leafnode content ( EMPTY and SOLID ) at (-2652,-3999,50)-(-2628,-3998,81) in hull 2 of model 84 (entity: classname "func_illusionary", origin "", targetname "")
Warning: Ambiguous leafnode content ( EMPTY and SOLID ) at (-2490,-3948,-34)-(-2451,-3948,-18) in hull 3 of model 84 (entity: classname "func_illusionary", origin "", targetname "")
Warning: Ambiguous leafnode content ( EMPTY and SOLID ) at (-2551,-3947,-2)-(-2530,-3947,6) in hull 3 of model 84 (entity: classname "func_illusionary", origin "", targetname "")
Warning: Ambiguous leafnode content ( EMPTY and SOLID ) at (-2467,-3984,-7)-(-2420,-3984,6) in hull 3 of model 84 (entity: classname "func_illusionary", origin "", targetname "")
Warning: Ambiguous leafnode content ( EMPTY and SOLID ) at (-2614,-3948,-47)-(-2592,-3948,-24) in hull 3 of model 84 (entity: classname "func_illusionary", origin "", targetname "")
Warning: Ambiguous leafnode content ( EMPTY and SOLID ) at (-2614,-3948,-35)-(-2592,-3947,16) in hull 3 of model 84 (entity: classname "func_illusionary", origin "", targetname "")
Warning: Ambiguous leafnode content ( EMPTY and SOLID ) at (-2598,-3984,-47)-(-2592,-3984,-4) in hull 3 of model 84 (entity: classname "func_illusionary", origin "", targetname "")
Warning: Ambiguous leafnode content ( EMPTY and SOLID ) at (-2634,-3983,35)-(-2614,-3983,45) in hull 3 of model 84 (entity: classname "func_illusionary", origin "", targetname "")
Warning: Ambiguous leafnode content ( EMPTY and SOLID ) at (-2842,3085,-2375)-(-2827,3085,-2364) in hull 3 of model 85 (entity: classname "func_illusionary", origin "", targetname "")
Reduced 26816 clipnodes to 23848
Reduced 2019 texinfos to 1849
Reduced 223 texdatas to 222 (5331156 bytes to 5330000)
Reduced 33348 planes to 10043
FixBrinks:
Increased 23848 clipnodes to 24213.

Object names Objects/Maxobjs Memory / Maxmem Fullness
------------ --------------- --------------- --------
models 210/512 13440/32768 (41.0%)
planes 10043/32768 200860/655360 (30.6%)
vertexes 35069/65535 420828/786420 (53.5%)
nodes 10416/32767 249984/786408 (31.8%)
texinfos 1849/32767 73960/1310680 ( 5.6%)
faces 25136/65535 502720/1310700 (38.4%)
* worldfaces 20274/32768 0/0 (61.9%)
clipnodes 24213/32767 193704/262136 (73.9%)
leaves 6677/32760 186956/917280 (20.4%)
* worldleaves 4396/8192 0/0 (53.7%)
marksurfaces 31099/65535 62198/131070 (47.5%)
surfedges 119535/512000 478140/2048000 (23.3%)
edges 61067/256000 244268/1024000 (23.9%)
texdata [variable] 5330000/33554432 (15.9%)
lightdata [variable] 0/33554432 ( 0.0%)
visdata [variable] 0/8388608 ( 0.0%)
entdata [variable] 33683/2097152 ( 1.6%)
* AllocBlock 81/64 0/0 (126.6%)
222 textures referenced
=== Total BSP file data space used: 7990741 bytes ===
Wad files required to run the map: "christmasultimatemaddafakka.wad;chateau.wad;"
15.97 seconds elapsed

----- END hlbsp -----



hlvis v3.4 VL31 (Oct 14 2013)
Zoner's Half-Life Compilation Tools -- Custom Build
Based on code modifications by Sean 'Zoner' Cavanaugh
Based on Valve's version, modified with permission.
Submit detailed bug reports to (vluzacn@163.com)
----- BEGIN hlvis -----
Command line: D:\Program\WORLDC~1\tools\hlvis.exe d:\program\worldcraft\maps\BETATESTe -full
Arguments: d:\program\worldcraft\maps\BETATEST -full -low
4396 portalleafs
15364 numportals

-= Current hlvis Settings =-
Name | Setting | Default
-------------------|-----------|-------------------------
threads [ 4 ] [ Varies ]
verbose [ off ] [ off ]
log [ on ] [ on ]
developer [ 0 ] [ 0 ]
chart [ off ] [ off ]
estimate [ off ] [ off ]
max texture memory [ 33554432 ] [ 33554432 ]
max vis distance [ 0 ] [ 0 ]
priority [ Low ] [ Normal ]

fast vis [ off ] [ off ]
full vis [ on ] [ off ]


BasePortalVis:
(7.73 seconds)
LeafThread:
Warning: ChopWinding : rejected(1) due to too many points

Warning: ChopWinding : rejected(1) due to too many points

Warning: ChopWinding : rejected(1) due to too many points

Warning: ChopWinding : rejected(1) due to too many points

Warning: ChopWinding : rejected(1) due to too many points

Warning: ChopWinding : rejected(1) due to too many points

(2759.85 seconds)
average leafs visible: 434
g_visdatasize:570488 compressed from 2417800
2767.95 seconds elapsed [46m 7s]

----- END hlvis -----



hlrad v3.4 VL31 (Oct 14 2013)
Zoner's Half-Life Compilation Tools -- Custom Build
Based on code modifications by Sean 'Zoner' Cavanaugh
Based on Valve's version, modified with permission.
Submit detailed bug reports to (vluzacn@163.com)
----- BEGIN hlrad -----
Command line: D:\Program\WORLDC~1\tools\hlrad.exe d:\program\worldcraft\maps\BETATEST -extra -sparse
Arguments: d:\program\worldcraft\maps\BETATEST -extra -low -vismatrix sparse

-= Current hlrad Settings =-
Name | Setting | Default
--------------------|---------------------|-------------------------
threads [ 4 ] [ Varies ]
verbose [ off ] [ off ]
log [ on ] [ on ]
developer [ 0 ] [ 0 ]
chart [ off ] [ off ]
estimate [ off ] [ off ]
max texture memory [ 33554432 ] [ 33554432 ]
max lighting memory [ 33554432 ] [ 33554432 ]
priority [ Low ] [ Normal ]

fast rad [ off ] [ off ]
vismatrix algorithm [ Sparse ] [ Sparse ]
oversampling (-extra)[ on ] [ off ]
bounces [ 8 ] [ 8 ]
ambient light [ 0.000 0.000 0.000 ] [ 0.000 0.000 0.000 ]
light limit threshold[ 188.000 ] [ 188.000 ]
circus mode [ off ] [ off ]

smoothing threshold [ 50.000 ] [ 50.000 ]
smoothing threshold 2[ no change ] [ no change ]
direct threshold [ 10.000 ] [ 10.000 ]
direct light scale [ 1.000 ] [ 1.000 ]
coring threshold [ 0.001 ] [ 0.001 ]
patch interpolation [ on ] [ on ]

texscale [ on ] [ on ]
patch subdividing [ on ] [ on ]
chop value [ 64.000 ] [ 64.000 ]
texchop value [ 32.000 ] [ 32.000 ]

global fade [ 1.000 ] [ 1.000 ]
global light scale [ 2.000 2.000 2.000 ] [ 2.000 2.000 2.000 ]
global gamma [ 0.550 0.550 0.550 ] [ 0.550 0.550 0.550 ]
global light scale [ 2.000 ] [ 2.000 ]
global sky diffusion [ 1.000 ] [ 1.000 ]

spread angles [ on ] [ on ]
opaque entities [ on ] [ on ]
sky lighting fix [ on ] [ on ]
incremental [ off ] [ off ]
dump [ off ] [ off ]

colour jitter [ 0.0 0.0 0.0 ] [ 0.0 0.0 0.0 ]
monochromatic jitter [ 0.0 0.0 0.0 ] [ 0.0 0.0 0.0 ]

custom shadows with bounce light
[ off ] [ off ]
rgb transfers [ off ] [ off ]
minimum final light [ 0 ] [ 0 ]
size of transfer [ 1 (16bit) ] [ 1 (16bit) ]
size of rgbtransfer [ 2 (32bit) ] [ 2 (32bit) ]
soft sky [ on ] [ on ]
translucent depth [ 2.000 ] [ 2.000 ]
block opaque [ on ] [ on ]
ignore textures [ off ] [ off ]
reflectivity gamma [ 1.760 ] [ 1.760 ]
reflectivity scale [ 0.700 ] [ 0.700 ]
blur size [ 1.500 ] [ 1.500 ]
no emitter range [ off ] [ off ]
wall bleeding fix [ on ] [ on ]


Load Textures:
Using Wadfile: d:\program\worldcraft\maps\BETATEST.wa_
222 textures referenced
Reading texlights from 'D:\Program\WORLDC~1\tools\lights.rad'
0 opaque models
0 opaque faces
25136 faces
Create Patches : 99732 base patches
1520196 square feet [218908352.00 square inches]
1 direct lights and 16386 fast direct lights
1 light styles

FindFacePositions:
(12.61 seconds)
BuildFacelights:
(261.15 seconds)
BuildVisLeafs:
(261.93 seconds)
visibility matrix : 129.2 megs
MakeScales:
(270.27 seconds)
Transfer Lists : 388612874 : 388.61M transfers
Indices : 115699972 : 110.34M bytes
Data : 777507994 : 741.49M bytes
Bounce 1 GatherLight:
(9.04 seconds)
Bounce 2 GatherLight:
(9.12 seconds)
Bounce 3 GatherLight:
(9.11 seconds)
Bounce 4 GatherLight:
(9.08 seconds)
Bounce 5 GatherLight:
(9.02 seconds)
Bounce 6 GatherLight:
(9.09 seconds)
Bounce 7 GatherLight:
(9.06 seconds)
Bounce 8 GatherLight:
(9.07 seconds)
AddPatchLights:
(6.02 seconds)
FinalLightFace:
(0.12 seconds)
889.16 seconds elapsed [14m 49s]

----- END hlrad -----

I had a dream last night. In it, I was a mob hitman. I was a cold-blooded killer in a highly organized mafia that had a firm grip on the city I lived in. The mafia was notoriously more powerful than the police, did not hesitate to kill anyone who crossed them... and were strangely honest, fair and straightforward about it. Essentially there were three fatally important rules: You don't rat out the mob, you don't steal from the mob, and you don't attack anyone in the mob.

I had many homicidal encounters, one notable one in which I was only supposed to shoot one woman for informing the police about our activities. I almost couldn't believe it when I was told about it, as she had supposedly called the cops after seeing a few mobsters get rough with a businessman that wasn't paying his protection money. She practically commit suicide by ratting us out, and for something the police probably wouldn't even act on!

Once at her house, I got in quick and I shot her in the back. She never saw it coming, all was well... until her husband came home right as I was leaving. Upon seeing my car in the driveway, a dead-giveaway mobster town car, he already knew his wife was dead, and he was frantically calling the police. I was all, "Ah, come on! Whaddya gotta call the cops for, that's what did your wife in! Now I gotta shoot you too! I can't believe how stupid that was! I'm standing right here! With a gun!"

So I did kill him, although it was really more of a suicide. He was, however, coming home from the grocery store, and his daughter had been collecting comestibles from their SUV. Unfortunately for both of us, she decided to steal my car while I was busy phoning my bosses about things getting more complicated. I had left the car running with the keys in the ignition for a quick get away, but it had backfired on me fiercely. Since I had the dad's keys, I jumped in the SUV to chase her down and get back my boss's car. I knew there was barely any gas in my car, because I had been stupid and forgot to fill it up, so it was only a couple of miles before I caught up to her frantically trying to refuel at a gas station. Strictly following the rules would mean I'd have to shoot her too, since she stole the car, even though she had heard me yelling that all her dad had to do was 'nothing' if he didn't want to get shot. So I started yelling at her that all she had to do was 'nothing' if she didn't want to get shot, but I also wasn't quite cold-blooded enough to shoot a kid without hesitation.

I started telling her that I was going to try to get special dispensation from the bosses to let her off the hook, when, unfortunately for all three of us, two cops came to a stop at the gas station in their cruiser. The girl, obviously in a panic, got their attention whether she wanted to or not, and I had to quickly react and shoot both of the officers as well, as this wasn't going to go down any other way that didn't get me killed or imprisoned. At this point there was enough evidence splattered around the place from all four of us bleeding for various reasons that I decided I needed to do a quick clean-up job. Luckily, someone always kept a quantity of plastic explosives in the trunk of the car, so I decided to blow up the entire gas station... I didn't actually check to see if there was an attendant present, so I may have unintentionally killed even one more person. The girl, after both trying to run away and also use her phone (like seriously, why does everyone keep giving me reasons to shoot them!?) had annoyed me enough that I decided to replace the explosives in the trunk with her sans electronic communication devices. I drove away and set off the bomb, turning the whole scene into a crater, and the bodies of the officers into seared particulates.

The headquarters was a very lavish office building with heavily armed and well dressed guards standing in plain view of the woebegone police. I dragged the now exhausted, timid, and thankfully compliant girl up to see the most important wiseguy I could find. The don was out, but the consigliere was in, and that was good enough for me. I told him how crazy the simple whack job got, and how the girl only 'temporarily' borrowed my ride, so maybe I could just... not shoot her... if that would be okay? After silently staring at me during my long tale of adventure he suddenly looked very pleased. He told me he was surprised that I took initiative all the times I should, and that I came to him about the girl. I didn't even need to beg, he demanded I let the girl go immediately. According to him, icing a kid is bad for the public image, and not worth the minuscule chance she'd get us all pinched.

At this point I had time to think about what had happened, and I realized I'd unnecessarily blown up the girl's parent's SUV along with the gas station. It was almost brand new, and I didn't want nobody calling me cheap or irresponsible, so I gave her thirty large as the approximate value of the vehicle. Mind you, in my head this was just being an honest man, and the 'recently having killed her parents' didn't even factor into it. I told the girl she better suppress her family gene for committing suicide on the mob, and also told her if she wanted to come looking for vengeance it would be nice if she waited a few years until she was an adult, so that when I whacked her it wouldn't make me look like a son of a bitch.

Later on, I had a very interesting, if not incredibly frustrating conversation with a couple wiseguys. The mob suspected an associate of being up to something, we didn't know what, but we were looking into it. The twit had been sweating and twitching like crazy the last time a capo started talking to him, and he seemed like he was trying to avoid us altogether. So the three of us had a few words with him at his place of residence. We told him to stay home, not let anybody in, and not touch the phone. It was part keeping him from going on the lam while we checked out what he'd been up to, and part to see if he'd make a run for it, giving us no reason to doubt his ambiguous treachery.

We holed up in the attic of the house across the street with a high-tech x-ray scope sniper rifle, so we could shoot him as soon as he did what we expected him to, or we got called about him being a rat... or a thief... or whatever the hell he did. Now, these two jokers were made men, they had nothing to worry about. Even if they screwed the gig up they'd get a slap on the wrist a worst... but I wasn't made yet, even as hard as I was trying, so I had a vested interest in not cocking anything up. Seeing as these two had only begrudgingly agreed to be part of something as lowly as keeping an eye on possible rat, they weren't taking it very seriously. While we should have been quiet and attentive, we instead had an incredibly insipid conversation, it went something like this:

Me: "Alright, alright, so Vinnie, you're here to shoot the rifle, and I'm here to keep an eye out for trouble, but what's he doin' here?"

Vincent: "I'm not Vinnie you goof, dats Vinnie."

Me: "You're messing with me, the boss called you Vinnie not twenty minutes ago."

Vinnie: "Nah, we call me Vinnie, we call him Vincent."

Me: "Wait, you're both Vinnie?"

Vincent: "You got it all wrong, he's Vinnie, I'm Vincent.

Me: (Pointing at Vincent) But the boss called you Vinnie, I did not get you two confused. (pointing at Vinnie) You weren't even there!"

Vincent: "Yeah, so what?"

Me: "So what? So you're Vinnie too!"

Vincent: "What, you mean I shoulda corrected the boss? Forget about it!"

Me: "Well why's he gotta send both of you on the same job? Two guys he calls Vinnie? It's like a liability or somethin', gonna get the wires crossed!"

Vinnie: "The boss didn't send me, he doesn't even know I'm here."

Me: (exasperated) "Well then let's get back on track, whaddya doin' here, Vinnie?"

Vincent: "He owed me a favor, this rat could take hours to do somethin' stupid, and given the experience so far, I'd probably end up shooting myself before I shot him if I had to shoot the shit with your stupid ass the whole time."

Me: "Hey, if I knew this gig was a plus one I woulda brought a date, not some fat asshole, nothin' personal Vinnie."

Vinnie: "Hey! You want me to whack you or somethin'?"

Vincent: "C'mon Vinnie, you are a fat asshole, give the kid a break."

Vinnie: "Ah, forget about it!"

Me: "Hey, not to dampen this mood we got goin', but I've seen our rat walk by the window like half a dozen times while you been lookin' back at me. You gonna actually keep an eye on him or should I hold the rifle?"

Vincent: "Nobody touches this beauty but me. Not yet, I haven't even given her a name yet, and she's still a virgin!"

Me: "Alright, I won't touch your lady-friend, just keep your eyes on her or she's gonna get jealous."

Vinnie: (suddenly and very disbelieving) "I wasn't payin' attention, did you say Theresa's a virgin?"

Vincent: "Nah, the rifle not my girl."

Vinnie: "Ah, I was gonna ask you why she was wailing like banshee if you weren't, you know..."

Vincent: "Shut the hell up, Vinnie."

Vinnie: "Yeah, yeah."

Me: "Come on, you were lookin' through that scope for a total of six and a half seconds before you turned around and started jabbering to Vinnie again."

Vincent: (turning back to look through the scope) "Sorry, mom."

Me: "He get away yet?"

Vincent: "Nah, he's still scurrying about like a rat in a maze. I wish he'd sit still so I could shoot him more easy. Wait, you think he knows I'm up here, that we're gonna find somethin' out?"

Vinnie: "He'd have to be a real top-notch goof not to think we're watchin' his stupid ass."

Me: "Which makes him nervous, he's just nervous, a nervous guy is gonna pace whether or not he's a canary. Just keep an eye on him or he'll fly away!"

Vincent: "Whatever."

A minute goes by with Vincent actually watching the rat.

Vinnie: "I'm glad I had two cups a coffee before you picked me up."

Vincent: "Tell me about it, I'd fall right out the window if I'd skipped my fix."

Vincent has turned around again, I am glaring rancorously to no effect.

Vinnie: "Nothin' wakes you up like a black cuppa joe."

Vincent: "Black? Whaddya wanna knock yourself back out? You gotta make it smooth and sweet, somethin' to relax the hangover."

Vinnie: "Aw, come on, that's a woman's drink, don't tell me you drink it like that."

Vincent: "With two creams and two sugars or I'll go wild."

Vinnie: "You ain't kiddin'! I can hardly believe it, you iced more marks than I can count to and you drink it like that?"

Vincent: "Whassat gotta do with it? You're the nut job, drinkin' that swill, why dontcha just chew on the beans at that rate?

Vinnie: "Rather that then grow a pair of tits drinkin' what you drink."

Vincent: "You see, he's right, you are a fat asshole!"

Vinnie: "Well, maybe your new boyfriend can take you on a date when you've dolled yourself up with your lady drink."

Vincent: "You got bigger tits than Theresa, Vinnie, you're the one drinking the wrong kinda joe."

I cut Vinnie off before he can retort.

Me: "Oh my god, stop talking about tits or coffee or whatever and watch the fucking rat."

Vincent: "Hey, this is deep, we gotta figure this out."

Me: "We're gonna be deep underground if you let him get away."

Vinnie: "Nah, just you, we're made, we'll just say you messed it up."

Me: "Oh, that's just great, why don't you just shoot me now?!"

Vinnie: "I'm pullin' your leg! We wouldn't do that. Probably. Besides, he's not goin' nowhere, he's too busy stomping a track into his kitchen floor."

Me: "That'll be great comfort when the boss has my thumbs broken."

Vincent: "Stop changing the subject, new guy, you gotta break the tie."

Vinnie: "Yeah, it's gotta be black, right?"

Me: "Man I hardly even drink coffee, I don't fuckin' know."

Vinnie & Vincent: "What?!"

Vinnie: "This guy doesn't drink coffee? Where'd you find this asshole, Vinnie?!"

Vincent: "I-"

Me: "HEY! You just called him Vinnie! I knew it!"

Vinnie: "Wha- no I- you had me confused, you don't drink coffee, the hell is wrong with you?!"

Me: "It's just a drink, don't get so worked up about it."

Vinnie: "Ah, forget about it!"

Vincent: "Yeah, we'll have to ask the don, he'll set it straight, whaddya care what this cugine thinks, anyway?"

Vinnie: "Alright, alright, but I got another question."

Me: "I'm sure you do, Vincent, the rat, the rifle, at least pretend you give a shit!"

Vincent: (Turning back around to check on the rat again) "Ah, he's still there."

Me: "You sure?"

Vincent: "No, where the hell did he go?"

Me: "What?!"

Vincent: "Haha, gotcha!"

Vinnie and Vincent have a good long guffaw.

Me: "Remind me to knock out a few of your teeth when they confirm me, wiseguy."

Vincent: "You're welcome to try, if you want a free trip to the hospital."

Vinnie: "Damn it, I said I had another question, I'm gonna forget it!"

Vincent: "Alright, what?"

Vinnie: "So, you gotta think about this. But if you had to pick one, and one to be gone foreva, coffee or tea?"

Vincent: "What kind of a stupid ass ques-"

Vinnie: "No, no, no! You gotta look at the big picture, I ain't talkin' about you and me, I'm talkin' about the whole world."

Vincent: "That's still a stupid ass question, Vinnie, Tea can take a hike, everybody drinks coffee every day!"

Vinnie: "Sure, sure, here in America, but I said the whole world, Vince, you gotta really think about it!"

Vincent: "Alright, I thought about it, and you're an idiot."

Vinnie: "You know how many people need tea like we need coffee! Fuckin' China and the Brits, that's gotta be half the world!"

Vincent: "China and England aren't half the world, Vinnie.

Vinnie: "I was givin' an example or somethin', gimmie a break. But you gotta admit, those Brits would be jumpin' off Big Ben by the millions if they lose their tea. S'why I'm sayin' you gotta really think about."

Vincent: "Where do you come up with this shit? Alright, new guy, coffee is more important than tea. Vinnie's an idiot, right?

Me: "Look, I told you I don't even drink coffee."

Vincent whips around, rifle and all.

Vincent: "You're siding with this son of a bitch?!"

Me: "Whoa! I'm not siding with nobody, I just don't give a shit, Vince, point that thing somewhere else!"

Vincent: "Nah, I'm just messin' with you again!"

Vinnie and Vincent have another hearty guffaw.

Me: "For the love of baby Jesus, could you quit yappin' and keep an eye on the rat for more than ten seconds?!"

Vincent: "Nah, it doesn't matta."

Me: "What?"

Vincent: "The boss texted me five minutes ago, he's no rat, he's just nervous."

Me: "Then what have we been doin' here?!"

Vincent: "Talkin' about coffee and tits and shit, whaddya think?"

Vinnie: "Yeah, we gotta figure this stuff out, it can't be all about whackin' a rat."

Me: "Can I go back to having a shootout with the cops? At least then I knew what the hell was going on."

Vinnie: "You had a shootout with the cops?"

Vincent: "And he blew up a gas station."

Vinnie: "That was you?!"

Me: "Yeah, no big deal, there was blood, bullets and bodies everywhere, I didn't have time to clean it the slow way, so I just made a crater out of it.

Vinnie: "Damn it, I stop at that place for coffee! Why you gotta mess things up? I oughta pop you one!"

Me: "You're not serious."

Vincent: "He's catching on, Vinnie, I think we need a new mark."

Me: "Hey, don't get me wrong, you had me those other times, most people can't pull one over on me like that."

Vincent: "I think we just got a compliment from Mr. by-the-books here, look out the window, are pigs flyin'?

Vinnie: "Nah, just canaries."

Me: "Oh, shut up."

Great!

Noble and manly music invigorates ____, strengthens ____, and incites ____ to great and worthy deeds

WHITE CARDS:

The most intimate details for your life.

Rhythmic pounding

Inviting the cops!

The year of the cat.

Befuddlin' mah dumb cracker mind!

35-year-old high school students

FUTURISTIC SPACE SHIP!

A van down by the river.

One night in Bangkok.

A planet where apes evolved from men.

A GODDAMN SEXASAURUS REX!

The rusted chassis of a '68 Impala!

Slash and burn shaving.

A finely sculpted buttocks.

Chocolate chip juice.

Hula hoops and dungarees.

Wall-mounted keyboards.

A madhouse! A madhouse!

MY SKULL!

My judo bikini

Huge Angular Red Marshmallows.

Skeet Kendo

Solid balsawood, baby!

A battalion of ruthless killer cyborgs.

Vietnam War 2.

Braunschweiger, cars with heaters that don't work, and identification papers

Ultimate test of cerebral fitness.

A healthy eight-and-a-half-pound pork roast.

The battle between good and evil.

Giant Puppet Invasion!

Countrytime Pink Lemonade

Buns of Steel videos.

An electron sex party.

The "World of Barnacles" exhibit.

A respected neurosurgeon!

A three room Japanese apartment.

Noble band of choreographers.

The Roji-Panty Complex.



BLACK CARDS:

Between the time of ___ and the rise of ___, there was an age undreamed of.

If ___ is sure to result in victory, then you must fight.

This will turn you into ___

Whaddya know — we aren't at war with ____.

Men should not have___.

Put ___ in your mouth and clap your hands.

Attention, people of Earth! This is ____speaking!

Arrgh! Sixteen men on ___!

Ladies and Gentlemen, I'm going to suggest to this man that ___ is in danger.

____ is useless, but scare the crap outta me anyway.

Your attempt to get little Susie what's-her-name drunk on lime vodka ended with___

How dare you insult my knowledge of___!

Have you been shaving ___ with this again?

At the end of the day, as long as there's two people left on the planet, someone's going to want___.

___ Now that's a porno name if I ever head one! Not that I've ever heard one!

That's not ___. THIS, is ___.

___? Well, as long as they learn to taste good, I don't really care.

There is only one rule in ____. ____!

____ said no one ever.

I met a strange lady, she made me nervous. She took me in and gave me___.

Be honest with us. ___ really gets your blood going.

Back to the rusting septic system of this____.

Its like a ___. You don't want to stare, but you cant look away.

It's ___ that that Yeats spoke of.

___ The President's unimaginative campaign slogan.

You think you can't get hurt, Doctor, because this is America? ____ and all that jazz?

That is not a woman! That's___!

My job is to keep ____ on the table, and nobody asks me how I do it!

___. . . it must be the future!

You know how some movies inspire you to make your own movie? This one inspires me to make ____

Her mother doesn't like anything. Especially____.

___ stars as ___ in this years most thrilling, action packed, cyber adventure.

I'm starting to agree with the Taliban militia: ___ should not be allowed.

There is three kinds of ___. Those who seek strength. Those who live for pride. And those who are___.

___ has become a killing word.

The only thing needed for ___ to triumph is for good men to do nothing.

Now is not the time for ___. That comes later.

Forward progress is made with a snake-like slither and a vigorous thrashing of ___.

One town's very like another when your head's down over ___, brother

Does the Coast Guard have a lot of use for___?

Every year of my life, I grow more and more convinced that the wisest and best is to fix our attention on ___ and ___...

Alright ___ , you're up. Make us proud.

___ makes a hard man humble.

You are ___ compared to me!

I thought I was being attacked, and I defended myself with ____.

These names are all Russian for____.

So, the premise of this movie is that everyone is____.

When ___ is in ashes, you have my permission to die.

You didn't think you were the only one? ___ was the first ___.

This could've been you, and don't you forget it! Better go back to ___.

If ___ were in the Olympics, Finland would be in great shape!

Life is short. Life is hard. Life is like ____

The KGB has ___under surveillance!

Whoa! I didn't think they had many ____ left in Narnia!


I am judge, jury, and ___.

What if ___ was the best a man could get?

Huh, would you look at that: ____! Even had it underlined!

Hey, I'm experiencing___, and frankly... I LOVE IT!

I hope ___ didn't land on ____ in the front yard.

This ____ can be yours if The Price is Right!

This movie is just ___ and asses!

___ in the projection room! Guess we can't watch the movie!

I get my ___above the waistline, sunshine!

Typical Irishmen, bringing ____ to a car fight!

Well, they couldn't shoot at night because the night belongs to ___.

Throughout human history, ____ has been the first activity of explorers of any new region.

This definitely should not be possible unless one or both belong to an entity.



I agree, but insofar as the generator put them both there, it doesn't really have a preference either. If a human is making it, he/she does.



Hmmm I didn't think of that. The outside area is a recent addition (relatively) just to see what would happen. And to make things less claustrophobic.



OK, that makes sense.



Definitely agree. It would be much better to have as many different algorithms included as possible.



Thanks!



Tee hee

Overlapping brushes, with textures on the same planes, sometimes results in a "shimmering" effect when observed in game as both textures try to render. It also sometimes results in compiler issues. When the compiler does discard one face or the other, it tends to do so in random fashion, making the texture consistency a bit odd.

The sides of the map being open tends to result in mobs wandering off the cliff edges, and all winding up outside. Easily resolved with a func_monsterclip of course, just seems a bit odd.

By "boxing", what I mean is the map appears to have the all too common newbie mapper mistake of being placed inside a giant box to prevent leaks. Now, given the way the map is setup, I'm fairly certain it wouldn't require this to avoid leaks (at least if not for the open sides), it's just the thought I had when first seeing it. This is, again, just odd, and not an actual problem, unlike the overlaps.

The original automapper's settings, while not multi-level, were sometimes a bit more interesting and more AI friendly - and the crate thing was kinda cute. I dunno how hard it'd be to make it alternate between the formulas as it goes down levels, and still have them connected via staircases proper.

Still an awesome little program though.

Ah... The story behind all great art, and of about half my dates, no doubt. ;)

---> http://tinypic.com/r/350ns4y/5 <---

I could not find the right commands to use in this.. I thought I had -chop but obviously not.

Anyone wanna tell me what to use exactly?
Not even Google could get me to the Expert Mode commands..
Also: Sorry for being such a pain in the *** but, practice makes perfect..

What about the -nowadtextures command btw? > The one's included are the ones from the Original maps and the HALF-LIFE & CSTRIKE.wad amirite?
This is what makes me nervous: Does this merge them and include all of them into this map or does this add them all into +size on my compiling? I hope not.. I don't really believe so either, but I'm here to learn.



1. Yeah but theres a few more of those lightbulbs than you see in the picture unfortuanetely.. I will try and use the "fade" texture and use it as lightning instead of all these pointlights and see if would change the outcome of my compiling in anyway.

And YES actually! When I compiled with VHE without expert mode and without VIS(I think it was.. or RAD.. been a few weeks ago since I tested..) the inside of the tunnels & sewers all were Bright as day(which was in my opinion really sweet for the gameplay). But since I got the FPS drops I ofcourse had to go from Normal compiling to Expert Compiling.

If you think I have many now you should have seen before.. JEEZ. Like 400 of them.(Got kinda lazy and CTRL + C was great). But I narrowed it down to about.. 50-80 now. But I will try this "LESS & BRIGHTER" way you mentioned if my "fade" experiment fails, which it problaby does.
I'm so new to the Lightning effects I'm kinda scared to use many since you can't preview before compiling. Old programs are old..
Trying to rely on the Light_enviroment as much as possible, and it worked great before my Sewers & Tunnels were added. + the LEAK that is emerging from the Sewer in some weird matter.

2. I have gone through the map as narrow as I have been capable to do, and the only leakage must be the Sewer, nothing else could cause it(I think........).

I will try this Pointfile thingy and see if it can fix my problem, I'm quite sure it will show the problem(s).
Thank you for that btw!

I will make the logs to func_walls aswell!

Thanks for telling me everything about the MAX_PATCHES problem btw! There's alot of stuff to learn from VHE but since the program is so old all the tutorial websites have pretty much died off. And asking someone for a very specific thing is hard to get a good answer!

About the leak problem I had NOOOOOOO clue about that, thanks alot for the details on those particual problems. I hate leaks so badly lol. Destroying my map(s)!

You win because you have a great heart.

I have downloaded a cs game that has a map that contains a great stuff and now i have reseted my computer and i have lost it
Map Info : Lighthouse with stairs - hostages in a big boat - ct spawn points in a club outside the boat - terroriste spawn point in the big boat
If you know the map plizz let me know im waiting patienetely

Sarcasm

/Sarcasm

Also, I feel like there might be a connection between the irritatingly low maximum speed of light and the non-zero base temperature of the universe. I dream of the possibility that there is some undetected medium (the cause of slight temperature increase) through which light travels as a wave (when it feels like it) and that it could be manipulated to alter the speed of light.

Perhaps I am misinterpreting, but what I meant is that experiment is the ultimate arbiter. You experiment, you make a theory that explains the experiment, maybe it makes a prediction you can test. Great. Anything else is masturbation. Saying that the experiment was an attempt at proof... well, it is what happens. Explaining it is the tricky bit.

At the moment, we are sort of in the "prediction" stage. Though it is expected, or rather hoped, that this will change soon. Say the next 20 years.

Also I have a bit of a problem with the universe, it has chosen some really shitty constraints. Like a speed limit that is not on the same scale as the distance scales of the universe, what the hell physics. Same with Planck's constant: 0 would be great, or a big number would be cool too. Turns out it's just really small. BO-RING.

No way, man. Setting out to prove theories is a great idea. Just observing and changing your theory accordingly is for nerds.

Wow.. this is really nice superjer , great map!

What makes Dead Kings special?
*by special I mean different and unusual, not inherently better, you’ll likely hate at least one of these things.

Strongly averts “because games” logic

The term “because games” is one I have coined myself for the purpose of describing something that gamers have come to expect from games, but that a non-gamer would likely find incredibly nonsensical. These bits of nonsense almost always occur as a result of technological limitations that became traditional and stayed in use even after the technology would support a different or better system. Sometimes simple lack of innovation or laziness results in an example of “because games”.

The worst examples I can give of “because games” logic are about encouraging otherwise needless murder. The first is the apparent soul-stealing property of most heroes in RPGs. I am aware that there are systems that function differently, but the typical method of gaining experience is to kill your enemy. This may seem normal to you, but that is only because you have become accustomed to it. This can actually be somewhat disturbing when analyzed closely. In Dead Kings you must only defeat and not necessarily kill an enemy to gain experience. If they surrendered or retreated, you still gain just as much experience as you would for slaying them. Many games encourage the player to massacre surrendering or retreating enemies, or encourage the player to murder those who are attacking them due to mistaken identity, just to steal a few more souls and level up!

Some games don’t even give the player the option of resolving a situation peacefully, some Ultima games, for example, give the player no method of progression besides cutting down helpless children! The player is meant to be a hero in those stories, not a bloodthirsty murderer of children! It’s not even played as dark humor, it just sort of... happens... like Richard Garriott had no idea how disturbing it was!

The final example is a relatively unheard of game, Temple of Elemental Evil. During the adventure the players come across a brothel. In the brothel the madam informs the player that a new whore refuses to have sex with anyone. The player can offer to see if he can change her mind or ‘break her in’... I know, not an option you expect in the game. I was very surprised at this, as games at the time were far too politically correct to even imply sex, much less rape! I was very exhilarated to see what possible choices could come out of this (for storytelling purposes, the tiny sprites were not going to offer much eroticism, I assure you!), as players were able to be good or evil in the story. It turns out in the dialogue the player has three options with the unfortunate prostitute. They can either leave her alone, free her and take her with them, or supposedly attempt to rape her. If the player attempts to rape her, she screams something along the lines of “over my dead body!” and combat commences. The player then only has the option to strike her down. The heavily armored, up to six very powerful warriors, against a small, naked girl with a knife that she could never even hope to injure them with. She started combat, so she must die! I could have excused the game having even evil players not follow through with sexual assault, and possibly just smack her down and tell her to shut up... but killing her? That goes entirely against the plan to make her into a profitable prostitute! That is the epitome of “because games”, and was the impetus for me to wish to make a game that never forces the player to murder someone when the characters clearly have no motive to do so. The game will never directly tell you not to, but killing people unnecessarily will certainly have consequences in Dead Kings!

In summary, people never even question the bizarre traditions in gameplay, and in many ways they shall be very surprised when their expectations are not met in Dead Kings!

Writers uninfluenced by political correctness
Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for these ideals in real life, games do this because they are trying to appeal to more audiences. But do not be deceived, it is not done out of a desire to make a better story, it is done at the expense of story to make more money. Attempting to please all audiences neuters believability, and some enjoyment for everyone is lost in the process.

These editorial mandates are exhibited in many place, including:

-Normal women arbitrarily being as strong and combat capable as men.
-Equal treatment for sexes, races and sexual preferences.
-Invincible or complete lack of children, so that children cannot be harmed.
-Severely limited options for evil player and non-player characters.
-Evil characters are usually limited to insults, stealing and murder.
-Evil characters are never, ever sexually depraved. It’s okay to murder someone, but rape them?! Heavens, we’re evil, not monsters!

Now, this doesn’t mean that everyone in Dead Kings is an immoral, prejudiced, child raping monster. Just that those things are allowed to exist in Dead Kings. These things all exist without issue in movies, so why not games?

Gameplay uninfluenced by genre expectations

The active gameplay is well established to be recognizable as tactical RPG combat. Except when it’s not. Large scale strategy and even 4X elements are present in the design. On top of that, there are Raising Sim mechanics influenced mostly by Princess Maker titles for if and when the player decides to procreate.

Fantasy world that does not arbitrarily ignore the inequalities of a medieval setting

Nobles are not noble!
Nobles act like real-life nobles. At best they are careless and hedonistic, more often they are heartless predators, abusing the weak for profit or pleasure. This is not because the setting is meant to be ‘dark fantasy’, but because that’s how nobles actually act.

People who attempt to seize or hold onto great power are without exception challenged in their morality. Popular opinion is that there have been many remarkable leaders throughout history; those such as Catherine the Great and Alexander the Great are very well regarded. History would have you replace the word “Great” with “Inhuman Abomination”. Both were arrogant elitists, pointlessly cruel, murderous and utterly irredeemable. Accounts of their lives are marred with the enslavement of countless people and the massacre of any who resisted. They are no better than those the world despises, such as Hitler or Stalin, and yet are renowned as though they have any worth.

Some may argue that there are benevolent kings and queens in history, Elizabeth I of England, for example, but even she has moments of inexcusable evil. Even the theoretical ‘benevolent autocrat’ is still a man or woman controlling the lives of people that he or she has no right to interfere with. Essentially, if they were truly a good person, they would use their power to abolish nobility and replace it with an elected government. The only good kings are the last kings, or those who refused a crown. The point is that nobles in Dead Kings are assholes, because they’re nobles.

The characters in the Dead Kings world are realistically depicted for their classes. The hero of the story may have some moral flexibility in the choices the player may take, but in the end, anyone who wants to control others is of deeply flawed character, and unfortunately he is determined to be king.

A woman holding a sword? Ludicrous!
Women are incapable of complex thought or understanding. They are weak of body and will, and of no use in violent conflict. They are commodities to be traded, and objects to be used for pleasure and progeny. Their word holds no value in court or otherwise, as trust is deserved only by those worthy of respect, and everyone knows only men can be respectable.

This is the average opinion you will find regarding women in Dead Kings, as it is the sort of opinion one finds in a medieval world. It is shared even by the women, even if it upsets them, as they have been subjugated of all authority since birth. Fantasy game worlds inevitably treat men and women very equally, progressive even by modern standards, without even mentioning how unusual it is. I have no problem with an idealized world where women are treated with the respect they deserve, but it has become the norm in fantasy, even clichéd in how expected it is. In fact, I cannot think of any fantasy world, game or otherwise, that depicts the treatment of women with a medieval standard.

Horses and Servants
There is a confusing trend to show rich and noble knights travelling the lands and going on adventure without any of their servants or so much as a horse! A few recent games have remedied the cavalry deficiency, but none have contained a proper retinue of attendants and servants. Even merchants do not travel on foot, and they do not travel alone! In addition to the potential six main party members, the player will eventually obtain a following of dozens of cooks, laborers, squires and soldiers. Menial tasks that would otherwise be performed as tedious fetch quests, or the hauling and management of inventory, will be handled by peasants and retainers. Nobles do not collect twenty mushrooms from a festering swamp to appease a strangely entitled commoner, in fact, the mere suggestion of such a request may offend a noble and put the commoner in a dangerous situation! Why should an affluent noble leave behind heavy loot, or mine and carry loads of valuable ore when he could pay a meagre sum to a few desperate serfs to do it for him? This is also very much a “because games” problem, and was remedied by a much needed dose of common sense.

Balance does not create a rift between plot and combat

During cutscenes characters will not use abilities, magic or otherwise do things that they are not capable of in active gameplay.

This is so brand new an idea to games that you may not even realize the problem exists. This ties into averting “because games”, but I feel it deserves a special mention. It is less a subconscious tradition resulting from technological limitations, and more purely thoughtless writing and design.

Relationships and romance do not pander to “wish fulfillment”

I would describe player driven romances in games to be on the intelligence and maturity level of Mary Sue fan fiction at best. Real romantic relationships are not fueled by giving the correct set of shiny objects to someone, and then completing a side quest. That's not romance, that's a business deal, and shows the kind of emotional understanding seen only in a true basement dweller!

"Oh, I heard she likes cakes! I'll just keep giving her cakes until she'll let me have sex with her! THAT'S HOW IT WORKS, RIGHT?!"

When people are romantically attracted to each other, they give each other presents as a result of an established connection. They have to already like each other for that to happen. Repeatedly giving gifts to someone who has not shown any sign of interest, as games portray love, is a sign of being an obsessive stalker. Games do not understand this very basic interaction. Sharing an emotional bond that may lead to amorous activity in Dead Kings will require that the characters involved share interests, ideals and adventures. They do not need to perform side quests for each other, they must simply do anything at all as long as they do it together. I have found in my life that attempting to 'win a girl over' is a mostly fruitless endeavor, and that it is much easier to find a girl that actually likes me. This experience, which writers for other games have shown no sign of, is used to form the progression of romance in the story.

You'll have to adopt the perverted logic of the game's world.

Glad you guys enjoyed it. We were kind of not too euphoric about this game, because we had this great restriction of needing to make an adventure game and we used to always try to focus on just a few unique features that the player notices right away when starting the game and thus realizes "what's up with the game" and kind of subconsciously decides at the very start if he/she likes the game or not. We couldn't do that here, because it's a more or less "common" adventure game after all. But we're happy with the outcome, so that's sweet.

His running special attack is insanely op when you get accurate with it. Also, cancelling is normal combo at the uppercut and following up with a forward, forward attack is stupid good. His back attack is pretty awesome too, one of the few that is any good.

My favorite character to play so far is Elle, she's really weird to play but so much fun! Her normal combo is GOD AWFUL and only serves as a quick way to hit something so you can get away or cancel into something better. Her throws are meh as well. Her standing special is also very meh. But her moving special is amazing, and her forward forward attacks are great. However... the key for your enemies is to NEVER let you have a weapon. She goes absolutely sickhouse with a knife or sword, no other character comes close. Don't give that bitch a blade if you like your blood where it is.

Shiva, however, is clearly the strongest character. My god that game is easy as Shiva.

Rudra is boring, by the way, don't waste the points until you have little else to unlock.

I dont like ford trucks , my silverado is great

Great googly moogly are danger rooms broken.

So, after enduring a few ambushes in which it was generally a bad time to be a macedwarf, I finally got a 5x5 danger room set up and trained the melee portion of my army up to legendary in weapon skill, fighting, and shield use (which is to say, no patience for dodging or armor use). At present, I have five hammerlords, six macelords, five axe lords, five spearlords, and three swordlords (along with nine marksdwarves of mostly middling ability).

So granted, that's twenty-four legendary squad members off the bat, along with the nine marksdwarves. In the winter of my fourth year in game, the goblins decided to take the gloves off and send a siege of sixteen melee fighters (mostly maces) and a giant olm they were using for war purposes. Rather, they were trying to take the gloves off, but could not remove the gloves, because I had already taken their hands off. Body parts everywhere. The overall skirmish lasted maybe fifteen seconds of game time. My team came out completely unscathed and basically I never have to make clothes because I'm garbing everyone in the robes of the fallen enemies.

I get the same thing, strange. I know I got it working a while before I made this truck. I didn't test it just before posting though.

My internet is too bad for me to install a game on the day I want to play it. I have to start downloading 3-5 days before depending on the game's size.

Yeah, that would've been a great idea if I owned a external drive.

The steam-cloud uploads and downloads save-info such as how for in a story you've gotten in games, what level your character and what gear s/he has in Borderlands etc.

No external HD and I installed my new SSD. Basicly, I have (had) 3 drives. A is a 2TB HDD, B a 600GB HDD, C a 120GB SSD. I had A(windows) and B installed and I wanted to change it to having C(windows) and A. This meant I needed to format A. I could have moved a steam-backup from A to B, replace harddrives to A C and format+ install windows, replace to B C to move the steam backup over, replace to A and C. Then B would still have files on it, which isn't that great for a drive I didn't mean to ever use again.

Long text, Ahoo!

What the fuck .. my Great Mace dissapeared from my inventory after i equipped something else,is it a bug?

Hey punks, in 2012 we released two new games. Go give them a shot, you guys.

First one's our big ass project Lucky Tower 2, which is a prequel to the first part. Attenzione, though, it's got some bugs in there still, sorray! Hit this with your cursor like one of your hyperlinks, handsome!

Other game came out of a GameJam. It's a small game providing some quick messin' around. This miracle of Hypertext Markup Language will guide you the way.

It feels great* to be back, folks. Enjoy them stuff, hurrdurr.




*semi-alright

Autumn, 21

Seasons go by pretty damned quickly when you aren't having to pause or be interrupted for any reason.

There are no pictures for this update because not a great deal has happened, or at least not enough to be worthy of documentation.

Synopsis:

First Migrant wave:

No military skills or social skills. Nothing so much as a hunter.
1 x fishery workers
1 x Crossbowmaker
2 x farmers (one with some rudimentary blacksmithing skills)
1 x all-arounder (has some farming, fishing, and clothesmaking skills)
5 x useless children
0 x aminals (though two cats have adopted owners)

* 2x Stills, Kitchens, Fisheries installed. Delay on butchers, no hunting yet.
* Carving out additional bedrooms so that I can accommodate 17 dwarves.
* Portions of forge cleared (actual forging areas)
* 5x5 plump helmet farm to help stave off starvation.
* Mason's shops and stone stockpiles active. Some furniture produced.

I like building forts at the bottom of the hill a little better. Makes it feel dwarfy.

I'll start Palacelands soon-ish. I started another fort just to dick around. Got to a population of 126 before I was attacked by anything at all. The thing that attacked me was a "weremouse." "Great. This will be comical," I thought. The weremouse spawned right next to a bunch of fishermen and tore through four of them plus a dog before it was attacked by the rest of my squad. One of them was one of my better hunters, who just happened to be fishing. It was probably for the best that hunter had her skull torn open because she was the only one that got bit and I don't need no weremice running around clawtearing up my fortress.

So, here's the deal, goons. Since this was marginally popular, I'm going to be starting a new truck for a new fortress and trying to document as much of the preposterous bullshit that is happening as I can. This will be no kind of news to most people who already play Dwarf Fortress, but to the rest of us who are just now familiarizing ourselves, it'll be a lark.

Right now, there are two worlds that I've gotten decent embark sites on.

1. "Palacelands"
Stupid name. Hilariously so. I'm lodged between the haunted region of the map four squares to the south and the civilizations several more squares to the east. This could result in Fun. Near as I can tell, I have no visible iron either. And I have a waterfall! There is a great deal of potential here for horrifying things to happen, and thus it is an early favorite.

2. "Plankboard"
Plankboard's position isn't interesting. It's not too close to any other civs and certainly not to any kind of interesting terrain, though it does have iron. Where it excels is that Plankboard is in a universe called the Windy Plane, on the Continent of Bleaching, in a subregion called the Spike of Treaties, and most importantly, the river adjacent is Breakfastboys the Good Shore. HOLY SHIT.

I'm siding with Palacelands because there's more potential for peril there, and peril is inherently interesting, but being next to a river known as Breakfastboys the Good Shore is hard to pass up on.

While I looked it up and it seems great, stop calling it MOBA, it's so freaking gay

I concur.

What a great truck.

I had a dream last night.
Someone here suggested that we have a giant meetup.
I think it was rockbomb.
We all went to the library and stood around awkwardly, trying to figure out who was who.
There were a couple people that I knew in real life. Shit was weird.
I had sex with one of you. I forget who. It wasn't great.

It wasn't a very good dream.

Rumours is great. My mother is a huge fan, this album is simply brilliant. I'm also a bit of a one for Paul Simon (as are my parents).

INC LONG ASS TEXT!

so i did a turnable thing with 4 DJ's for my page and i got ALOT of great music, although most of it is dubstep.

but i havent found a song that is bad.

whats funny are the comments proclaiming how great the country is, because err its not

I actually have that album as a playlist on Spotify, it's great for studying to :)

Ixtapa's a great tune.

This is now a truck about HoN.

So I just started playing this game and I want to learn to play at least one hero that I can buy then. What I want is just your basic initiator/tank with lots of cc. I've played Cthuluphant these 3 or 4 games and while he's great and all, he really has only one cc/initiate ability (well, that and the passive E ability, but I prefer activation abilities and if possible a cc ultimate).
Recommendations please!

Haha, great find. Loading and playing songs doesn't work for me there right now though.

So, Tribes Ascend. It's in open beta right now, it's great, I love it, No AJ, I haven't played the old and better versions of the game.

Also, I did quite well this one time and shall use this to brag. I am Zhole.

I believe even just x = x++ isn't valid, no?

Look for stuff about floats on altdevblogaday. It's great.



This isn't valid C, why? What is the new value of x?

I don't remember most of this dream, but I remember enough of it to mention a detail or two.

So, I dreamed that I woke up in the middle of the night because there was a helichopter buzzing around my neighborhood and then above my house. It started peering in my windows and the rest of the windows on the upper level and I could see it clearly even though the shades were drawn (it had a really bright light or something) and there were about six SWAT guys in it.

I went to the top of the stairs and found out that all the lights were on down there and the SWAT fellows were wandering around, not being stealthy or anything. They said that they were following someone and that there was a trail of blood that seemed to end on my back porch and go inside and that's why they were looking around.

At the time, I was less concerned with the fact that someone could be in my house and bleeding as much as the risk that the SWAT guys might discover my hidden cache of ghost drugs. You see, earlier in the dream, for whatever reason, I had been talking to a drug dealer who for equally unknown reasons decided that he was going to unload his stash of drugs on me as they were supposedly defective. It was a variety of random hallucinogens, stimulants, and depressants, I seem to remember cocaine figuring prominently in the mix. It may have mostly been cocaine. So after accepting these drugs I took them home to inspect what was there, figuring I could probably sell them to some poor fool and while looking through the cocaine pouch a ghostly light went off and I was transferred to the spirit world. (DISCLAIMER: I DON'T USE OR DEAL ILLEGAL DRUGS, ESPECIALLY NOT ONES WITH GHOSTS/DEMONS IN THEM)

I'm sure you're curious what the spirit world looks like! From what I saw, it looks like the lower level/basement of a house that was built in the 70s/80s with the textured sparkly ceiling and the run down carpeting and all that, except there was no furniture, it went on forever in all directions, and the only source of light were windows that were about three-quarters of the way up into the wall. The spirit world is also inhabited. The most prominent resident I remember talking to was a man who looked like a taller, spindlier version of early 90s Vanilla Ice, except instead of being so coifed his hair was messy and patchy and he looked like he was wearing Beetlejuice make-up. I didn't really get a good vibe from him, but I didn't think that he was out to cause any harm to me personally (this was the extent of my assessment) and it was more of a very clear and distinct sense that he and I were from different planes of existence and were going to regard earthly matters from very different perspectives.

As soon as I snapped back to the material realm, my first thought was "holy shit, I bet these ghost drugs are worth a ton on the black market! Alls I need to do is find a buyer!" So I hid them somewhere in my room and was waiting it out until I could explore the market the next day. Except that night happened and so did the SWAT team and the mysterious bleeding person.

Because by this point in the dream I was having all kinds of great ideas, it seemed perfectly sensible to go rummaging through my room looking for the polterdrugs while the SWAT team was downstairs and could conceivably move their search upstairs at any moment. Except that I couldn't find the drugs anywhere. I went through my room and my closet for SEVERAL MINUTES and the only things I could find were bits of sawdust and adapter cables to make newer monitors function with older video cards. After that, I thought "well, fuck it, if I can't find them, there's no way in hell the SWAT team will be able to find them. I must have put them somewhere else!" And then I went out into the hall and the dream ended shortly thereafter.

At no point in time did it occur to me that the bleeding person that SWAT team was chasing probably stole my ghost drugs.

And this was all after I went off NyQuil.

Looks exciting!

Speaking of shadows, Saints Row the Third stops rendering shadows when you enter a menu. I'm not sure why. Great work though!

its like the bird is a magical godess and you are saying to the bird

Yes I arrived .

Then the bird says

BOW TO ME ..

then you

your wish is my command oh great one

ALRIGHT just finished all of my list and to anybody concern i will say what i thought about it.

Lain- I Just got done with it and it was hard to follow at the beginning but i got interested in it around the 4th episode then everything kinda sorta made sense. it was a great point of view and i enjoyed it. the end left me kinda derp.


durarara- i liked the action, everybodys personality, and the story. that's it.

Black Lagoon- i hate the main character of the story. but i loved the action and the back story on the other people. duno if there is gonna be another season but i would watch it.

ergo proxy- dunno how to explain this, but it was interesting. the concept of the entire thing was amazing. hard as hell to follow half the time.

MLP FIM-

outlaw star- if i was to advertise this program i would say it is like gurren lagann but with none of the fun.

Spice and Wolf- :I

Oh, I didn't mean to imply that Bush's plan would have worked flawlessly. His plan was bullshit from the beginning, and it should have never been executed to begin with. He used the attacks that took place on 9/11 as an excuse to start this "war against terror", which might sound good on the surface, but really it was just used as a reason for us to be attacking all these other countries. And look where we are now... the two main targets we were going after, Saddam Hussein and Obama Bin Laden, are both dead, yet we continue attacking...






Well, to start... we have a minimum wage that keeps getting raised higher and higher. In fact, I believe they just raised it again last week. Businesses can't afford to pay all of their employees at the minimum wage, so they send the work to other countries who will work for much, much less. To add to that, it seems that most people in the US always come up with the same excuse of "Well, Americans wouldn't work for that little of money anyway.", but... I guarantee if you ask anyone that's been searching for a job, they'd be HAPPY to work for even 20% of what the current minimum wage is. So I think that lifting the minimum wage would be a great place to start.

On top of that, there are all kinds of fees that (most) businesses have to pay here, that they don't have to pay if they send the work to other countries. I don't know any numbers off the top of my head, but I'll do some Googling and see if I can come up with some for you.

Also, to start up a new business in the US can take several years to get everything done. Then, once you finally get it started up, you've got to meet all sorts of different inspection standards and whatnot, or you'll get shut down and have to start the process over.






What's wrong with being old, white, and rich?
White we can cross off the list completely, unless you're racist, in which case... go fuck yourself
Old... I don't see anything wrong with being old. In fact, I see that as a good thing. He's been around for quite a while, and has had more time to learn.
Being rich... well, I don't really see how that's a bad OR a good thing. Also, he wasn't born into a rich family or anything... any money that he has now, he earned on his own. Before he got into politics, he was an obstetrician gynecologist... he worked his way through med school (actually, iirc his wife payed for him to get through school... I'll have to double check on that one), and when he got out he worked for a living.






Yeah, you're absolutely right... it IS one hell of an assumption. But, wouldn't you say the same thing about religion, as well as theories like the big bang? Well, I guess stuff like the big bang isn't as far of a stretch, as we do have a lot of discoveries that support it. But, even in that case, the big bang theory only covers how we came to be in our current state of being, not how the existence of everything came into being. So, even if we we're to find solid proof that would make the big bang factual, we'd still be left of the question of "How did that matter get there in the first place?". Which is why I think there's something more.

You do leave a good point, however... hell, it wasn't that long ago that we thought we could sail off the edge of the earth. So, maybe the answer is within reach, but I think at the very least it'll be a long reach, and it's going to be quite some time before we're able to grasp it.




By all means, please DON'T stop. I love having conversations like this

Well, unfortunately, I don't really know how to put into words exactly how I feel. I believe there is something, and when I say "something" I don't necessarily mean a physical "thing", that is beyond our current knowledge. I guess the reason I can't find any words to describe it, is because there aren't any. Perhaps it would be some sort of alternate world, maybe it's a deity, maybe it's some sort of force in nature that we aren't familiar with... but, I think that the answer to our existence isn't one that can be found with our current knowledge and discoveries, and is probably something that we are incapable of understanding at all.





Well, I guess I'd like to first start my response to all that by saying... doesn't invading random countries and killing hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians seem a little consequence-y?

You say our troops are there for a reason... what reason?

I think it's definitely very risky to pull all the troops back, but I think it's even MORE risky to continue on as we currently are.

To answer your last question there... short answer: yes
Long answer: If you pull up videos of the 2008 debates, Obama repeatedly said that he wanted to bring the troops back as soon as he could. He said that he was going to bring the troops back quicker than G W Bush's plan had set for... and under GW's plan, the troops would have been back 2 years ago, yet they're still not. Also just recently, within the last month or so, Obama said that we no longer needed our troops to be in Afghanistan and that he was bringing them all back... and, he did bring a portion of them back, but most of them are still there... so we'll see if he follows through with that. But even if he does, that's only the troops that are in Afghanistan... we've got troops in tons of different countries, and there's no real reason for them to be there other than the fact that we want to police the world.

You do bring up a great point... with a pretty large percentage of US citizens not being able to get a job, what are all the military personnel supposed to do when they get back? Well, I'd assume most of them won't be able to re-enlist once their contract is up, so they'll have to get civilian jobs. But we have run out of civilian jobs, because all of the huge companies are sending them overseas. So... I would hope that this would push us over the edge and FORCE the government to get rid of all of the ridiculous expenses and restrictions that they put on businesses, and encourage the big companies to set up shop here at home. Granted, this obviously isn't going to happen overnight, so... for quite a while, they WON'T have jobs.




Idk if I replied to everything in your post, and I'm too lazy to read what I've just written, so if there's something I missed that you'd like a response to let me know :D

SRAW: I'm not voting for Ron Paul because I'm a few thousand miles out of citizenship. Even if I were, I would not vote for him, or any Republican, because of their stupid bronze age beliefs. Yes, he should be commended for his honesty and for voting for what he believes in, but I don't think that since those beliefs include some really dumb shit that's entirely a good thing.



Right, consider this. There are many world religions. Hundreds. Each of them has some kind of creation myth which we know about from the supposed holy texts of that religion. The muslim, christian and judaic religions all claim to be by and large the same, fair enough, but consider that many of the rest are incompatible with each other. They make contrasting claims, but all we have to choose between them is basically personal choice. There is nothing in the world that says one religion is better than the other.

On the other hand, current scientific theories about the evolution of the universe are the result of centuries of observation, theory and measurement. They are entirely derivable from the world around us and require no ancient texts or superstition. Religion is stupid. Think about it! The Bible is largely ~1800-~1900 years old. How, in any way, can you apply this to modern life?! Go back a mere 500 years and you cannot apply their theories to the modern world. This is not a surprise.

To finish this bit, I was raised a christian. I can ask why I was raised a christian, and it wasn't because of divine will, it was because my parents are of that denomination. Were I born elsewhere - say, India - I would likely be hindi, perhaps muslim. What is the difference between these scenarios? Nothing.

To add a final bit to the Ron Paul thing, creationism denies evolution. This is stupid and I should not have to tell you why. The problem is in education, people attempt to push their bullshit into the classroom where it does not belong.

I read quite a lot of athiest shit on the internet, you know, and I guess it's not great to spend so much time circlejerking. But in America things seem to be so much worse... though, when David Cameron starts saying that the decline of christianity in Britain is to blame for the current decline of society, I start getting worried. Perhaps we need some new Crusades?

ANYWAY. I said we shouldn't talk about this and that Aaronjer should post more pictures, but you guys drew me in with your wily natures. Merry fucking Christmas.

It essentially works that the more good things you do the less support you will get from other nobles and their soldiers. But there are many other ways in which your good deeds make the game harder as well.

For example, Shael hunts and kills a benign magical creature and it brings a curse down upon him and his lands. He is told by magical spirits that he can only undo the curse by performing an act of great generosity. That translates to Gyllioc and Shael spending all of their money to help people afflicted by the curse. Obviously that's the good way out. You don't lose any support, but it's very expensive.

Evil methods involve letting everyone suffer the curse, or using a necromantic ritual to obliterate all the benign magical creatures from existence to end the curse.

Ah, it is more clear now. You have great ideas! These are the kind of things that are not touched by mainstream, though I say that as someone that has not played Dragon Age, or most of Oblivion, or any of Skyrim or the other Elder Scrolls games. So there's that.

D'you know some day I'd like to play a game where I'm not the big damn hero, where actually my role, although on a local scale seems to have impact, is actually revealed to be quite inconsequential.

SPOILERS AHEAD, CAP'N, FOR "CONSIDER PHLEBAS"

SERIOUSLY, don't read this if you ever plan to read the book. Iain M. Banks is a bit of a hero.

So I read this on holiday recently, it's great. Science fiction but I think the concept could transfer to some huge fantasy world.

In this book a huge amount of plot happens. There's some big space war going on and there is one mercenary type person caught in the middle of the two factions. He is sent on a mission to obtain an AI for one faction; this AI belongs to their enemies. He goes through an immense amount of shit to get to it but in the end, on a galactic scale, his impact is essentially negligible. The war ends with him having had no say in the outcome. But it's really interesting to have a really different view on this, so much happens but as I say it doesn't matter, in a sense. It really got me thinking anyway and I do so love it when games make me think.

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Spoilers are over now. Like you care.

I'd tend to agree, those two are about the best. It's great to listen to all the way through though.

Well, effectively the latter part of the game is you preparing to murderise the actual villain. When it comes to the time for the confrontation the guy gives you the option of immortality, to be worshipped as a hero of the Empire for all eternity. If you choose this he's happy and makes you into a giant statue.

It's a false ending, really, because you haven't completed the main task you were supposed to be doing. I really need to replay JE, it's great.

Not quite sociopathic. Gyllioc is capable of caring about people. Blood relatives, for example. Basically he believes only his family are real people and everyone else is to be used. Which is why he's so very upset if he has to fight his own children... and that is a great deal of the reason why being evil ends up depressing.

Having options like "Forfeit and die/be sealed away forever" or "Kill your own children who you lovingly raised through most of the game" mean you're probably going to wish you weren't so evil.

It's a secret

While every great rpg game starts off with character design and not the programming or storyline, do you mind giving us a little progress on your shit so far ?

Thank you all! Although long, Wednesday ended up being a pretty great day for me. Here is what I got myself for my birthday:


Timbuk2 Snoop camera messenger bag!

edit: it was a lot cheaper on Amazon, where I ordered it.

In a sense, it does! A zero mass solar system would fly apart, just as it did in my program. Great success I guess. If I make enough progress tomorrow to have some kind of visualisation going on I'll post a link to the code such that all you people who are clearly *very* interested can have a look.

It is. Watch Blood: The Last Vampire and you won't even need to look it up. Blood+ is clearly some kind of remake.


It's not that it's different, it's that they're calling vampires draculas and draculinas, which is retarded. I already used up all my 'stupid name forgiveness' with Alucard.

It's like, if you were watching a really great movie, Die Hard or something, and then instead of being named John McClane the main character is called "Poofy Funtime Grilled Cheese Mega Snake." It suddenly becomes really hard to take it seriously.

Ha, they were awesome again. I now get what you mean about the drumming, it's great on The Art of Almost but he was on fire tonight, amazing stuff.

I think perhaps SWORD OF THE STRANGER is my favorite evar.

AKIRA duh

Excel Saga (now on Netflix!)

Bastard! Destroyer of Darkness

Berserk (sooooo gooooood)

Tachiguishi-Retsuden ("The Amazing Fast Food Grifters" - super-beautiful, well written, great characters, heartfelt dialogue, loved it)

Ghibli filmography with special recommendations for Grave of the Fireflies, Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service, and Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, assuming you've already seen Mononoke, Spirited Away, and Howl's Moving Castle. And Ponyo, can't forget that one. Oh, Ghibli did Earthsea as well, quite pretty.

STEAMBOY was pretty fun

SHIN CHAN (for kicks AND cultural insight!) - I've never tried subs of the originals, but the recut/rewritten/dubbed American stuff is awesome.

Urotsukidoji LEGEND OF THE OVERFIEND

Casshern

Basilisk

edit: I almost forgot about Jin Roh, little red riding hood meets violent mindfuck (yeesh...sounds like my ex-wife!)

ROCKY, the other day you asked us about what we thought of you becoming an air traffic controller. I've since had a chance to ask my coworker about it, he did 20 years in the Navy as an ATC. The first thing out of his mouth, before I had even closed mine, was that it was the best job any of the forces can offer you. You get great schooling, great pay, and when you get out you can get even better pay as a civilian. He also told me to mention that in 1981 there was a strike in the civilian air traffic control industry, so there was a lot of turnover, and all of 81's new hires will be coming up for retirement soon, so the sweetness will get even sweeter.

He mentioned that you make sure to get trained on both radar AND tower, don't get locked in to one or the other. Everything is by the book, there are a million rules and guidelines and it's your job to learn and properly apply them. They are done well enough that nothing should be stressful or by the seat of your pants. The only image of ATCs I have is from Pushing Tin, so this was surprising to me. He then told me you can find tons of stuff online, accounts of historic/interesting air traffic control, sometimes even in-tower video, both civilian and military, with a bit of google-fu.

Another thing he mentioned about ATC is that, to the best of his knowledge, it is one of the few jobs where they treat your service as equivalent or better than civilian service and/or college education; ie it is one of the few jobs where moving from the forces to a civilian job does not entail what basically amounts to demotion.

Lastly he was very adamant about, if it is not too late, getting your shit in writing - never let anybody else choose your school, your path. Recruiters will try to worm you out of your choices in some cases, make sure to get it all in explicit writing.

Hope that helps!

tl;dr become an ATC if you like money and you don't mind memorization

I can't help it man, I've gotta comment on this one... that song was as .

I'm normally not a big fan of oldschool rap (despite popular belief, tupac really isn't that great), but this was pretty damn good.

1. Dream Theater - Pull me under
2. Dream Theater - The killing hand
3. Dream Theater - The mirror
4. Dream Theater - Blind Faith
5. Dream Theater - The great debate
6. Dream Theater - Home
7. Dream Theater - As I am
8. Dream Theater - Forsaken
9. Dream Theater - Panic Attack
10. Dream Theater - Lines in the sand
11. Dream Theater - Metropolis pt 1
12. Dream Theater - The count of Tuscany

In case you can't tell, imma big dream theater fan

One of my classmates listens to all the same bands I thought were cool in middle school, when they were first achieving mainstream recognition - Metallica (when I said I was one of the many myriad Metallica fans that only likes one particular album she guessed Load ), kr0n, Marilyn Manson...then she asked if I liked Puddle of Mud and I disgustedly told her I would *never* listen to Puddle of Mud - turns out she had it playing through her headphones as I spoke those words

I think for next class I want to burn her an MP3 CD with some really awesome metal and rock-n-roll. My plan was to include mostly less-accessible stuff, and then point her towards the stuff that's widely available. The new Wolves in the Throneroom album is most excellent (PNW represent boooiiiii) so I'll probably include that, maybe both Red Fang albums (how is PNW sooo good at metal?! - must be all the gloomy weather...), Oakhelm, Windir, maybe the new Boris 'Heavy Rocks' album just for kicks.

My question to you is this: if you could make one MP3 CD to turn somebody on to all things good in metal, a sort of highlight reel of bands that aren't as widely known as Priest or Maiden, what would you include?! While the format I've chosen is an MP3 CD with complete albums, if you wanted to design a mix cd with individual tracks that would be great too!

tl;dr: Tell me all your favorite metals!

I love the first song on their new album, "Art Of Almost", so great. I love that rhythm in there and wished more songs on the album had such fresh rhythms...

You Reddit?

Also, I really like Canals of our City, it's a great song.

Lolwat... To get that amount of pay you'd have to be like an e7 with 10 years of service...

Sprinkles is probably making about 1600-1700 a month (800-850 bimonthly). Which really isn't that much... not even $20k a year.

But, like it's been pointed out, you do get to keep most of that money, cuz there's not really any expenses you have to pay. And also, if he ends up getting shipped out, he'll get war-pay, which afaik is considerably more.

if i would join the military it would be for
1 the money
2 the travel
3 respect
4 money money money


being payed roughly 1,600 bimonthly is a great deal.

edit: then there's Hazard pay for army and a whole lot of other things (free housing, no tax, blablablabla)

okay great ill try that. and could it be that some textures are bad like too big or have spaces in the names. can i send you a copy of the listed textures so you can see?

Well if you look in the background, he's running it on an HP workstation. Idk about Xbox, but the PS3 should be able to handle anything that computer will.

And, if you've ever played any of Kojima's games (Metal Gear Solid series, Zone of the Enders series, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow), you'll know that the animations will be amazing on any game he puts out.

Engine demos always look impressive since Source, the problem is that games will not look like that. Also probably more important than good graphics are great animations, because no matter how great the game looks, dumb animations make it look like shit.

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Why not?
If someone wants to enjoy a seizure in 1080p, I'm not going to deny them that.

Edit: Btw... on my system there is shitloads of bass (not in the drop). Maybe the frequencies are too low and you guys can't hear 'em?

Yeah, it sounds great except for the the missing bass. Also, why did you upload at 1080p? A bit overkill, isn't it?

Hahaha, these are great. Imma bookmark this so I can read 'em all... I'm actually learning stuff from them too

I came back from a 4 days "vacation" yesterday, I've been playing E.Y.E The Supremancy. It's really great.

I should add, if you're not having a great time playing DF without tutorials and just trying to figure out what the fuck you shouldn't be playing it. Figuring it out is the game. Once you understand it you've effectively won and there isn't much to do.

I am pretty sure if he hasn't figured out a solution in 5 months...

Great, you're just 5 months late.

i got the idea to say inb4 sprinkels but... that might scare you away.


great to have you back!

Rattlesnake Mountain with AaronJer, NatureJay, and Nezumi:


DeerJer on Tiger Monutain:


AaronJer at Tiger 3, Tiger mountain (Tiger 2 and radio tower in background):


Alets and AaronJer having a great time at Tiger 3:


Alets ending it all by the grave site near Tiger 3:


SuperJer near the Alets grave incident location:


AaronJer at Tiger 2 inhaling diesel fumes deeply:


Nature and Nez on Mount Pilchuck near the decision fork:


Nature and Nez after making the wrong decision (this is much steeper than it looks):


Nature making an even worse decision:


Nature and Nez getting out of the snow for a bit:


NatureJay is "Almost There":


You probably can't see him but Camo Nez is in this picture:

Remember u can never beat the classics versions , I don't know why it's like that
Every game that I played the first was always better then the second just like bioshock

I've played it some more and it actually gets better.

The first 2 hours are awful. But I got to the alien-hive in the Duke Dome and, although it still isn't great, at least it has some atmosphere. It's really slimy and gross. And the boss fight is OK.

I'm in the Duke Burger now, and it's somewhat fun. The shrunken-in-the-kitchen bit is pretty good.

Overall it's awful, but you can tell the original concept was alright and it could have been pretty good.

Groovy is awesome. Also the song is good in a weird way because Simon and Garfunkel are great in a weird way.

@OP that/those is/are a/some really great article/s. Must-read for C coders.

It seems a biiiiiiiit FUDdy about UB, though.

In my experience, you only really run into UB when you already have a bug.

· Why would you try to shift a uint32_t by 32 bits?
· Why would you ever check if x+1 < x?
· Why would you malloc(INT_MAX)?

If you are doing any of these things, then you've already got problems, with or without UB. And UB doesn't really format your dog or send raunchy emails to the prime minister. That's just a fun thing to say.

People need to think about edge cases. And stop writing code so complicated that you actually need to think about sequence points. And don't use C unless you really need the speed (or are learning to use it, of course).

lone, dry, to entertain the walls again
fold down a corner and crawl to bed
is this your wasted encore
pictured for days in your mind
stand tall, fall strong
ride through fields, trophy sixty-one
pierced and broken by barbed wire
in this great escape

I guess, but, there are so many great tracks on ToVO! Courage of Others is just... harder to get into. I'll admit that Acts of Man is very good, though. Plus I'm willing to bet that most people think "The Trials of Van Occupanther" is just a better name. There's no way it couldn't be :D

English & French School Compare & Contrast Essay



Every Country and their educational practices are different. French and American schools are a great example in this diversity, but with the differences we can also find common similarities as well. (6 weeks then 2 off)

Oh great, now we know you can make iframes! It's fucking uncomfortable, though, bro.

Nope. First, we need to look at random number generation...

One of the simplest ways to generate random numbers is to say
This will generate a sequence of numbers when you make repeated calls to it (if you put it in a function, say). The choice of initial number obviously can have great effect on where the series goes, so if you allow the user to change that then you can have great variation for free! And actually an easy way for people to share maps without the associated memory/bandwidth costs. The difficulty lies in finding a good one.

Does this look like a cappuccino to you?!?! Not only were our grandfathers the WORST flat-iron chiefs, today isn't a great day to dance.

Great, thanks!

I'm not too great with grammar and stuff, otherwise I'd help. Maybe wait 'til cloud comes along, he's good with this type of stuff.
But seriously, it looks good to me.

If you're looking from the outside towards the valves, there's one bug in the lower right valve where you lose all your speed and get shot up straight in the air.

It would be great if there was a bit more space outside the doors for the skeeters to dodge the AWPers, but still have the slopes, since they're great to avoid any fall damage when you're shot out from the valves.

Would make it a bit more easier for the skeeters if the ground behind the trigger_push was lowered a bit, so it would be harder for AWPers to shoot you.

Also have a bombsite outside the map, so the round ends when the time's up.



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Yes, I liked Plastic Beach alot too although at first I didn't like it when it came out. Favorite song is Rhinestone Eyes.

Also as mellojer recommended, Animal Collective are infact great. I'd prefer Fireworks over My Girls though.

Also What Would I Want? Sky or Graze from their latest EP Fall Be Kind.

Gotta get down on friday!

I like how she really seems to have a great time singing this/doing the video. I also like how ratings are disabled. And the parts in the sketchbook make her look way more ugly than she already is.

But at last, we probably are NOT the audience this aims at so...

Oh look it works.

Great job, superjer.

So now views make a "good" song ... how narrow minded,really.



trolling?nah..

I'm not in love with magic having a quantitative value attached to it, but I like the general idea. If you're right about the statistical probability of Lemmy fudging the numbers I think this is the least flawed method of determining how good music is.

I still don't think it's a very effective method, however, just... less flawed. I think the only case in which you can truly determine that a song is good or bad is if it is somehow wide-spread and generally reviled. Then you can be sure it is definitely a bad song.

Maybe maybe not. I suspect a combination of popularity, or success among target demographic, creativity and/or skill in some way add up to or approximate this "unmeasurable" thing.

It certainly works in the edge cases:

Random noise: 0 skill, 0 popularity, 0 "magic"

Great song*: 1+ skill, 1+ popularity, 1+ "magic"

*by any reasonable standard

You and I have disagreed over this point before many times, in fact, it's come up in this thread.

Besides, popularity, as SJ says, is a poor measure of... many things. If I went to tell most people that it is possible to decompose a sphere into two identical spheres the same size as the first one they likely would not believe me, but that doesn't stop it being right.

Now, fair enough there's not that great a comparison between abstract obscure mathematics and music (despite many mathematicians talking about the creative side of proof writing) but I feel that my point still somewhat stands. So much music today is mass-produced, design by committee; think of the kind of stuff that is squirted out of The X-Factor or something like Justin Bieber. My problem is that most mainstream music from nowadays strongly conforms to this pattern, be it rap or hip-hop or pop or god knows what. Or bland teenage soft rock.

All this and the fact that I totally disagree with the idea of music that is marketed towards a particular audience. I'd much rather artists made music that they wanted to make, without giving too much of a damn about who listened. Though I think that's a very small percentage nowadays.

You guys are all over-simplifying.

I don't think you can even really compare the "hardness" of these things.

For one thing, we can pretty easily measure someone's skill at playing an instrument by comparing accuracy to the sheet music or a reference performance.

You can't do anything like that with writing music. The popularity of a song does not tell you anything about the skill required to write it. In fact, it tells you more about the skill of the performer, the production quality, instruments used, pre-existing popularity of the performer, familiarity of sound*, and marketing.

Songs used in movies, TV, and radio become popular. Ones that aren't don't. Very few exceptions. This isn't just true for music, it's true for everything. If you never hear it or see it you're never going to like it no matter how much you would like it.

The fact is, there is waaaaaay more music than can ever be marketed or heard on a large scale.

It doesn't take me long to find extremely unpopular music that I like. Even though I think the artist is great, I know there's very little chance they will ever become popular. Not because they suck but because there's only room for so much popular music. You can't have 10,000 songs all popular at once, it just doesn't make sense.

We can't all be astronauts or pro-athletes, either, even if we are all perfect for the job(s).

As with anything, the best way to measure something is to ask the experts. Have a large group of music writers judge the skill of each other, and you can probably get a pretty good measurement.

But I don't see anyone doing that.

If you use popularity, at best you are judging skill at writing popular music, not general skill. At worst you're just measuring the factors I listed earlier and pretending you're measuring skill.


*It's been shown scientifically that people like music because they recognize it. Your brain is literally trained over time to become accustomed to the music you listen to, and recognizing the same patterns leads to enjoyment. This is why if any of you (probably) listen to very foreign music you won't like it. It won't even sound like music to you because your brain is physically not adapted in a way to recognize it musically. This is especially true of foreign music that uses a different scale with more or less notes.

Disclaimer: you are (probably) not a robot and your brain's musical recognition configuration is not the only thing that determines whether you will like a song. You can think too, so critical evaluation and emotions all play a role. You may not like a song because it sounds too unoriginal, for example. But generally you will like a song because it is both familiar and interesting in a new way.

I'm sure their songs are just great. It has to actually be a good song that people want to listen to more than once... or even once.

An example would be a musician on Youtube will have 2,000,000 views for a cover song and like 10,000 for an original song. It's not always those exact numbers, but their covers are WAAAAY more popular than their original music. Cause writing music is really hard, and they suck at it.

There is an endless supply of people on the internet doing masterful covers of various music. The vast majority of those people can't write music for shit, and many don't even try. On the other hand, EVERY amazing composer is ALSO an amazing musician or singer. That means there are far less good composers than good musicians... it doesn't take a lot of thought to make the connection that JUST MAYBE composition is more difficult.

Steps to writing great music :
1. Google for song lyrics, the structure should be verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-chorus
2. Have only 3 chords in the entire song.
4. Use midi drum beats
5. ???
6. Record yourself and profit!

It's not like when you have learned how to "physically" write down notes and put them in right harmony you actually "write" a song. And you can't compare the time it takes learning an instrument with the time it takes to write a song. That's just one dimensional thinking. The idea for a great song might come quite fast or it might take ages. Anyway it is way harder than learning an instrument, as aaronjer said.

But then again, going from playing an instrument well to being a virtuoso, it takes the same as it takes to write an amazing song.

Yea, The Roots are great. They do use samples too, though. But that's one point of rap music.

That makes it sound wayyyy wayy more easier than it actually is, bro. It's a different type of music and it's done a different way.

Haters gonna hate!

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Kronos lunges once again to desecrate another of the now five heads of the Hydra, Swiftly sword meets flesh severing the head, unfortunate luck as the heap of flesh falls to dirt, the inevitable sprouting of two more heads replaces the last, the newly formed Hydra heads howled at Kronos, and lashed out in anger at the agitating annoyance the hero was creating, landing its lashing tail with ludicrous precision, sending Kronos soaring steadily toward the ground.

From the clouds burst a flaring light, almost like from the heavens, clouds whirling into disperse, a white horse with large angel wings came soaring from the heavens. A gift...Pegasus. Flowing with the wind with grace soaring down towards Kronos and
With a burst of wind and a winding swoop Pegasus willed his way under Kronos and caught him on his back and soared past the heads of the Hydra and circled around the sky softly as it would let Kronos time to settle onto the stead. Swiftly, Pegasus dodges attack after attack from the Hydra, Kronos finally get balanced on the horse and readies his blade to take on the incoming attacks. With greater ease Kronos flew around the Hydra swinging his sword into the necks of each of the heads. However, the heads would keep coming.

One after another. suddenly a head from the flank, hits Pegasus knocking Kronos off. Kronos falls above the Hydra, catching himself, he notices that he is above the head that could kill the Hydra for good. swinging back his sword letting off a large scream in efforts to cut the head, his sword would glisten with light as he swung back, his let off the attack onto the neck of the head cutting through it easily. Severing the head. However, he is still in the graces of the air falling to his death, as the Hydra head would fall above him, and in a swift moment, Pegasus swoops back and catches Kronos. The hydra head would crash into the city, along with the rest of the bodies. Dust flowing over the buildings from the landing. After the dust cleared, joys and cheers screamed into the sky. The people that was still left, rejoiced for their hero's victory...


Years later, Kronos was invited to battle in the new Roman Arena. However he declined. he did not wish to fight for sport or glory. He fought for the people, to save the people when they needed him. A true hero. However his father did not approve of this. Kronos was the hero that saved the city from the Hydra, he was their hero. UnDevious he did what he could for the people. However, Fallacious the king was, he tried his hand at the belevalant hero, over and over. But it was futile. the hero would refuse disobeying his father orders and leaving the city with a group of warriors.

The king angered by this..rounds up 120 warriors to search for his son and kill him. All paid handsomely. Kronos and his fellow warriors, along with his best friend Jax. Heading towards the next town for shopping for wives and family. A good 2 days walk. Sleeping with natures beasts and world. feel its air as it caresses them. Different from the dark cold stones of the city. However, on their second day. They are attacked.

Over the hills around them, through the brushes and trees. Men come wielding swords to fight. Without giving the few warriors time to think.An Ambush that would normally kill any normal traveler. Kronos, easily taking out any man coming to him, he tried hard, to help defend his friends. Man after man fell, along with most of his friends, the fighting waged on for what seemed like a eternity of blood and death. Upon taking down a man, Kronos turns to hear the scream of his friend Jax. Being sliced in the hip by a warrior, accompanied by another. Teaming up on Jax. jax lands on his knees towards Kronos. Looking up at Kronos, blood pouring form his mouth, with his last strength pulled up his shield and stood it upon the ground and gave it a tap, a tap that bounced the dust and blood off of it abit. Kronos knew this sign and quickly ran for the Jax, jumping at mid level onto the shield and off to slice the head off of one of the men, rolling on the ground and back up, Kronos regains balance and sight of the other and easily bests him without a scratch nor trouble.

He ran for Jax's aid holding him in his arms however, he was already loss of life and soul. The others still fighting around him. Only a few friends remained but a good half still lived of the attackers. Out of rage and anger. Kronos takes his sword and Jax's sword, and unleashes his rage and power onto the attackers. Killing many in his fit of rage, a good too many would overwhelm him. and in a great distraught of battle he would finally be struck in the back, cut and tossed to the ground. close to death dark embrace. He would hear a voice..a woman. A woman speaking."It is not your time yet, Kronos." Kronos would then fill a feeling of light, and power among bis body. His eyes glistened blue. He would look up and see that the men have stood back. He then realized, he feels no pain. he feels for his back and realizes.. the cut is gone. He gets up and looks around at the attackers and hears: You now have my powers.. go..unleash my fury" This time the voice was a man.. he didn't know what to do. He decided to keep fighting swinging his sword at one of the attackers in a loud roar, light glistened from his sword once more and as sword contacted with skin lightning shot through the man body sending his body back squrming out of the voltage.

He looked at his bloody sword after this, realizing what just happened before him. he then turned to see the reats of the attackers scatter. He was saved. the gods have blessed him with power and healing. He turned around to see his friends still barely alive. he ran to the one that where left as they where laying on top of the attacks. Kilis.. one of the warriors who was injured in the right hip spoke barely:" The coin...its his.." Kronos' face confused, he looked towards the dead mans body and noticed a bag of money hanging from it. he took it and looked inside to find that the coin was of his kingdom. But not just any coin. Royal.

Realizing what must be done. He stands and helps his friends up. Someone in the royal family has betrayed him. and they will pay. with blood.

You should try to keep the action going for a bit longer, 'cause I think that is the hardest part of it. Cutting away real fast is rather easy. You should work on keeping it going, that'll be great practice.

In this one I pretend to be a bot... and it seems he actually falls into it, until I mess up at the end

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The spell was broken when the laptop overheated, or something. I dunno. It is now slightly less than awesome and I will be yelling about "help I need help", perhaps over the weekend.

But yes, Minecraft! Is it really the *worst* implementation? Think about, for instance, Magicka. I mean, Java's not great, but it's available pretty much everywhere and the requirements are still fairly low.

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One of the things you'd want to consider is that you'd want games that were actually more fun to play with a controller than to emulate. For example, I don't see much that would be gained by having a controller when playing 90% of RPGs, so throw those out the window right now, Secret of Mana and Super Mario RPG excluded. GET THOSE. (play Earthbound too, but without a controller)

The game that should be number one on your list for reasons to obvious to articulate is River City Ransom which is indisputably mankind's crowning achievement. Close behind that would be Legend of the Mystical Ninja and Kirby Super Star.

* You've already got Super Metroid, so that's good.
* If you feel like blowing a thousand points, I recommend Mega Man 9 and Mega Man 10, 9 probably moreso than 10, but that's kind of if you're feeling old school. For the standard, cheaper Mega Man games, 2 or 3.
* Any of the pre-N64 Zelda games would be solid picks, as would Super Mario 3. NINTENDO
* aaronjer would yell at me if I didn't also mention Streets of Rage 2, which is the best standard, side-scrolling beat 'em up ever created and something we can both play for days on end.
* Metal Slug 2 was a great arcade game, though I don't know how it would function on Virtual Console.
* ActRaiser had a weird blend of platforming and simulation but I don't think it's something that has to be played with a controller.
* Balloon Fight is great fun for old arcade stuff.
* Castlevania is a platform standard bearer, and I'd recommend 3 or Rondo of Blood but both are quite hard. Same goes for Ninja Gaiden, the first game being the hardest and the others being somewhat easy. Vectorman is also worth a look though I'm the only person that ever knew about it (because I had a Genesis!).
* If you never played the Earthworm Jim games, do so, just be warned that they can be deceptively hard for how goofy they are.
* Donkey Kong Country is also a great series and one that's going to keep you occupied for hours.

I have my func door operating great but i want to make it so only ct's can open the door and not t's i dont seem to have the proper fgd or somthing to make this happen can sombody assit me with this issue and how to make it work

So, I found out about Nintendo's Virtual Console a while ago and didn't think much about it, so it just slipped past. Later I saw the Wii Classic Controller, it also just went past barely noticed.

Today (actually yesterday(for me), 2 hours ago) I saw a youtube comment on a Super Metroid video of the Wii Virtual Console and Wii Classic Controller being great to play these, so I checked them up. The boner-inducing power of those 3 combined took me out.

Sadly, there's a problem. You (I) can't buy wii points less than the size of 2000 Wii points and my list of games goes to 2600 Wii points.

The games I AM getting are Super Metroid, Super Mario World and Super Mario 64. Donkey Kong 64 isn't available (yet, hopefully).

So are there any games you can reccomend to me, since I missed the gaming during the 80-90ies(and probably up to around 2005 as well)?

Please make a list and I'll check them out. I'd be grateful. Now you can list NES, SNES, Nintendo 64, Sega Master System, Mega Drive/Genesis, TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine, Neo Geo, Commodore 64, MSX. Now I only know a few of those, I just took them straight from Wikipedia's list of allowed consoles on Nintendo's Virtual Console.

Apple is overpriced, and they put WAY too much restrictions on their stuff.

Then again, Microsoft isn't all that great either... its still a better company than Apple though, so Microsoft wins.

Great, i post it, i go back to hammer, and i find it. Really me...
Problem was that i had not made any ground under a structure, which was a little too high as follows. Invisible leak, still a leak.

Anyways, still, how do you make sense of a pointfile that goes crazy?

BOOM, BITCH!






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