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chakkman

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  1. It would be great if you guys could use the spoiler tag in your posts, as some of us haven't played the mission yet...
  2. The spambots are getting better. Even a more or less realistic thread title.
  3. I like the last two of those (bottom right). Especially the second last. Would work nicely in TDM, IMO.
  4. Do you usually find all the loot in TDM missions? I rarely to never find all loot, unlike in the original Thiefs. TBH, I can't even remember if I ever found all the loot in any TDM missions. The mission authors seem to have a thing for very hard to find loot.
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    Free games

    Epic Games just had Q.U.B.E. 1 and 2, and The Evil Within 1 and 2, which are amazing freebies.
  6. Just wanted to point it out, as you said that it's not encouraging you to disable your adblocker. When Youtube decides to block adblockers, there's nothing to encourage or discourage you anymore. The site simply won't display content if you have your adblocker enabled.
  7. I don't know if you've read, but, Youtube will block users with adblockers soon.
  8. I don't see these "intruse, extremely irritating" ads on Youtube. I see them on other sites, but, not on Youtube. And, you don't know whether or not Google is "already making massive profit", and, it doesn't matter either way. What matters is that they're offering a service, and have real humans working for them, which have to get paid. And, if you use that service, you have to either watch ads, or subscribe to them. Or not use their service at all. A real life example would be to fule up at a gas station, and just drive away, because you think they're making massive profit, and their prices are too high. I don't know if you do that, but, I surely don't.
  9. Would be a good idea to have a settings option for that.
  10. More of a social problem than a Youube one. I don't think the platform is to blame for the 99,9% trash that is being uploaded by users. The one thing that stood out to me over the years in terms of that development: Mug shots on literally every video thumbnail now. Back in the days, people didn't upload their mugshots for every video. The video was about the thing the video was about, not about the person presenting it. I think that pretty much shows where humanity headed: Towards narcissism.
  11. I don't understand why you think it's abusive. Or a "scam".
  12. Again, there is nothing "unethic" about financing your web service. And, I know a gazillion of sites which have more annoying ads than Youtube. If you don't like it, then, I'm afraid, the solution is to not use Youtube anymore, if you find their kind of making sure to pay the bills is too much for you.
  13. Was it? Youtube has had ads for as long as I can remember. They didn't have subscription schemes for a long time, if that's what you mean. It's obvious to me that a service like Youtube costs a lot of money, and therefor must generate money. Many petabytes of data and traffic.
  14. "Crushing the user" and "destroying videos" is your subjective impression of what they are doing. Objectively, they're showing ads to pay for their service. You can also subscribe, and get an ad free service. Really, there's nothing unethical about it. Unethical would be to block their ads, and use and consider their service as free for you, while it isn't. Don't take this personal, it's simply something I often read on the net. I don't think any of us really likes to work for free on their dayjob, right? Google and other big corporations also don't have some kind of money creating machine in their basement, and there are real people working for them, who should get paid for what they do. I wouldn't even say that's ethical, it's simply how life works. I don't know why big companies always have such a different status than your local 10 employee business. They're also a business, and, there's a lot of people working for them. Who should get paid for what they do.
  15. It certainly is when you use their service.
  16. Can you elaborate? How is that "abuse"? It's just like on commercial TV. And, yes, websites/services like Youtube cost. A lot. Just imagine how much webspace they need for all those videos, or the costs for developing the site, making it secure, marketing etc. So, they have to either do paid subs or, for the most users, do ads. I really can't see the abuse. I already stopped using my adblocker (which is really just for blocking those penetrant website big ads which popup on some shitty website...) on Youtube, because I knew that they "take the gloves off" now. Again, I can understand them. That "everything has to be free" attitude on the net doesn't at all account for the work and expense which are happening on all websites.
  17. Hm... why did I think that Enter to frob is hardcoded? Still have to learn a lot about this mod after all these years...
  18. Regardless of what will be implemented in the end, it's both better than having to switch from one side of the keyboard to the other to frob the body...
  19. TBH, I'm all for keeping stuff easy. This brings more complexion to an already complex system, which takes into account leaning, movement speed, crouched and standing position and stuff. I also think that most of the people here underestimate how hard this game is for beginners. It's even hard for me, and I played this game and similar games for almost 20 years now. TDM is a LOT harder than the Thief games, and, those were considered quite hard back in the days as well. I don't think the barrier of entry should be set even higher. I also frankly see no benefit in terms of gameplay or atmosphere. And, if I may also say this: The original Thiefs didn't have it. May sound lame, but, I think this game tries to capture the feel and gameplay of the originals. Including certain gameplay mechanics, which IMO shouldn't be touched.
  20. chakkman

    Free games

    Q.U.B.E. Ultimate Bundle is free on Epic at the moment: https://store.epicgames.com/de/bundles/qube-ultimate-bundle Next week's freebie: The Evil Within. Also a nice one.
  21. Old post, but, the main issue isn't that a game loses "depth" (whatever that is) when it's being played with a controller. The main issue for me always has been, and always will be: Aiming. Aiming with a mouse is so ridiculously superior to aiming with a controller that most action based game are literally unplayable for me with a controller. Ok, the Thief games and also TDM are rather slow paced, and don't require you to aim precisely very quickly, but, it's still better to play with a mouse. The only thing controllers do better is the movement speed. That's stepless/analog possible with a controller with analog sticks. But, that's not an issue here either, because, TDM only has 3 movement speeds, which require button presses.
  22. Sure. With "write it down", I mean write it into my password manager, of course.
  23. ... or to the vocal minority. Anyway. First thing I do when choosing a password is to write it down. I even do that before I set the password in the software. To prevent stuff like this.
  24. I see. Well, since 2015, I guess I always used the online option then. In that case, the fallback when losing the PIN is the Microsoft login. I wasn't even aware that the offline option still works. There always have been reports that it doesn't work anymore, and Microsoft requires a Microsoft account.
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