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  1. 1.08 is gonna rock!

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    2. Melan

      Melan

      BTW, does the box KO make more noise than the blackjack? If it does (and it probably should), then voila, here is a balancing mechanism to avoid excess crating.

    3. Springheel

      Springheel

      The crate makes plenty of noise when it lands.

    4. Melan
  2. Does anyone ever actually read these status updates? 🤔

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    2. datiswous

      datiswous

      To sum it up: Everyone under your status update (including you) reads (your) status update(s).

    3. Dragofer

      Dragofer

      Yes, but I doubt everyone who reads the status update replies to it.

      Also, sometimes people reply to something without having read it.

    4. AluminumHaste
  3. I did the political compass test and apparently belong in a Pirate Party. I wonder if being part of an open source project has influenced my politics. I do think information & people want to be free.

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    2. Lux

      Lux

      I got to page 3 before I realized this test is probably put out by the administration to gauge the people's climate and future implications.

    3. demagogue

      demagogue

      I think it's run by a university. I don't doubt statistics are collected, but since it's taken internationally I think it's more valuable to professors than any gov't.

    4. Airship Ballet

      Airship Ballet

      Might even be helping somebody out with their dissertation.

  4. I got accepted today to grad school in Tokyo next year!

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    2. nbohr1more
    3. Xarg

      Xarg

      Sooo.. samurai themed FM when :D?

    4. demagogue

      demagogue

      I scripted a samurai themed FM (the story of Goemon Ishikawa) ages ago, along with 100 other FM ideas. Too bad I can't do them all, at least not at the same time.

      Thanks everybody!

  5. I just saw a reporter Ann Lucia whose name was pronounced Loo-chee-ah. I always thought it was Loo-see-ah. So what's the proper way for Tears of St. Lucia?

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    2. demagogue

      demagogue

      But I'd give Spring's way priority if someone asked me too. =)

    3. Lux

      Lux

      I would say it, Loo-chi-a, and I'm American.

       

      Tomato TomAto.

    4. jaxa

      jaxa

      let's call the whole thing off

  6. Big earthquake in Tokyo today! It started with the ground dropping straight down, what felt like a foot or so straight down. I've never felt that kind of plunge before. Then a few seconds later the shaking started up.

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    2. Airship Ballet

      Airship Ballet

      Let's hope they don't blame Demagogue in their angry search for the gaijin causing the earthquakes.

       

      I got blamed for some automatic doors not working because I was stood near them all suspicious-like, just waiting for someone to come out of the shop. Japan is just worlds apart, somehow I even loved the xenophobia on the few occasions it cropped up, maybe owing to how different it was to usual racism. More defensive than aggressive, really cool. I'm envious that you get to live there!

    3. freyk

      freyk

      I hope you are okay.

      Get accustomed to these moments or move tot another country. Japan is lying on a earth faultline.

    4. Diego

      Diego

      wow, sounds like a strange experience.

  7. You have got to be kidding. You need an Apple device to access a news story? Don't they know the principle that information wants to be free? "This story is only available in Apple News. To view this story, open the link on an iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch with iOS 9 or later and Apple News."

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    2. freyk

      freyk

      For me, it was living in a small golden cage.

    3. stumpy

      stumpy

      probably a selling ploy by apple, buy us to read us.

    4. demagogue

      demagogue

      It was the story about CERN possibly finding a new particle (which is significant because unlike the Higgs, no one was really looking for this one, so it'd bring new theory with it). It was easy to find elsewhere, but that makes Apple's closure of it even more curious. Closing sensitive Apple crap is one thing, but a public story looks like Applites are so submerged in that way of thinking they don't see how dumb that is.

  8. Fun flash poll (I saw in an article today). To those raised on UK English: Are there any Americanisms you've adopted? To those raised on US English: Are there any Britishisms you've adopted?

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    2. PranQster

      PranQster

      I spell the color grey with an 'e'.I don't think the word 'colour' looks wrong with the 'u'. Same goes for 'petrol' vs. 'gas'. I cross my 7s and my Zs, but that's more German.For autos, I understand 'boot' and 'lorry' with no problem.

    3. PranQster

      PranQster

      Before I started watching Top Gear, I knew 'saloon' as an old style bar. Now I think of it as a 4-door car.Monty Python started changing the way I think before I was age 10.Not to mention A Clockwork Orange...

    4. PranQster

      PranQster

      I also say 'bloody hell' probably more than any other American.

  9. Clever wordplay for the day: My friend noted that Ms. nee Stalin actually died last week, but the papers were Stalin on the obituary (which only got published today). I then gave him high Marx for such a clever bon Mao.

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    2. demagogue

      demagogue

      It's an English import, like champaign, sheesh. Well what would *you* have done with Mao or Lenin??? heh.

    3. Melan

      Melan

      For these horrible puns, we will Beria.

    4. PranQster
  10. I had a dream last night where there were a lot of maroon diamond flags on a castle wall. Then I noticed they were all waving *exactly* the same way and in my dream I literally said out "Holy crap! Instancing!" haha

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    2. lost_soul

      lost_soul

      Ever had a dream where you knew it was a dream while it was going on? That had never happend to me until a wile ago. Its a cool experience because you can do anything you want.

    3. Sir Taffsalot

      Sir Taffsalot

      I had that last week. I was walking down a street and I realised it was a dream. I knew that once the realisation kicked I would quickly wake up. So I decided to run in front of a car. It hit me and I woke up.

    4. pusianka

      pusianka

      When I was young, I had a dream where I started falling and when I woke up I hit the floor. Pretty funny...

  11. In the last 2 days I visited an embassy aand a castle, and both had entry gates where doors were on perpendicular walls (ie, no line of sight). It was clearly for security reasons, but all I could think was, well they've obviously thought about visportalling here.

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    2. jaxa

      jaxa

      You took photos for texturing?

    3. demagogue

      demagogue

      Well they're Japanese styled. And while I'd love some Japanese assets for ninja themed levels, to be worthwhile we'd really need a whole asset pack--textures, models, AI--to give it justice.

    4. jaxa

      jaxa

      All your life must be devoted to furthering TDM

      show us the textures

  12. Zero Punctuation's Yahtzee reviews The Dark Mod! www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOSVGysMTzI

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    2. nbohr1more

      nbohr1more

      I'll take this over a fake mission release thread any day :)

    3. Airship Ballet

      Airship Ballet

      Noooo, what can I get people with now?! Shouldn't have slept in...

    4. grayman
  13. Walking around, look up, and I'm at SquareEnix. Anyone think I should leave a present in their shrubbery for what they did to Thief4? The place is massive btw.

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    2. Bikerdude
    3. MoroseTroll

      MoroseTroll

      @demagogue: What about an inscription with your "favorite" quote from T2014? I vote for "Garrett, I'm slipping! Give me the claw!!!" Or maybe "My hook is bigger than yours" :)...

    4. Sotha

      Sotha

      Go in and give 'em a copy of TDM?

  14. Messing around in my notebook and somehow a map gets drawn in. Hmmm... What could it mean?

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    2. Vae

      Vae

      Too medieval for D&D!?

    3. Sotha

      Sotha

      Medieval and visportals? Hmm? I give up. What can it mean? It could be anything... ANYTHING! ;D Good luck with the project, man!

    4. demagogue

      demagogue

      My favorite D&D modules struck me as earlier than medieval for some reason, but I have a bad memory of the nuts and bolts. Been too long since I played.

  15. I posted some photos over on TTLG of my time teaching at a Burma law school if anyone is curious. http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=141222

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    2. demagogue

      demagogue

      Yeah a little. Burmese is a bit more square and loopy.

      @Ob, my avatar is Andre Breton. We're more similar on the inside.

      @Jaxa, I do. =)

    3. Obsttorte

      Obsttorte

      Whatever that means. ;)

    4. jaxa

      jaxa

      I'll keep it in mind ;)

  16. I saw that we have a YouTube page (maybe we've had it for a while & I'm just finding out), apparently automatically generated. https://gaming.youtube.com/game/UCBIJ1NKkWkp8hbiHiN5KqpQ

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    2. jaxa

      jaxa

      *Not to say FenPhoenix Let's Plays are off-topic, just that they are not live streamed.

    3. Bikerdude

      Bikerdude

      What exactly is it..?

    4. demagogue

      demagogue

      There are apparently so many Let's Plays on YT that they decided to make automatically-generated homepages for every game to hold all the LPs. That's what this is in a nutshell.

  17. I won an impromptu online rap battle tonight. Wasn't expecting that. =o

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    2. ungoliant

      ungoliant

      Agreed. Definitely wasn't expecting that

    3. Glyph Seeker

      Glyph Seeker

      *Drops monocle in tea* Goodness!

    4. demagogue

      demagogue

      Haha, It was such a stupid thing. Actually winning was just the icing on top.

  18. Some dictionary awarded a 'best new words of the year' (I guess that got added this year), and one was 'ghosting'. It only took 17 years, but it's finally been made official. Now let's see if we can get taffer or lightgem.

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    2. demagogue

      demagogue

      I'm sure it's been used as long as the word ghost has, just with different meanings. The one in OP apparently refers to ignoring someone on social media. As if social media sociology deserves the recognition. =L

    3. Sotha

      Sotha

      I've heard people using 'ghosting' in Dayz: i) get into firefight on a public server, ii) log out, iii) log in to a quiet server, iv) move to advantageous position, v) log out and log back in to the original server to surprise the enemy from the new, better position. One of the reasons people like to play on Private shards.

    4. OrbWeaver

      OrbWeaver

      I'd never heard of the social media meaning of "ghosting" before. I assumed the new definition was the usage from the Riddick movies (where it means "killing people").

  19. Wanting to help out on a git project... Is it just me or is Git a lot more complicated than SVN? I don't remember this much trouble contributing to Darkmod. (Of course it doesn't help that this new project I have to build on a Linux virtual machine.)

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    2. demagogue

      demagogue

      Haha, yeah, basically just follow directions by rote. I'm never entirely sure what I'm actually doing and crossing my fingers I'm not overwriting something, whereas on SVN you're pushing buttons that are more or less transparent about what they'll do.

    3. AluminumHaste

      AluminumHaste

      I had the same problem when going from SVN for TDM, to GIT for DarkRadiant, whenever it didn't just work, I had no idea what do to. Usually just running it again would make it work.

    4. SeriousToni

      SeriousToni

      I also dislike Git. We have to use it at work and I ever fear it most, when you manually have to merge stuff. A pain in the *** every single time :D

  20. The group talking with us about going standalone, New Media Rights, is also talking with us (TDM) about participating in an interview series on gaming & rights. Discussion on that series went to #3 on the Reddit games page today. So this could be some good press for us if it happens. http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/131fno/gabe_newell_talking_about_how_valve_works_chris/

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    2. demagogue

      demagogue

      I forgot to mention the reason it's getting buzz is because they're interviewing cool people about cool things -- Gabe Newell (Valve), Chris Avellone (Black Isle), the co-founder of IGN, The creator of SpaceChem, etc. We're supposed to be in the queue. We'd be in awesome company!

    3. STiFU

      STiFU

      I nominate Greebo and Springheel as representatives... :)

    4. demagogue

      demagogue

      I've been working with them, so I think I'll do it -- not that they'd be bad (far from it!), just I think they'll want to talk about what we've worked on, or the issues around it. But I'd want to know what people think are good things we should let them know too.

  21. I'm excited that Voxel Farm has finally released their tools to the public. http://procworld.blogspot.jp/2015/03/get-voxel-farm.html

    1. demagogue

      demagogue

      Anybody fancy making a "Minecraft meets Skyrim" clone and cashing in for a few billion?

    2. Xarg

      Xarg

      Can I be the consultant who achieves little and still makes a more than tidy sum?

    3. Xarg

      Xarg

      Alternatively we could just make yet another DayZ ripoff and cash in hard on that too.

  22. I can't believe it's taking 8 minutes to download just the screenshots of Briarwood Cathedral, only 2.3 MB. Forget about the FM itself! Wifi in developing countries like Burma has a long way to go... =L

    1. OrbWeaver

      OrbWeaver

      The fact that you can even get Wi-fi in a "developing" country seems like pretty substantial progress.

    2. Tels

      Tels

      The screenshots shoulnd't be that big tho, they are displayed quite lowres in the menu, anyway. Anyone for slimming them down?

    3. demagogue

      demagogue

      Not worth it. I'll see them & get the FM when I get back to Japan.

  23. I made an Editing FAQ on the wiki. If you know some FAQ, please contribute: wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=Editing_FAQ_(Troubleshooting_%26_How-To)

    1. SeriousToni

      SeriousToni

      That's amazing! You can find the solutions to many things quickly! Nice!

    2. demagogue
    3. demagogue

      demagogue

      The "&" has to be substituted with %-26 (take out the "-"). Stupid format switch.

  24. I'm looking at this stairway right now waiting for my train, and all I can think is tsk tsk, messy brushwork! http://i64.tinypic.com/15y7tpd.jpg

    1. demagogue

      demagogue

      Stairs appearing to poke through walls like that drive me crazy.

    2. Sotha

      Sotha

      Sloppy build sure, but I like the worn and dirty looking textures.

    3. Bikerdude
  25. Some of us are looking for a coder for a Thief project. A guy named Tos released the sourcecode for his multiplayer version of Thief2. The catch is it's not currently compatible with New Dark. Can any of you think of any coder & Thief fan that might be interested in trying to get it to be at least compatible?

    1. demagogue
    2. SeriousToni

      SeriousToni

      I wished for this to happen since he abandoned his own project and hoped this will becme true since New Dark came out. Sadly I can't do coding. :( Good luck with this VIP (very important project :)

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