Nyarlathotep
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I only see two pictures at that site, and I've never seen the Batman one. Given that I'm totally Batman-obsessed, would you do me a favor and get me a direct link? Pretty please?
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I've actually seen this guy's work before. It's really impressive stuff.
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Erm...that would be at 12:00 GMT. That'll be in four and a half hours.
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Dear Press,
Since when was the nuclear family the typical American family? Over 50% of children are conceived out wedlock! Doting wife? The divorce rate is at an unprecedented level--mostly because divorce is finally becoming an acceptable alternative (that, and so-called "starter marriages"). Three kids? How are they going to afford college if they've been run into the ground by the monster of a healthcare system that we have in place?
Do me a favor; don't take the nuclear family option. The fallout lasts for years. It's a false image, and you bloody well know that. The American Dream has never been having a wife, two kids, and a mortgage on a bloody McMansion; that was never the point. The point was to make something of yourself. The people have lost their way, and you are to blame. You know this isn't the only time you committed grievous sin of lying to the public. You should be ashamed of yourselves.
Sincerely,
Nyarlathotep
P.S., building a home for that family (not that you had anything to do with it) was really nice, and something of which I'd like to see more.
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@DigitalNapalm: I'm not so sure I like the idea of having rubber. In the real world, rubber is (originally) a New World product, and synthetics were invented to supplant a lack of natural rubber. Now, synthetic rubber would not have been invented for a very long time if people were not already aware of the usefulness of rubber--and at the earliest, would not be seen until polymerization and plastics entered into general usage, most likely.
Rubber is extremely vital to how our current society operates, and if the Builders and Inventor's Guild have never discovered rubber, they would be severely limited in their capacity to achieve. In fact, their technology would be essentially limited to a medieval level, with exceptions--most of which would be fairly rare. Hey! That sounds exactly like the Dark Mod universe! That's why I am extremely hesitant to introduce rubber. It's a hop, skip and a jump away from vulcanization and then it's the Rubber Revolution.
Without the almighty rubber, Diesel and Stirling engines, while still enormously useful, become extremely limited compared to their modern incarnations. In fact, it would be likely that they would be considered by and large novelties (particularly the Diesel engine). Fuel would be vastly limited in comparison to coal and even wood, and the primary (initial) users of Diesel engines, farmers (they are the ones who have the access to the largest supplies of vegetable oil), would be far too poor, and very likely without the modern tools and techniques we take for today. Furthermore, the nobles might even look down on the alternate fuels as being for the poor!
As for the calendar system, I think it's great! Although, I would still argue for the inclusion of months--lunar months, that is. Having months based on the moon (beginning on the end of the new moon) would be extremely useful for populace. (The current system of 12 months is more a relic of the Roman Empire than a useful time-keeping system.) NB: this means there would be 13 months a year.
If you care, I can write up some more comments on the rest later.
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Ooo... I like that!
Err...not the torture obviously, the models. (Sometimes we have to specify these things--this is one of those times.)
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We should probably create footprint decals for the mappers to use, though.
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That's great stuff, DigitalNapalm! I'll have to take a closer look later today.
Some one official will have to tell you what their plans are on laying out districts for the city, though.Let the mappers work it out.
I don't know of any specific layouts that have been prescribed in any sort of real detail. Something like this would have been laid down for the (indefinitely postponed) campaign, not by the toolset. Springheel would know better than I. -
It refuses to let me vote, saying I've already voted in the past 24 hours (not even in 48--sorry, mate).
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I didn't say that there'd be a lot of benefits, just that there are some. Besides I never said we should actually do it.
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There would be the benefit that we could program the AI to recognize bootprints and possibly track the player--so long as the player has a way of removing the footprints.
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I've encountered that before, as well as thelyvn(sp?), and I'm pretty sure sparhawk has had it happen to him too. It's not where you post, it's what you're posting. So far, we've encountered G CC and g ++ triggering the filters (without the spaces, obviously).
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One point about normal maps that Baddcog forgot to mention: all materials in Doom 3 must have a normal map--if it doesn't, D3 will generate a flat normal map for it. The only reason not to use a normal map for an object is for space considerations.
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I've torrented a lot of speed runs--I don't think I've ever bothered with tv shows.
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So that's what you mean by a revenant!
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Yeah, I think we can sacrifice a couple of extra polys for that. BTW, what do you mean by revenants?
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Yeah, the straight arms are bothering me. The thing about the arms of a bow--the thing is, they tend to bow a bit.
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I have two games currently on order from Amazon. I'm hardly a thief--or does it strain credulity too much that there are actually legitimate uses for torrenting?
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It's also great for things that are a pain to set up manually, like doors.
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Ooo... Gladius...
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Yeah, I pretty much know everything that happens in the Thief series, and I haven't even bought T:DS!
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I'm preferential to utorrent myself, but it has the annoying habit of not providing encryption or Linux support--both of which Azureus does have, as sucky as it may be.
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Glad to make you feel better.
I actually haven't finished T2--although, I only started it this year. I started the first mission, realized that I had completely forgotten how to properly sneak in the game, and quit before I even got to the ground floor.
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Well, I think we should use normal maps + addnormals() as much as possible to keep the sizes down. I wouldn't be too surprised if we wound up with only one or two diffuse and specular textures each for clean snow.