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  1. Not really TDM-related, but I have just released a RPG fanzine: http://beyondfomalhaut.blogspot.hu/2018/03/zine-echoes-from-fomalhaut-01-now.html

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    2. kingsal

      kingsal

      Congrats Melan! I'm definitely going to check this out.

    3. Melan
    4. Petike the Taffer

      Petike the Taffer

      I find your RPG site very interesting, loads of projects and scenarios to explore. Hope you are doing fine.

  2. Lost in the PowerPoint mines, health low, no exit in sight... do I hear SPIDERSSSS?

    1. Bikerdude

      Bikerdude

      PowerPoint mines..?

    2. Sotha

      Sotha

      REVERSE POLARITIES IMMEDIATELY!

    3. Spooks

      Spooks

      I think that's the sound of a STAR WIPE

  3. While we are on topic, my book, "Reindustrialisation in Central Europe", has been published in hardcover! 10 years of work, 328 pages, and a beautiful cover: https://68.media.tumblr.com/da1d8329ae2e08337c324a5d75dd1ccb/tumblr_onts829YcT1rxmn3vo1_1280.jpg

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    2. Melan

      Melan

      lowenz: Unfortunately not... but I actually have an edited volume coming out at Routledge this year. :D

    3. Bikerdude

      Bikerdude

      Well done young man!

    4. jaredmitchell

      jaredmitchell

      Don't I feel lazy now. Congratulations!

  4. Breathing Corpses: another astounding T2 mission - vast, complex and imaginative. Wow!

  5. Unexpected Detour by DarkMax is another must play for Thief 2. Play it at night with low gamma!

  6. Man-oh-man, the new ambience trailer for The Black Parade is such a thing of beauty...

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    2. Tarhiel

      Tarhiel

      In what way were they better?

    3. Melan

      Melan

      Tarhiel: they would agressively look for "vantage points" to keep their distance and get a better shot at you, and as a consequence, were harder to catch.

    4. vvGarrettvv

      vvGarrettvv

      I`m so excited about `Black Parade`. Finally a campaign. And it looks awsum.:)

       

  7. Behind Closed Doors has been released! .)

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    2. nbohr1more

      nbohr1more

      Thief 2: Behind Closed Doors by Nicked. Heh.

    3. Goldwell

      Goldwell

      OH wow yes! Going to be playing that tonight for sure :D

    4. Bikerdude
  8. T2: Godbreaker - level 2 is excellent swamp level, level 4 is one of the great, expansive rooftop missions. Some problems, but highly recommended!

    1. Bikerdude
    2. kingsal

      kingsal

      Loving it so far. I agree the swamp level is fantastic and eerie.

    3. freyk

      freyk

      here is a link of the walktrough by Fen:

  9. New Twin Peaks trailer meets all expectations:

    1. demagogue

      demagogue

      Lol. He always had that wry comic edge.

  10. Jupiter Hell from the makers of the excellent Doom: the Roguelike is now on Kickstarter. Hyped! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2020043306/jupiter-hell-a-modern-turn-based-sci-fi-roguelike

  11. 'Tis too quiet. Maybe I should summon the minstrel!

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    2. ERH+

      ERH+

      Level up! Pick a new perk.

    3. Dunedain19

      Dunedain19

      Happy birthday, Melan!

    4. Tarhiel

      Tarhiel

      Belated Happy Birthday, Melan! :)

  12. Slaying bugs like I'm on Starship Troopers!

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    2. Sotha

      Sotha

      "I'm here. I ate every bug along the way. There were many"

    3. nbohr1more

      nbohr1more

      Paul Verhoeven is a Goddamned genius. He needs to make a new scifi-jingoist satire film. Especially now that retro-80's "outrun" movies and music are in style. He should make a retro-future Robocop 4 with 80's anachronisms and X-rated violence to wash away the sins of the 2014 reboot.

    4. Dragofer

      Dragofer

      If only they didn't respawn in new shapes everytime it looks cleared, over and over

  13. Replaying Requiem: every bit as good as I remembered! :)

  14. Sooo, what are your favourite flickering light textures?

    1. ERH+

      ERH+

      My favourite is super fast strobe flickering (square_flicker?) If your cpu is melting during play, why not squize some extra Hertz from your brain too?

    2. Dragofer

      Dragofer

      I quite like the lanternbot's spotlight, it has a whiff of organic to it

    3. Melan

      Melan

      Enlightening!

  15. Those times when you screw up a cunning idea and end up rebuilding a few things just so you don't have to discard it? It is one of those times!

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    2. Sotha

      Sotha

      Ah, yes, now I understand. You want to make it realistic from engineering point of view. That certainly makes it more difficult, especially if you need it to have an exterior, too. If it would have only an interior, it would be really easy.

    3. Sotha

      Sotha

      My strategy, if I was doing it would be like this. Since submarines do not have windows, exterior is not needed. Just build an interior inside boxy sealing geometry. If you really want to show the submarin from the outside, you could build a separate area with an exterior-only version of the ship. Since the player needs to use an airlock to get it, you teleport the player to the interior version when the player accesses the ship.

    4. ERH+

      ERH+

      Hmm I will give it a try, maybe it will make a big difference.

  16. Now at 15352 brushes, 6064 patches and 5282 entities. Scary.

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    2. Sotha

      Sotha

      Argh! All them cool kids have maps cookin'!

       

      I still have the WIP I put on hold when I started the Golden Skull, but I haven't got any time to pour on it. Too busy all the time.

       

      One of these days I'm gonna finish the work I started...

    3. Goldwell

      Goldwell

      @Sotha you need to quit your job and focus on the right priorities!! :P

       

      @Melan that sounds amazing, I can't wait!

    4. Melan

      Melan

      @Sotha: Says the man who has already delivered a full campaign, and is in the middle of another? :)

  17. The Black Parade is coming! http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=146501 Woo-hoo!

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    2. demagogue

      demagogue

      I suppose making a campaign as an individual and building for Thief Gold go hand & hand. You need to be pretty obsessed to do either. XD

    3. Epifire

      Epifire

      I'm just very happy to see how much work still goes on with the original Thief games. Good mods = long life after release!

    4. lowenz
  18. Any maps to recommend where I could study how others use sound_loss on info_locationseparators?

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    2. Melan

      Melan

      Thank you, grayman!

    3. Melan

      Melan

      Interesting, quite high sound loss values there.

    4. SteveL

      SteveL

      NB there's a bug with sound loss that causes sound card pops in a complex enough map. It'll be fixed soon in 2.04

  19. BRB, making TDM levels great again. (hopefully)

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    2. demagogue

      demagogue

      Let's deport all the revenant and zombie terrorists while we're at it!

    3. grayman

      grayman

      And you know who's going to pay for The Wall? We're going to make the Evil Overlord pay for The Wall. It'll be the biggest wall, because I only build great walls. Great walls. It'll keep out everything. Nothing will get through. And the Evil Overlord will pay for it!

       

    4. stumpy

      stumpy

      seems a bit odd...if the evil overlord has to build it wont they undermine it by putting tunnels under it. Or you could just invest in some boats and come around the ends.

  20. All work and no play makes Melan a dull boy.

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    2. VanishedOne

      VanishedOne

      That depends on which planet you're on, so it's a hardware problem.

    3. Sotha

      Sotha

      Indeed! Now we just need a bunch of engineers and an array of globally positioned super-efficient rocket engines to slow down the spin of the Earth. I'm sure the kickstarter crowd funding will be a great success when we tell the masses they will get more hours to their days.

    4. VanishedOne
  21. RIP Umberto Eco.

    1. lowenz

      lowenz

      It's heart-warming to see an italian writer so appreciated in the ALL world :)

    2. demagogue

      demagogue

      Some writers transcend nationality, and he's one.

    3. Anderson

      Anderson

      He was alright. Though postmodernism generally seems very vague to me.

  22. Consortium: The Tower - Why is this Kickstarter such a well-kept secret?!

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    2. Melan

      Melan

      jaxa: Duh, forgot I could include URLs in my status updates here (can't do it on other forums).

       

      SiyahParsomen: Sadly, I don't think so either.

    3. Baal

      Baal

      Already pledged, even though I haven't played the first one yet. But I like the idea.

    4. Epifire

      Epifire

      Why have I knot heard of this?! If I had the kinda cash they needed, that's something I'd get behind.

  23. Fixed n bugs, created 2n bugs, day well spent.

    1. Goldwell

      Goldwell

      I spent the day building my first church! Btw thanks for your prefabs, makes it a lot easier building church and gothic designed things ;)

    2. Melan

      Melan

      Good to read that!

    3. Bikerdude

      Bikerdude

      Been there done that.

  24. So I just spent thirty minutes looking for my Thief Gold box, which was in plain sight on a bookshelf all along. I even inspected its area twice, but didn't find it due to its black box. I swear that thing was hiding in the shadows. :o

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    2. jaxa

      jaxa

      Shed your physical attachments, Melan.

    3. Bienie

      Bienie

      Maybe there was something wrong with the frob highlight? ^^

    4. Melan

      Melan

      There was certainly no loot glow around it!

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