Melan

This game is orders of magnitude more fun than it initially seems. I definitely recommend trying it if you're in the mood for something strange and amusing.

It's got a black sense of humor for sure. I saw a video review of it and played it after that. Yes it is more fun than it looks, when you add the situations and personalities and humor.

There's always stuff to read, for example this. http://www.xda-developers.com/android/fairsearch-org-claims-android-is-a-trojan-horse-not-the-malware-type/

He basically rips their whole argument apart piece by piece. I found it an excellent (and funny) read.

Thanks lost_soul, that was a good read.

We had a lot of rain today. So it's not that hot anymore.

I can't stand being overheated. But, as if I had wished for a wish from a devious genie, I have the opposite problem. I sleep downstairs and my wife cranks the A\C until I'm frozen. I wear winter pajamas in the summer. Then when I do go outside I sweat like a pig.

I have the same problem - plus I tend to catch a cold due to the heat differences. So I use generous quantities of soda water instead of AC.

This means that you must release it now.

I think I'll have a test package ready tomorrow or something like that.

I just did the same last night when testing progress on the rebuild of my first map.

Somebody else posted this recently. I laughed.

The funniest ones are from that era of 2000 onward where everyone thought that the PS2 was this transcendental portal to new artistic experience.

Diego.. ^^

You know there is a prefab for it? But I'm excited, too. ;D

Yeah, but nothing like learning it for yourself ;-)

Thats amazing

It's got a black humor. Just the very premise... You play an official in a police state, haha, so wrong... Only an indie game could get away with that. FWIW, I remember feeling for E.Europe in the '80s & being endlessly fascinated to meet & talk to people from there... And now we can. =)

The premise seems like something out of a joke. "What would be the most boring game ever? How about dealing with bureaucratic paper work of some communist republic?" A developer that can turn that into something interesting is a god!

Great game. And Republia Times cool too!

Words of wisdom, I will do none of that!

REDRUM

heeeeere's melan!

I tried to play SS1 but it just didn't made my mind. SS2 is better?

Well, no, but it is a very different kind of good. If you like Thief, you will almost certainly like SS2. Don't forget to install SS2Tool ( from http://www.systemshock.org/index.php?topic=4141.0 ) and the following mods: http://www.systemshock.org/index.php?topic=4447.0 These should really improve the graphics while staying faithful to the look and feel of the game.

Don't forget to use Newshock patch!

I loved Bioshock 1 but for some reason I couldn't get in ti Bioshock 2. I got as far the third level and gave up. So I've been on the fence with regards to No. 3. If it's thats good then I'll probably give it a go. Will try and wait until I've finished my campaign though.

Wasn't Citizen Kane only really revered well after it debuted? I remember reading that it wasn't all that well received when it first released.. we may already have our Citizen Kane, and are just waiting on someone to recognise it.

you have to be online to play it, and the game saves when it thinks you should save, you have no control to save when you feel like it. its basically a passageway and arena game, the levels feel open, while you can do some exploring its rather restricted to a couple of rooms, or corridors leading to the other side of a gate. They've gone out of the way to make the game feel like its set in the time period its set in. There's some game ethic's that may offend some people. eg racial segregation.

Why did you do some work on GR jaxa..?

Saw Grimrock 1 on discount on steam and decided to buy it. Fun game, thus far. It's been a while after Lands of Lore: Throne of Chaos...

*thanks for showing us this cool sequel

Please give us a break! xD

I am a pastry. Have a good trip & don't ruin the world please.

Ah, now I see it. Cyprus.

MMORPG? How disappointing.

I love spaceships in my mediaeval fantasy, though. Very much.

It can be good , it can be bad. Games like AD&D Spelljammer, or Wizardry series are so confusing: party is taken from fantasy world into spaceship, left on another fantasy planet to fight with some Darth Vader cousin and his robot minions. Plus valkiries on jet scooters, plus rhino humanoids with muzzleloaders... what a mess.

Wizardry VII was the best classic RPG, and I love it to death. It is one of my favourite games precisely because of its strange technology-meets-magic style.

@Obsttorte: Sure, and now there are even more people searching through archives to implicate their opponents.

But the proverb says, "if you have butter on your head, don't go out into the sunlight".

Who said THAT

It's an old folk saying.

But def. very cool.

Oh man, the guy is a commedian! Very cool indeed (even though I never liked dungeon crawlers in my childhood).

And a new, more stable version is out: http://www.filedropper.com/grimoiredemov12

politician

No politician. Politicians do not tell their real stance towards things. This one did present their stance quite clearly.

then maybe a woman (I know, not funny)

I'm having a bit of an FM break at the mo. Its on my "To Play" list though. I usually get around to playing all Thief / TDM FMs eventually.

Haven't played a T2 FM in ages. Maybe I should get back to it... =)

The amount of Thief FMs released might not be as many as before but there have still been plenty of high quality releases over the past few years. I'd be happy to provide a list of recs.

13/13/13

You people have it all wrong, the next special date is a palindrome: 02/02/2020

Sotha: Russian was a poor example. I meant that even tho the language might reflect badly on the writer, it's the message that counts. Of course, I rather prefer a professional, well-thought out and presented opinion, too, but sometimes cutting through the bullshit is easier when you can just every f-word instead of reverse translating stuff like "utelizing synergy-driven brand effects"

Sure, but an intelligent writer should be aware that their important message may be completely ignored due to inability to write properly. Their important message will sink into the bottomless depths of empty-minded drivel that is the blogosphere. In the modern era information flood, the reader must carefully evaluate the data on multiple criterion before accepting it.

Absolutely true. There was a very insightful article around Julian Assange's alledged rape and the situation in Sweden, where things seem to have gotten out of control regarding what is defined as rape. However, the article was so hateful and biased that even if all stated fact were true, I could not ever use it as a reference.

My favorite Elite clone was Hardwar, and I wish that'd get an updated treatment. But a new version of Elite itself would be very cool too!

Already pledged 20 GBP. While there is no real info on Elite (neither video nor screens), the campaign runs for 60 days. This is plenty time to make up my mind and retreat, if necessary.

Proof that TDM forums are intellectual, even the spambots are high brow.

no porn spams either. Proof of asexual? Lulz

I think the Phaedo has to be my favorite dialog. "He who contemplates existence through the medium of ideas, sees them only through a glass darkly".

(We can leave the thread for journalism corruption, but just on this...) Then the issue in academia is money flowing to the more corruptable fields like science & engineering with the big corporate grants & revolving door with staff. The humanities might not get that, but OTOH they are getting pressured to "justify their existence" financially. I could probably agree it's rife in almost any human field though, as long as there are incentives there will be corruption.

Or then we have the "uncorruptable" critical academics, but then they're basing their work on Derrida or Marx and are so detached from reality they throw their credibility out the window. It's good to be critically detached, not so good to be derailed from reality. My position in law sometimes is something like a critical realism, but it's practically an orphan position. (You want to protect victims *and* think science works??? Wha...?)

Who is uncorruptable anyways? I cannot convince even myself that I would be uncorruptable in every situation. And I perceive myself to be situated in the more-reliable-than-50%-of-the-general-population side in the gaussian distribution curve of corruption. Problematic, yes?

Heh, lets not get ahead of ourselves...

Stealthtober

Well deserved!