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  1. Solarix, the SS2-like indie stealth game now has a Kickstarter! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kissltd/solarix

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    2. chakkman
    3. Sotha

      Sotha

      Looked so... Rough. I hope they get to complete it though.

    4. Airship Ballet

      Airship Ballet

      I read that as "SSX 2-like indie stealth game" and got all excited about snowboard stealth.

  2. 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!

  3. Spain forced into bailout - Europe well and truly fucked. Well done, WELL FUCKING DONE!

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    2. Sotha

      Sotha

      Hey guys! Start a thread in the OT section for this please. I'm also very interested in this (I bet everyone are or have to be). I'm not a specialist but I've also got the feeling that the credit raters create a self-implementing prophecy to ruin us all.

    3. jay pettitt

      jay pettitt

      Certainly I think the UK has been exceptionally weak about bank regulation post the 2008 crash. Europe proper was making some serious moves towards some tax disincentives for bank naughtiness, but the UK didn't want to play nice with the other kids for fear of disgruntling our City of London finance overlords. And when it comes to regulation in a global market, lowest common denominator wins.

       

      I know Gordon Brown was helluva unpopular, but in hindsight, this new lot we've go...

    4. jay pettitt

      jay pettitt

      ...g...go... got in are a complete disgrace.

  4. Springheel revealed: http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7fqkg26eB1r2nfvbo1_400.jpg For only five pence!

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    2. nbohr1more

      nbohr1more

      New mod asset in 3.. 2.. 1..

    3. stumpy

      stumpy

      only problem is in victorian times the price would be 6d (sixpence, there being no 5 pence)

    4. Diego
  5. Stairs. Why did it have to be stairs? :(

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    2. Melan

      Melan

      Surely, it is time to scrap the mission, then. ;)

    3. Sotha

      Sotha

      Yes! While we are at it, we can also close the newbie DR thread if giving advise with good intentions is considered patronizing.

    4. Melan

      Melan

      No offense was taken.

  6. Started a Veteran Xenonauts campaign, entire landing party wiped out on first mission. Eeep.

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    2. Airship Ballet

      Airship Ballet

      Xenonauts for depth, X-COM Enemy Unknown if you haven't got much time to put into it.

       

      "AUTORESOLVE (100% VICTORY)" ... [engage manually] ... "SIGNAL LOST, HOW DID YOU MANAGE TO FAIL THAT, SERIOUSLY, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU"

    3. Melan

      Melan

      Can't comment on Enemy Unknown, but Xenonauts is very faithful to the original UFO. It has a slightly slower tech creep and less terrain destruction, but otherwise, very close.

       

      You can also try OpenXcom, which ports UFO to new hardware and adds a ton of options on the top.

    4. Melan

      Melan

      I spent a lot of time in the Summer playing OpenXcom.

  7. System Shock 2: Still freaking terrifying. Get those things away from me! :o

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    2. Diego

      Diego

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

    3. Melan

      Melan

      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.

    4. AluminumHaste

      AluminumHaste

      Don't forget to use Newshock patch!

  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. The "go to first unread post" function seems to malfunction on my side. Is it working for everyone else?

    1. Goldwell

      Goldwell

      I just tested it on your post in the Crucible thread and it worked for me

    2. SteveL

      SteveL

      I am sure it was playing up for me recently on one of my mobile browsers too, but it's working ok now. I use Firefox on the PC, Chrome on the phone (because Firefox for android handles the forum desktop version badly)

  10. The Art of Trolling: now available in PDF! http://www.library.unh.edu/digital/object/digital:00012

    1. Xarg
    2. demagogue

      demagogue

      I like Chapter VII "On the baits of trolling". XD

  11. The Artist: a genuinely good movie. Highly recommended.

    1. Bikerdude

      Bikerdude

      hehe you and your black and white movies...

    2. Melan

      Melan

      Colour is for the easily impressed. ;)

    3. pusianka

      pusianka

      Hym... I don't know, wonder what Master Diego thinks of it...

  12. 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
  13. The end of The end is nigh

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    2. AluminumHaste

      AluminumHaste

      Thank god, I hope that thread gets burned and vasectomied out of the forums.

       

    3. ungoliant

      ungoliant

      LOL tell us how you really feel, AH

    4. Sir Taffsalot

      Sir Taffsalot

      It's the end of the thread as I know it and I feel fine

  14. The joy of Steam: can't play Deus Ex: HR without a net connection since the saves are stored on their cloud. Yaaaaay.

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    2. Melan

      Melan

      With the connection on my main PC restored, the saves work again. Still.

    3. jtr7

      jtr7

      What NH said. Man. :(

    4. AluminumHaste

      AluminumHaste

      They're not only stored in the cloud, they are saved locally and then mirrored to the cloud. Start steam in offline mode and play it that way.

  15. The last time I visited Berlin was in Autumn 2008, the exact days the world economy collapsed and all those banks went bankrupt. My plane departs tomorrow morning, so plan accordingly. :D

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    2. SeriousToni

      SeriousToni

      Please give us a break! xD

    3. demagogue

      demagogue

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

    4. Sotha

      Sotha

      Ah, now I see it. Cyprus.

  16. The official Jack Vance home page is now open at http://www.jackvance.com/home/ e-books by one of the greatest living literary stylists of our age are on sale.

    1. Bikerdude

      Bikerdude

      I have to say ive never head of the man... shows just how little I read..

  17. The Queen of Thieves does it again - "Airplane Gizi", now almost 90, has been caught planning a break-in in Austria! (context: http://tinyurl.com/ovkqjh8 )

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    2. Goldwell

      Goldwell

      Wow thats actually pretty clever... shitty for the people she's robbing though of course

    3. lowenz

      lowenz

      Queen of beggars? :D

    4. Petike the Taffer

      Petike the Taffer

      This woman is a fascinating character ! 8-D

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    2. Melan

      Melan

      Still not sure this article wasn't subtle satire. Head hurtz.

    3. Bikerdude
    4. VanishedOne

      VanishedOne

      It's quite possible the article is satire, but vampire and related communities are real: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otherkin#Description The Bloodlines entry on GOG's community wishlist used to get a load of scam spam like http://rfjseddon.net/ext/vampire_spammers.png

  18. There are no words: "Tetris, the block-stacking game that comes in near the top of many lists of greatest games ever, is being made into a live-action, feature-length, "sci-fi epic" motion picture, The Tetris Company announced today."

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    2. Melan

      Melan

      The Tetris Company is a real thing, and I support it because for several years, Alexey Payitnov didn't receive proper royalties from his game. So he deserves whatever money he can get for it.

       

      The movie is still a bizarre idea, though.

    3. Obsttorte
    4. Airship Ballet
  19. There is a day in your life when you turn to the Internet for entertainment and you discover it has nothing whatsoever to offer. Scary.

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    2. lost_soul
    3. lost_soul

      lost_soul

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

    4. AluminumHaste

      AluminumHaste

      Thanks lost_soul, that was a good read.

  20. There must have been *something* on September 17th 1980.

  21. This comment is not available in your territory.

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    2. Sotha

      Sotha

      This opinion has been censored because it contains unsuitable views. Viewing this message is above your current security priviledges. Do you want to send an error report to the Internal Security? Failure to send the error report is treason. [A]bort, [R]etry, [F]ail?

    3. Xarg

      Xarg

      Oh Germany, you and your video blocking ways.

    4. SeriousToni

      SeriousToni

      It's the GEMA which wants all the money and youtube refuses.

  22. Those days when you get up seven in the morning full of ambition, and realise it is already eight o' clock due to daylight saving time...

    1. Airship Ballet

      Airship Ballet

      There's a seven in the morning on a weekend?

    2. Sotha

      Sotha

      Yep. That the hour when the children awake and come jumping on your belly. A memorable hour indeed. ;)

  23. 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.

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