Sotha

Can't wait for another Sotha mission!

A new Sotha mission?! We have been blessed by the Lord Builder himself!

Nice to hear about the return of an old classic. I hope "last offering" is meant in the sense of last of this year?

AI revision:

Today, I began writing readable content for my work-in-progress mission.

I drafted my usual text and then fed it into an AI tool, and voilà—high-quality material emerged!

I used to say that Clipper is the mapper's best friend, but now it seems that AI has taken that title.

There is a topic about this:

and this:

And I use ai to generate subtitles from voice files.

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oday, I began writing readable content for my work-in-progress mission.

I drafted my usual text and then fed it into an AI tool, and voilà—high-quality material emerged!

When testing your mission I was thinking that those readable could have some improvements.

Most excellent! Thx!

Kiitos! =D

Kiitos indeed. :-) And credit where credit is due, literally !

The sense of mystery, and each stage outdoing itself, was great. I also spent a great amount of time making the perfect base ... so much so I should get back to the actual game at some point.

It depends on how often you get to play. Too many days in between and I'll forget all the significant story clues and locations.

I imagine a lot of us are older/oldish gamers with more responsibilities than we used to have, meaning less free time. I ranted about this in the quest thread, but still, I'm a big believer in quality rather than quantity. Can be great if we have both (and the time), but I'd rather smaller games that pack in a lot of good shit than have it spread out with a lot of filler. Portal comes to mind.

One thing I like about contest FMs, especially ones with tight space restrictions, is that it focuses authors to package a lot of gameplay in a little space. There's a kind of special art to it that makes them unique and fun to play. It might be good for authors to give themselves those kind of restrictions for a normal FM even without the contest.

It's only aggravated by our unhealthy postmodernist swings in society. Lots of people need help.

Sotha's comment re: cricism.

This is something I try to do in all things - students will better respond to "deconstructive" critique if it is followed by "constructive" critique of their work.

A compliment must always have some kind of back-hander, as people are unused to receiving positive criticism - in some cases, unable to receive it due to the disparity between themselves and the standard of their work.

A kind word (preferably action)...

...can make all the difference.

It starts with this.

Other people judge and qualify me (eg, I am not an artist, unless I am doing it and people say that I am).

I am not qualified to judge myself or others - only a person's work.

Critiquing the work depersonalises the issue and thereby affects condifence in other ways, without affecting psyche.

I agree - praise the work, not the person.

The terrorism, and the general political response to it, is part of the reason those people are gaining power.

There's a difference between Trump and Dughin inspired conspirologist/anti-globalist/pro-Russian opportunists.

Lotsa discussion here, I'll start a thread

Where's the fun without the complications?

Wouldn't it be nice if people spent time being skeptical of unusual claims made on days OTHER than April 1st?

Let's build a wall against lies and have the media/politicians pay for it! ;D

I don't know how to do it, so Biker, if you could, I would be ever so grateful! Thanks!

Done.

Thanks man!

I mean, the work by me is fast, but the exporting of the final product by the software (OpenShot) takes forever.

Investigate if the program in question supports GPU encoding. It will go at real-time speed, or faster.

Cool

Nice, can't wait to watch it.

Awesome work! Looking forward to seeing this, hopefully pick up a couple of new mapping techniques

Buy the kid some lego and teach him your modular building technique!

Make sure your kids are safely locked up in the car, with the windows wound up.

That last one is sisnister.

Congrats, Mr. Sotha. Best wishes!

Congrats and health! We wish you and your "addition" the very best! But don't forget about us waiting for you to come back!

Woo-hoo!

No, we wont!

Smiley overload (I'm sure the mission will be fun, surprise or not.)

After that mission is out, can you tell us "you know, this mission right here contains that little extra I have talked about?" Would be very nice of you

Congrats!

Such a brillant and beautiful mission, as usual! Congratulation and thanks!

And a good mission it was

the EU is a dictatorship. They create laws you can not object to, you have to except without question.

The European Union was a dream given form. Its goal, to prevent another war by creating a place where humans could work out their differences peacefully. It's a port of call - home away from home for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs, and wanderers. Several countries situated on many billion tons of earth, all alone in the night.

I looked it up the EU is based on the Russian model that created the USSR minus the communism. So the goal is for all member states to cease to become countries and just be member states. Which would mean one national football team, one Olympic team, one seat on the UN.

I can beat it in under 5 hours.

Yes, it is very easy once you know the missions. AH, hitman 1 does not penalize at all killing every single enemy combatant, so you could make stuff really easy for yourself. Just discreetly clear the area you want to operate in and so forth.

I tried to play the second one a while ago, and I couldn't get into it. I wanted to play stealthy and it wasn't fun at all this way.

That would be Young Taaaki are Server supremo.

Thanks Taaaki! It really made me notice how often I stop by at least.

I was terrorized when I've seen TDM page down :-(

I quickly jumped (returned) to see any news on TTLG, after some years, just to get some news on the Volta FM (IMHO a masterpiece!)

I had some crashes with 2.0.3. Didn't lose work, fortunately. Maybe I'll give *pre3 a go. Thanks!

Yup. feels pretty solid this *pre3. Well, except the Z-axis rotation bug, that was already reported. I've been clicking around and the basic flood plan is something like 60% done. This is more fun than I remembered!

You will also find that some task in 203pre3 are considerable faster and smoother than 181 - such as entity inspector, or scrolling around orthoview with full view enabled....

Oh man brutal doom is the bomb. I hadn't loaded it as I hadn't been playing DooM in ages but it's beast.

I agree, Brutal Doom is the best of what happened to Doom1/2 and one of the best mods out there.

Will have to give this a try just for the new levels. Speaking of new levels, have you tried that e1m8 alternative that was released not long ago, with Brutal Doom?

Unfortunately that seems to be a particularly virulent problem

Very wisely said Airship. I don't even want to think about how traumatized the People were who were Walking out of that theatre alive, when one by one of the others were being executed... there's just too much Publicity for muslim Terror, instead of thinking about the victims, their families and friends.

Sorry for capitals, damn MS Edge auto correction...

I can't even fathom how you could expect more from a mission created on such short notice. Any entry that is better than this mission deserves a hypothetical 6 star rating.

Wow! Thanks, nbohr! But let's not be hasty. Other mappers still have many days before the deadline, and the quality level of TDM missions is nowadays very high. I really hope to see the other entries to excel in quality, because playing an excellent mission or two is always fun.

Wow, astonishing speed! Gutted I won't have time to play it until the comnpetition date anyway due to travel