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I think you're overanalyzing it. People are drawn and interested in stuff they've been exposed to from childhood. If a girl liked football and played it in teenage years, she will play Fifa whatever we think of that. So today actually variety becomes much more visible and everyone will benefit from this fact. I'm glad that the internet allows changes in developed countries reach poorer ones very swiftly. Look no further then Ice Pick Lodge to see how an attempt to create complex games that try to appeal aesthetically and use all of that convoluted allegorical stuff was made with quite a few female developers. And their games are horror/strategy/painting/RPG's with micromanagement. With all due respect, there is no conspiracy or agenda against anyone. We need more mental exercises, more contemplation. Not analysis. The competition that you talk about is a false impression that is given in the modern world. It does not exist. We don't take it to the grave. You don't even take anger to the grave. We were born in flesh and we die in flesh. Personally I want to make the best use of myself in that regard. For this reason I struggle to understand why you're pushing this narrative. Left wing people are also people. Until you get in one of the situations of discrimination or whatever they're talking about, you'll never level with them. And that stuff does exist. But it's no reason to be intolerant. At least from a pragmatic perspective. Life isn't worth it. It destroys you from within.

It's more obvious somehow in Thief Deadly Shadows.

Are they really that ignorant that they can't write it properly? It's not Half Life 3 and it never was supposed to be. After HL 2 they were doing the Episodes (overpriced and late, episodic content in the worst sense of the word). And the Borealis narrative was supposed to be Half Life 2: Episode Three. That explains why they are so fanatical about the series that faded into obscurity. Ignorance shared in this instance by developers and the community alike.

Very clever idea. On this note a real review of Half Life 2: Episode Two. No exaggeration characteristic of contemporary reviews for the game at the time. No hype: ​Well, it's not just about clichés. It's about how low it is to leave the game series on a cliffhanger without giving any explanations to the target audience of the future of the franchise. Who does that? Why would you do that? This is not TellTale Games. This is not The Godfather to have that luxury. It's just a glorified science fiction thriller when you look back at it. Only HL 1 and HL 2 aged well to this day unfortunately. Something that the episodes and the expansions for HL 1 did not.

How anticlimactic...

http://www.valvetime.net/threads/marc-laidlaw-releases-half-life-2-episode-threes-plot.257872/

It's good if current life situation does not permit the liberty to have blood and cursing (and the latter isn't that harsh compared to other games). But in all good faith and knowledge, TDM without these things is like Edgar Allan Poe without the grotesque and macabre.

Don't take it that seriously. Somehow we haven't been nuked thus far and btw Clinton thought it was a swell idea to give them time for chilling. Totally agreed on the Google scandal and on NSA. On NSA there is at least one lawsuit in progress: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_v._NSA

Try to delete the old updater and download it again from www.thedarkmod.com

People despise Peter Molyneux for what came out of the Fable series, but the story and hardships behind Black & White in a 3 page article intrigued me. Page 3 is the best because they explain how they solved the endless avalanche of bug fixing, compiling and release: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131476/postmortem_lionhead_studios_.php?page=1

Having AI animations for climbing means third person animations for NPC's if I read it correctly? Atm there's still a pressing concern regarding http://bugs.thedarkmod.com/view.php?id=3979

Whoever is aware and keeping up with the discussions here will be glad if it was possible at all to have multiple threading opened in TDM. Then we can knock ourselves out and proceed to make 2.06 closer. Because these updates take ages as it is.

I already hosted a file on Google Drive a replace of the pk4 file with working words but they are just placeholder plain latin words without umlauts. I just wanted to see if the issue is acknowledged for 2.06. You can find it here: http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/18828-romanian-gui-issue-request-for-bugtracker/ The deeper long term issue is connected to missing fonts in Unicode that the game can't read. This concerns diacritics such as for example ă,î, â. More details here: http://bugs.thedarkmod.com/view.php?id=2778 http://bugs.thedarkmod.com/view.php?id=2779 http://bugs.thedarkmod.com/view.php?id=1610

In this case it's really kind of a bummer.

Exciting times we live it seems. Don't know how prepared the current version of the game is for any changes like that.

Yep, that last thing nails it. The time factor allows for better time planning with The Dark Mod as one such example. But small correction, Witcher 3 can be completed in under 50 hours if you only do main story stuff and don't divert your attention to sidewalks and whatnot. In that situation it's good to have a game that children or lesser peers would be interested in too. Something that can be played together or maybe even coop in a non-competitive manner. I heard Brothers : A Tale of Two Sons was good at this. That way playing games won't be an alienating experience from friends & family but rather a shared memory which you can cherish later on together. Strategy games are good at this too. Age of Empires 2 and 3.

On the whole whistleblowing trend it seems many of these people have some sort of goal to give an impression, to appease others to see things in their esoterical way that nobody else could. Then to retreat to a hermit, alienated, self-lamenting lifestyle and finding justifications for how things came out to be as such. But, whether they lead and create this public opinion honestly, or out of ignorance or even deliberately is not a motive for blaming them. That isn't my intention. Their contradictions and lack of proposals are their matter to worry. But seems that Stanislaw Lem in Solaris had in mind for people, fallible creatures that we are this condition as well. It's a long one but it's really worth it: “We take off into the cosmos, ready for anything: for solitude, for hardship, for exhaustion, death. Modesty forbids us to say so, but there are times when we think pretty well of ourselves. And yet, if we examine it more closely, our enthusiasm turns out to be all a sham. We don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers of the cosmos. For us, such and such a planet is as arid as the Sahara, another as frozen as the North Pole, yet another as lush as the Amazon basin. We are humanitarian and chivalrous; we don't want to enslave other races, we simply want to bequeath them our values and take over their heritage in exchange. We think of ourselves as the Knights of the Holy Contact. This is another lie. We are only seeking Man. We have no need of other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is. We are searching for an ideal image of our own world: we go in quest of a planet, a civilization superior to our own but developed on the basis of a prototype of our primeval past. At the same time, there is something inside us which we don't like to face up to, from which we try to protect ourselves, but which nevertheless remains, since we don't leave Earth in a state of primal innocence. We arrive here as we are in reality, and when the page is turned and that reality is revealed to us - that part of our reality which we would prefer to pass over in silence - then we don't like it anymore.” ​I'm just saying we need to see how our lives fit in all of this larger picture. This isn't some abstract thing. We live in all of it and we need a healthy balance. Things don't happen instantly in life. It all drags on in these bigger strategic decisions and turnarounds throughout which we bear and keep it together to keep going.

It's a simplification that does not bear to comparison to real fighters who die for what they believe. Countless of journalists and whistleblowers from Russia, Azerbaijan never left to seek asylum and were killed under suspicious circumstances. And it's not like they are going to be killed if they stand before an official investigation. They are just whining how unfair life is. To me Snowden, Assange just looked for benefits rather than truly uncovering the wrongs ​with good fatith​. Instead they ran to authoritarian/dictatorship regimes without even testifying in court. And in court is where the real battle lies.​ Not a melodramatic soap opera on Skype. By staying in Russia Snowden plays for The Empire of Evil. What credibility that has versus USA which has guarantees for whistleblowers? Ecuador is a little different but essentially Assange just keeps going to reinvent the bicycle. If Snowden had balls he'd be against the Russian Duma banning VPN on internet right now. In front of the whole world taking Russia to the Stone Age. Is that whistleblowing? No. This is a new dimension of hypocrisy friend. Lots of people died for freedom an peace in Europe and it will not be sold for a convenient and nihilistic version of morality given by Russian news outlets for some whiners who can't stand for what they said. There's a responsibility that a lot of people assumed for themselves and for which they died. What I can't stand is not what Snowden/Assange said. Everyone knows what the NSA does at least since the 90's and USSR has a long history of "exposing" the "decaying capitalist west". This time though though Russia flipped all mass media switches specifically antagonizing the US, as if Russia has an alternative. On the objective side of abuses by the gov. this will probably cease when the dangers posed by Russia and other dictatorships wane a little. But there's still always Congress and the Supreme Court to have a say when things go beyond clear red lines. NOT when services like these in Russia even stop pretending to protect the public interest but rather their own wealth and power. That's the difference. Occasionally countries act beyond the UN Security Council veto of China or Russia to impose what is the right thing to do, because we can't afford to play by their rules.

Who can say his evidence is the ultimate truth? The link is still around so I guess this info isn't anything top secret. Maybe this story is just a whitewash of Russia to justify Edward Snowden who was by this logic also an inside leaker who in the end pledges his allegiance to The Emperor and turned to the Dark Side. If we want to be Jedi we need to be above this. On the Russia story, for utmost credibility, the investigation must not only concern those close to Trump who may or may not have influenced the election but in a separate investigation to see also into Clinton family's flirting with Russia beforehand. But good luck to him to them on that I guess. ​Why I say that? With all due respect to you, a person that calls on Merkel to sacrifice Ukraine to Russia and doubts that Russians are imperialistic bully savages is not to be trusted: https://www.thenation.com/article/state-department-says-russia-invading-ukraine-should-we-believe-them/ ​Do you know that if it not for the NSA and intercepting conversations and correspondence, Germany with its imperialistc national sentiment of inferiority would gladly take any moment to bash the US and flirt with Russia even if means making half of East Europe burn to ashes and make another Yugoslavia here? If it were not for the US leaking at will any arrogance that German influenced policies of the EU, every last one conflict where Russia came in force would have been won by now. It frustrates me immensely but these moves must be done by the US for the greater good of the world. ​One such clear case is when during a crucial moment of the Maidan revolution, the EU High Representative doubted to support Ukrainian protesters when their country was raped in the 21's century. At that point the US just rolls in and gives a fuck you to Germany. Yes Catherine Ashton is British, but the EU is still unfortunately largely influenced by and in the interests of Germany: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/05/ukraine-bugged-call-catherine-ashton-urmas-paet You don't exactly see the EU Commission for Competition to slam Nord Stream 2 or anything. They are glad to feed their financial interest as Germany always had. In WW1 financing Bolsheviks, in WW2 raping Europe and marching like best buddies in 1939. And now economically, in a more subtle form but all over again. ​For these reasons, the way the NSA and other gov. agencies operate in the US may be in some ways leaving space for abuse or misconduct such as during the Red Scare, but in no way any of that means a systematic abuse or a progression of America to authoritarianism. If anything, right now the US probably stands between Dirty Harry's enforcer method and American History X's understanding of its limits on the borderline of fascism and self-destruction. But only when such criticism is done in good faith. It shall be disregarded when done to discredit or destroy the values to divide and conquer America, Europe and the civilized world as a whole.

Wrote it for you in the YouTube comments for longevity of the info.

Maybe but I mean, again bringing the example of TellTale - their games don't really need that graphical pornography because their products have strong style which won't require any such thing. It simply works well as it is. Just like Team Fortress, which is why Thief aged very well or why Black & White 2 still is IMHO one of the better looking strategy games, even if it's actually older than 10 years. But it really looks almost on par with Ubisoft's From Dust at first glance unless you get really down to nitpick every pixel. But that's not how you spend most of your time playing a game like that anyway.

You're not alone. QTE's work well with all TellTale games. They were also cleverly implemented in Witcher 2 and 3 for dialogue on a time limit, all geared to add tension.

The best vote given is with our money in this world. This too shall pass.

On this line of thought, Tels had plans to build a roguelike algorithm of level generated mazes in TDM. Too bad he went AWOL before it went to the light. On the gameplay and cliché note, I'm only expecting new things from the new Pathologic by Ice Pick Lodge and maybe, one day something more on LA Noire or something with that face scan technology. There's also TellTale Games and their wonderful Sam & Max, their The Wolf Among Us. Someone argues that adventure games, point & clicks aren't even games at all. My answer is just let's wait and see. Who knows what innovation lies around the corner? I definitely can't fault anyone among those mentioned for conveyer belting standard Bethesda RPG's with the same engine every year. Err once - shame on the ads, err twice - shame on the buyer. What Sotha mentioned of The Long Dark is perfectly valid for Don't Starve and other roguelikes. If you need inspiration there's also always Fallen London which didn't cease to amaze me how it always found a good audience with such a simple, comprehensible RPG text game that absolutely doesn't feel like it disrespects the player or his time. A refreshing return for me each time I come back with quality writing and narrative. The devs behind it also made Sunless Sea and will soon make Sunless Skies. All within the same universe. Just as every bit as gothic as Thief and The Dark Mod on that note. In the end, for those guys, it was enough to surpass the beta of Echo Bazaar and pass onwards beyond the word count of War and Peace by Tolstoy.