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5 bucks says it's part of the campaign.

Got some time to follow some more of Fidcal's AZ tutorial. I get some kind of Z-fighting at the top of the courtyard here, but it's only one layer of portal sky, meaning it can't be two brushes overlapping. What is happening here? Also, instead of the "value" of a light, I can only select a colour using the Windows colour selection dialogue. Is that normal?

I was talking on Reddit about stealth games. Someone linked The Dark Mod. Now I'm here.

If you have any specific questions, I'm right here. I've got a BA in mathematics and currently am working on my MA in mathematics/compsci.

Took me about five seconds and that was in Beta. I didn't even get a briefing!

The single or multiple storylines. What drives the "action". That's all just my ideas though. Don't take them too seriously.

The word you're looking for is "plot". Story is all those things you described: the history of the locale, the characters of the people, their interactions, etc. etc.

Why does having a character in your game use misogynistic language automatically make the entire game misogynistic? That's poppycock. There are people who talk like that, and it can be part of their personality. And seeing as the man in question does have a hate for the innkeeper, the kind of language he's using is entirely believable. You'd call a man an asshole too if he was mean to you.

Once you've seen them once you cannot unsee them. Even if you used a magnifying glass the first time.

If it's a campaign, make it carry over. You get a toooooon of loot in the first mission though, so you might wanna scale the objectives accordingly.

You keep posting updated versions!

Haven't played TDM in a while actually. Sounds like fun, so sign me up!

I like the contrast between his high level archery on one hand and his complete lack of coordination in regards to full-body movement on the other hand. If he takes a couple dancing classes he could make a career out of doing this for the movies.

This is the most terrible idea I've heard in a long time. One hallmark of social media is that the information is streaming: there's always new info, and old info is incredibly hard to find. A forum is a more permanent medium, much more suitable for storing user created content. Can we get archive.org to index the entire site?

"Remember, remember, the fifth of november..."

Yes, we do. The method by which lucid dreams have been scientifically verified (look up LaBerge's research) involves communicating from the dream to the real world via eye movements. We also have data indicating that exposing the eyes to light flashes, even through close eyelids, incorporates those flashes in the dreamworld. There's technology like the REM Dreamer to help induce lucid dreams based on this. This, effectively, gives us a system to communicate between the researcher in the sleep lab and the dreamer. This means we can give the dreamer a certain task to execute (likely from a list of several). If lucid dreams are as you experienced them, then likely (s)he won't be able to execute the task we give him. I'm not aware of any studies done on the subject though. None probably exist because most people seriously into lucid dreaming have experienced dream control.

Merry, you're a nice person and all, but that was the largest amount of poppycock I've seen collected in a single post in a long time. I realize that sounds very harsh, so below is a more constructive deconstruction of your post. 1. Subconscious/conscious is a false dichotomy. Yes, there are cognitive processes you are aware of and cognitive processes that you are not aware of. But they're still part of the same mind, and sometimes you can become aware of processes that you weren't aware of previously, e.g. stress and what causes it. 2. Saying that your "subconscious" is not capable of rational thought is hilarious. An "aha"-erlebnis is a solution to your problem arising from a cognitive process you're not aware of, I'm sure you've had one at some point. How in the world would this cognitive process not be able of logic? It would just serve up random bullshit if it weren't. 3. You are less aware when your sleeping, but that does not mean that sleep necessarily needs you to be unconscious. There exists a technique for inducing lucid dreams which is called WILD, and involves going directly from a waking state into a dream. You fall asleep without ever losing consciousness. It's quite an experience. 4. The process of dreaming is nebulous and there is still a lot of debate as to its function. Saying it's your subconscious dealing with problems too complex for your conscious mind is simply wild speculation. 5. Clearly you've never had a proper lucid dream. Most lucid dreams are vivid, very vivid. And with some practice, the amount of freedom you have and the experiences you can create are limitless. Yes, most beginners have issues with dream control and can't immediately do what they want. But that's akin to dismissing TDM just because blackjacking is a little tough in the beginning. 6. Numerous accounts of problem solving in lucid dreams exist. Also cool to note is that there've been studies on athletes showing improved performance when they practiced in their lucid dreams. 7. The technique you outlined for inducing lucid dreams seems to be the one involving habitual reality checks. This is just one way of inducing lucid dreams. The most popular technique is MILD, which relies on dream signs (a recurring dream thing like a contact lens multiplying) as a mnemonic aid (MILD stands for mnemonic induced lucid dream) to remember to question whether you're dreaming or not. Another technique which does not rely on habit formation at all is WILD (waking induced lucid dream), in which you do a sort of meditative/passive awareness-type-thing to go directly from waking into a dream. The WILD technique has many different forms, typically involving visualisation. 8. What you can or can't do in real life does have a big impact on your dreams. In a lucid dream, if you don't believe you can fly, you can't fly. Waking life gives you certain expectations, and dream control is all about adjusting those expectations when you're in the dream world to do what's impossible in real life.

Dreams are fun. A couple years ago I was really into lucid dreaming for a while. This is one hypothesis. Competing hypotheses are that dreams are used to process events and memories, or that dreams are just "junk" from the processes that occur during REM sleep. From my experience (~3 years of logging dreams), dreams closely reflect what occupies my mind, ie. what I'm thinking about day-to-day. This is roughly correlated to what happens in day-to-day life, including videogames, and anything else. The people involved in my dreams were the people on my mind, even if I hadn't seen them in a while. What I'm getting at, is that if you think about videogames a lot, you'll probably dream about 'em.

Man I really need to finish that Mathematics for 3D game programming book so I can take a look at this kind of stuff.

Finished this one tonight in a little over an hour of real time, 54 minutes ingame time. I will echo the general sentiment that the sense of scale in the manor is off. I'd explored all the rooms before going down the big staircase, to find nothing much. I was anticipating much more content that clearly wasn't there. Solid mission overall, had a lot of fun.

There's a button for expressing precisely this sentiment to be found in the bottom right hand corner of Spring's post. I wish to echo the sentiment, so I've clicked it.

Can confirm. Would also like to add that other accents in the same language can sound particularly grating.

I'm curious, what kind of mistake was made?

There's been a thread on interior ambients. Sounds right up your alley.

Yes.