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Airship Ballet

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  1. How would I go about outsourcing patchwork? I thoroughly regret deciding to make caves.

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      Yo we canonin' up in this thread. We are the future. We ain't afraid to li-bo-rate and i-no-vate, Son.

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  2. Or just PM it to a group if you want to keep it hush hush, since a lot of people can view the beta threads.
  3. Keepin' it short to avoid stealing thunder, a friend of mine has been streaming some Dark Mod missions and has turned them into videos with little reviews edited onto the end. They're pretty much what you described, I'll link 'em somewhere when they go up.
  4. Sure, but not everybody needs to be a mapper, in fact it would suffer if they were, and you're the most industrious I've seen!
  5. AFAIK the definition of an LP is gameplay with commentary, though I could be wrong. I used to stream with voice, and it was popular, but your gameplay does invariably suffer if you're concentrating on talking. I never tried to be funny, rather talked about stuff in a lighthearted way, which was a formula people seemed to like. Nowadays LPs are all about shouting and giggling and making shitty jokes to incredibly young audiences, but back when I streamed (not very long after JTV started up, before popularity for streams really exploded) it was just like playing a game with a few hundred friends over. Uh, bit of a tangent. What I'm getting at is that people who do commentary for their videos will typically play the game poorly due to trying to be funny or interesting, so you have to be pretty talented to remain interesting and avoid frustrating video. It's not for everyone, certainly, and I'm perfectly happy to just watch entertaining gameplay, if it is entertaining. That gameplay was entertaining, but a bit too slow. I think that if you want a better video, you need to skim-read readables and be a bit less cautious, otherwise it's a whole lot of standing still, waiting for guards to move or laboring over a note. It might not be how you play normally, and I certainly rush around more on video than I would if I was playing alone, but again there's that balance. Be entertaining and quick about it, but not dumb and reckless. Don't mess up all the time, but also don't try to ghost it in silence. Most people don't like babble, I think is the general consensus.Some people just don't know when to shush. They'll try to fill all the silence with noise, even if it's completely meaningless nonsense. It's like 75% funny and 25% holy-shit-stop-to-breathe-dude commentary, but the 25% overrides the rest of it after a while and it all becomes annoying. It's hard to be interesting and funny but not boring and obnoxious, so it does take skill to provide successful commentary.
  6. Sign me up! Also sign up Jim: he's the best of the best in this chickenshit outfit.
  7. I downed DarkRadiant to go worry about all the stuff on my calendar, but with deadlines and public speaking out of the way I'm back to putting the "dark" in The Dark Mod!
  8. Ooooo, that should be within the year... I think.
  9. So put it in the title.
  10. "Ohhhh, those damn news outlets and their clickbait. I have no idea what keeps directing people to read their articles, like this article here for example. Read this and tell me if you can see any reason as to why they'd receive traffic."
  11. Nihilist class OP, completely negates all challenge of the game.
  12. " No monthly fees" my ass.
  13. What's that "outside" you mentioned?
  14. I think Thief was done differently, but the entertainment to be found from spelunking a dangerous environment and keeping your wits about you is universal, I'd say. Sure it would be slower and somewhat more a deal of assessing rather than reacting, but we'll see how it goes down!
  15. I honestly don't think that's an issue. Ever since Half-Life I've been in love with environmental hazard sections that are less platforming and more reacting to things that happen around you. I don't think you don't need free-moving AI if you can make a dangerous environment that keeps the player trepidatious. amidoinitrite?
  16. It's like Xen went carpenter gothic, looks great!
  17. Torilla tavataan :DDDDDDD
  18. Added some nifty iron man runs.
  19. It's intentionally cramped, and while I like it most people don't Still, I'm glad that button's caused people trouble: some things even in the original Thief disregarding FMs were evilly placed. No free lunches here~ Enjoy Chase!
  20. I'd certainly like to think so, but any actual issues anyone knows of can be brought up all the same.
  21. "...I've explained why after moaning about how thick you all are and assuming that one person asking questions means that nobody on the planet knows what I'm talking about. Such are the struggles of a genius."
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