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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/08/windows_10_activation/ Choking with laughter...
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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/05/busted_ssd_encryption/ Microsoft: "Users paid extra for an edition of Windows that supports full disk encryption, so let's just use the functionality that is already built into their disk drive and that we can't guarantee the quality of, instead of using our solution that we at least can assure has no fundamental or stupid caveats."
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Daaaaamn! It is getting hard to believe this is even the same game. Still some work to be done though, you can see that the specular maps aren't clipped when light is occluded by level geometry.
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If you're gonna do monsters, do not make them too slow. Something is not scary if I can easily run away from it. Another good thing is small monsters that move around relatively inconspicuously and then attack the player right up in his face. This is kind of like a jump scare, but not, because it is unpredictable when they will attack as opposed to a pre-placed map trigger that always fires off when you cross a certain point. The slimers in Duke Nukem 3D are a good example of this. Another good thing to do is overwhelm the player with the scary creatures, though this one won't really work in a stealth game. I'm thinking of those needle creatures from The Suffering that come out of the ground in random parts of the game, surrounding the player. There's no warning like "i should not go there" or "i can avoid this", they just start coming out of the ground in random parts of the game.
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I was actually wrong about this. It does clip the specularity. But there is an issue where lights clip through geometry, and that must have been what I saw. The easiest way to see this is to create a simple cube with a hole in the side (for a window). Now add a sun to the scene and aim it through the window. You will notice that the light is bleeding in through the corners of the wall. Might be able to stop it by tweaking the bias settings of the sun, but I've been unable to eliminate it completely.
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How to design a not-very-good Doom level. Pack fifty high-tier monsters into a small hallway where the only way to fight them is to lower a lift that brings one or two down at a time. The player is stuck slaying them until boredom sets in. Of course he can take the lift up, but then he gets ripped a new one, emerging in the middle of the pack with no room to dodge.
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I don't believe in ghosts, because, there are a lot of people who died who would love to get back at people who are still alive for one reason or another. Probably millions of them at this point, given how long humans have existed. Anyway, the fact that we don't constantly read about people being killed by ghosts strongly indicates that the bloodthirsty people who have already died are in fact powerless to interact with the living. As for aliens, I do believe they exist, but I don't believe they visit earth or that the government is hiding them from us. They're not that great at hiding things, look at all the stuff we know about today that we weren't supposed to find out about! And the idea that they could keep aliens a secret this long just seems hard to swallow.
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New 0-day only affects Windows 10 and the server variants based on that, but not Windows 7. https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-windows-zero-day-disclosed-on-twitter-again/
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Nothing that you didn't already know, but still. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/23/microsoft_windows_10_crisis/
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I rather like the genuine ambience. Lately though I've been getting the nasty beep sound when near/doing some things, and *that* really spoils the atmosphere of the game. I don't know how to switch it off, and I was expecting this topic to be about that. Anyway, if there are sounds you hate, you are of course free to pop open the pk4 files (they're just zip files) and nuke them by overwriting them with silence or something.
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Right, so Eevee is pretty radical, but one thing it cannot do is clip the specular effect. Let's say there are two objects, one in front of the other, and then a light behind the first one. Although the first object will block shadows from casting onto the second object, the specular effect passes right through. Needless to say, this looks bad.
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Things we can do to make TDM more like every other stealth game
kano replied to V-Man339's topic in The Dark Mod
Would love to see the player character be able to drop on guards and knock them out. Yes, we can drop crates on them, but dropping down on them ourselves would be more practical. -
Don't use r_shadows 0. It will break the game. Not as in cause crashing, but it will cause AI's to see you when they shouldn't, since no shadows are calculated. EDIT: setting tdm_lg_interleave to 3 will help you some. It will minimally impact gameplay, really not noticeable at all. This causes the player visibility to be calculated every third rendered frame, not every single frame.
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https://www.ghacks.net/2018/10/12/new-windows-10-version-1809-woes-no-audio-bluescreens/ I'm blue. It's true. Are you?
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Did your files get nuked; if so, do you want to save them? If so, stop using the PC immediately. The more you use it, the less likely you will be able to save them. Download a Linux distro with built in file carving tools on another computer, write it to a USB stick, boot the affected computer from that stick, and scavenge/save the files to a different drive, not the one in the computer as writing to the drive increases the chances of overwriting the deleted data. EDIT: You can use Linux programs like Photorec and Foremost to sift through the raw partition and look for files of a specific type, like documents or music. If they are deleted, they're still there until overwritten by something else. But this is about as fun as it sounds; i.e. not at all.
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Sometimes cheaper really is better. The cheaper case without the handles has better air flow!
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The Dark Mod celebrating it's 10th anniversary next year in 2019!
kano replied to mcmike1489's topic in The Dark Mod
I'm all for a contest instead of working together on one single map. A contest means there will be more missions to play and it gives the mappers more freedom as to what to design. -
https://betanews.com/2018/10/06/problematic-windows-10-october-2018-update-pulled/
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Yeah this is a goldmine if somebody steals your computer or you take it to a less than reputable person to be worked on. Shame on them for not encrypting this!
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Boo!!! Here's a scary story to get you in the Halloween mood. https://www.windowscentral.com/windows-10-october-2018-update-seems-be-deleting-users-data "Windows 10 October 2018 Update is deleting user data — here's how to protect yourself"
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Two other good choices are Startpage.com and Duckduckgo.com. Apparently Duckduckgo usage has been exploding as of late.
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PSA: Latest Linux distros like Ubuntu 18.10 contain an updated version of Mesa which significantly improves performance and compatibility with games and open drivers like Intel and AMD.
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Tried this with tdm?
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Yep, it seems to run faster on my old laptop with Radeon 6700 graphics. But I don't have stats of the performance before the upgrade to compare it to. Also, games like Gzdoom used to suffer from graphical glitches on that hardware, and they're gone.
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Reports are that they are scrapping this in the next version due to the bad publicity it has justifiably earned them. But, it's still Google, and they're still hostile toward your privacy (just like every company today). Here's another good read. https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2017/11/30/google-sued-over-iphone-safari-workaround-data-snooping/
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I have never used WD el-cheapo & nasty nas boxes for various reasons, so this dosen't surprise.
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Sworn off WD myself. Why? They started building the SATA-to USB bridge into the hard drive itself, so if it fails, you're screwed. Sometimes those bridges do fail, not the actual hard drive. And with a proper one, you can just rip the drive out and hook it straight to SATA. But they really want people to use their $3000 data extraction service.
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Here's an example of what I'm talking about. https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/dont-buy-the-wd-my-passport-usb-drive.2366512/
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Woken up at 12:30 AM by the sound of a jack hammer outside. Who needs to sleep anyway?
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if you live in a residentials area, then this would be illeagal.
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I suppose it might be allowed in certain emergencies, such as if some houses have lost power and water and they need to dig a hole to fix the problem.
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Yeah I called the cops and they said not only that someone else was on the line complaining about it, but it was a genuine emergency with the gas lines, so there was nothing they could do about it.
