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(We can leave the thread for journalism corruption, but just on this...) Then the issue in academia is money flowing to the more corruptable fields like science & engineering with the big corporate grants & revolving door with staff. The humanities might not get that, but OTOH they are getting pressured to "justify their existence" financially. I could probably agree it's rife in almost any human field though, as long as there are incentives there will be corruption.
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Or then we have the "uncorruptable" critical academics, but then they're basing their work on Derrida or Marx and are so detached from reality they throw their credibility out the window. It's good to be critically detached, not so good to be derailed from reality. My position in law sometimes is something like a critical realism, but it's practically an orphan position. (You want to protect victims *and* think science works??? Wha...?)
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Who is uncorruptable anyways? I cannot convince even myself that I would be uncorruptable in every situation. And I perceive myself to be situated in the more-reliable-than-50%-of-the-general-population side in the gaussian distribution curve of corruption. Problematic, yes?
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Fun for me that you should mention Enderal, as that is next on my rotation of things to play. I started it a few years ago with some mods and self imposed rules that satisfied my hunger for sneaky, tricksy, fantasy roleplaying really well. But then I hit a difficulty spike (at the part where you take an undead infested subway to an island) and lost my taste for it. Currently I'm dipping my toes back into Skyrim first, with a bunch of difficulty/survival mods and house rules. I'd like to finish the main quest line in that, which I was only 1 or 2 quests from completing on my main save when I last set it down. Then I want to play the Forgotten City mod with that character, which I tried once before when my guy was like level 10-20 and couldn't do a lot of stuff. But right now I'm actually having more fun running around with a few new characters doing random minor quests and survival challenges with very limited resources. And just last week I finished an epic 18 month first full playthrough of The Witcher 3 and DLCs, with extensively tweaked W3EE and Lazarus mods installed. It was very hard, but damn I felt like I earned that vineyard at the end. (Plus it was something that I started with my dad during the pandemic, and in the end we completed all the 3 main questlines together.) This is what I love about PC gaming. Epic fantasy, open world, story driven, immersive survival sim is a genre that I don't think has ever existed in a single commercial product, but with a small amount of elbow grease on my part there it is for me to play.
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I love the games mentioned above. There is also the old unreal tournament 1 mod, Thievery UT. I agree with datiswous. I see modding TDM as gaming. Like creating handy game installers, puzzling new menus/interfaces, trying to build a mission and searching/smashing bugs.
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From what I've seen out of the reviews, the 7950X3D and 7900X3D should be avoided. Get a 7800X3D if you want the absolute best gaming performance, or a discounted 7900X/7950X for multi-threaded. 7950X3D reviewers are able to easily simulate the 7800X3D by disabling the CCD without 3D V-Cache.
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Did a great find today: Quake 4 mods for dummies. Now online readable. http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/5576-book-quake-4-mods-for-dummies/?p=412644
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Hey All, Those who love The Dark Mod, really should take a look at Layers of Fear. I urge you to play it as it's an amazing experience, and shear genius in the level design. If you can't buy it, I'm doing a series on it. Check it out. Here's parts 1 & 2 of about 5-6 parts. Enjoy, Neon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oR-f1KO8ho https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oVJfD658wM -
It's interesting because I recently read a thread on the Doomworld forums on people's opinions of single-segmenting maps in classic Doom/Doom 2. In other words, playing a map from start to finish without using saves - if you die, you have to replay the entire map. The general consensus was that saves are useful, however there was some merit in there being extra tension and challenge knowing that death couldn't be rewound easily by reloading a save. On the other hand (and speaking as an adult), people have to work and often have limited time for gaming. Having to replay a long map because you died can be quite off-putting and takes the joy out of a game if it happens often enough. Savegames keep the tempo going, keeps the feeling of progress going. Also someone pointed out that starting a map from scratch after a death is kinda like using saves anyway, just a single save at the beginning. You're just being tedious by denying the use of saves in this case. Dunno where I'm going with this. Trying to be diplomatic and say I can see all sides to the discussion.
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Bump maps not blending in vertex blended materials
nbohr1more replied to grodenglaive's topic in TDM Tech Support
Seems to confirm: https://bugs.thedarkmod.com/view.php?id=5718 does it happen in the latest dev build: https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/20824-public-access-to-development-versions/ -
https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton/tags <- directx 12 wrapper for dxvk https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/tags <- directx to vulkan wrappers D3D 9 to 11 eg. dxvk if you want to try it with horizon zero dawn you need to copy out dxcompiler.dll from Tools\ShaderCompiler\PC\1.0.2595\x64 and bink2w64.dll from Tools\bin and place them next to HorizonZeroDawn.exe. then copy over dxgi.dll from dxvk and d3d12.dll from vkd3d and place them next to it to. now fire up the game and let the shaders recompile -> profit.
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Wink, Wink: Spoonman has a new beta... http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/18049-betatesters-needed/?view=getnewpost
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Most people don't upgrade their CPU on the same motherboard, and don't need to. It's a good option to have, but an overrated talking point for AMD. If datiswous can save a couple hundred bucks by going with AM4, he'll have a CPU that is likely sufficient for any game for the next decade, simply based on the predicted console cycle (PS6 and new Xbox expected in 2028, followed by years of games supporting the older systems). The 5700X is a fast, mature 8-core that will be overkill for light office tasks and offer decent enough multi-threaded performance, although core counts are likely to explode by 2030-2033. Ryzen 7000 does offer a nice boost, especially from higher clock speeds. The iGPU can be helpful, allowing you to convert it into a powerful HTPC box with AV1 decode towards the end of its desktop life. Some of the aggressive deals we saw months after launch made it look much better, canceling out the higher platform cost. I think those deals are slowing down, unless you can get to a Micro Center. The 5700X could be upgraded to a 5800X3D or 5950X down the line. I would only bother to do it if I was able to get a "fished it out of the trash" tier deal, like $100 for a used 5950X. I wouldn't be surprised if the 5800X3D is more expensive than 5950X in the long run, because the big AM4 gaming boost is more coveted than the 5950X's multi-threading. Semi-pros who needed the 5950X will gladly ditch it to upgrade to 24/32-core Ryzen, because time is money.
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RPS Article on Thief genre from perspective of original TTLG dev
New Horizon replied to Shadow's topic in Off-Topic
TTLG? That's Through the Looking Glass Forums. A looking glass fan community. Has been around for a long, long time. https://www.ttlg.com/forums/ -
No it isn't bad at all, yeah I use ssd for running software, I only have a 4tb hd for mostly media files. but I'm noticing some situations where I want my pc to be a bit faster (including gaming) and thought since I upgraded these parts 10 years ago it would be a logical time to start looking for an upgrade.
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20% in my opinion are barely noticeable and not worth spending money. I would by an refurbished 3 year old workstation with warranty, sell whatever professional CAD card is in it and sell your old system and use the money for an faster GPU. Your system isn't that bad, actually. My backup gaming system is slower, but in a pinch, it still works. Did you upgrade to SSD? This was what I perceived as the most significant and cheap speed upgrade.
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Which graphics card are you going for? That's the most important component for a gaming PC. TBH, I would almost start with that, before thinking about the other components. Especially for TDM, by the way. As far as I know, it heavily relies on the GPU.
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TDM Beta Release schedule confusion and frustrations
Dragofer replied to Daft Mugi's topic in The Dark Mod
I think the reason the dev forums exist is to provide a place where the implementation of features can be discussed without getting mixed up with other debates when someone believes what the devs are doing is wrong. We often post public discussion threads for features with subjective elements like the frob outline, because community feedback is very important. But there will always be vocal defenders with strong views for or against certain features, or how exactly it should be implemented in their opinion. At some point a decision has to be made and be carried through, which is what the dev forums are for. Almost all of the threads are very technical, basically explaining and discussing recent or potential code changes with other devs. Its hard to say. Its a hobby the devs do in their spare time, so people come and go when they're in the mood and when they have the time. The team page is mostly accurate except for some relatively newer additions like myself. -
Christmas coming early this year http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/18999-im-working-on-a-vr-version-early-alpha/
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Keep it on the front page!
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I just read@motorsep Discovered that you are able to create a brush, then select it and right click "create light". Now you have a light that ha the radius of the former brush. Just read it on discord and thought it may be of use for some people in the forums here too.
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That moment you log into TDM forums and suddenly feel nostalgic...
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The Dark Mod running on an Elbrus-8SV with a Radeon RX 580: 11:30 in the video, mission start at 12:52 https://www.tomshardware.com/news/russian-made-elbrus-cpus-gaming-benchmarks-posted
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[Resolved] Allow mantling while carrying a body
Daft Mugi replied to Daft Mugi's topic in The Dark Mod
I'm glad you showed this example. When I posted my screenshot of that, I had the same thought. The player could just stack objects to get in there. That's part of "immersive" gaming (451 games), finding solutions that the level designer didn't anticipate. That's what makes these games so much fun. A really dedicated player could stack objects without the help of mantling as well. So, did the level design restrict the player from getting objects to stack and get in the vent? Probably not, right? So, mantling reduces time and effort but doesn't keep the player from going where they want most of the time. Thanks for showing this as it's important to be aware of this as we decide how mantling should work. -
WannaCry Ransomware: Latest windows patch/s - http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/18861-wannacry-ransomware-latest-windows-patchs/
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well funny thing the itx standard was pretty much dead back when i built my current setup but seems to have had a resurgence lately , truth be told i only ever had one itx model, and it was a fujitsu siemens i inherited from my sister. thing actually ran pretty well with an ssd but was a bit on the noisy side and not really a gaming machine but that was due to the bios being locked to certain gfx cards. i have a micro atx gigabyte ga-h81m-ds2 with a core i5 in my sleeping room i use for streaming, its actually pretty fast though only supports pcie 2.0 so one would assume its not ment for gaming though it actually games pretty well to :). my newly aquired gtx 980 ti will probably last me for some time yet atleast im getting around 100 fps in HZD on ultra now so woa big improvement
