lounge

[deep copper]

less syllables

[pearl elk]

maaaaaaaaaaate

[deep copper]

ha, atleast it's still easier to read

[thorny dock]

in AU they actually got Mcdonalds to change their name to Maccas because that's just what they called it anyway

now thats fighting the system man

[deep copper]

really?

that's interesting

[pearl elk]

Maccas and Hungrys

[pearl elk]

usually near the servo 😛

[deep copper]

i did hear it's called maccas, but not that they really changed the name

that's quite, powerful

of a change

[pearl elk]

its because HJ has been on the offensive so Maccas is trying to seem more Strayan

[deep copper]

ah, business competition

<@&213101288538374145>

nitro

[turbid spindle]

:no_entry_sign: Mohamed Kamal#7520 was banned.

[pearl elk]

HJ is connected to Burger King but they arnt owned by it, its like a licensing agreement

[deep copper]

allies

[pearl elk]

lol kinda, HJ actually won a lawsuit not long ago cuz BK was trying to get too many royalties

pretty much here if you need big money you have to go overseas to get help

[deep copper]

well hj won

[deep copper]

quite, heartbreaking

btw i can hear Australia after saying straya enough

[pearl elk]

its just economies of scale, we simply dont have the population

thats why I never aim to make stuff for locals only 😛

[deep copper]

well it's usually better to target international market, or design things with that in mind, economies are too, volatile as well at times

[pearl elk]

yeah I think thats what hurts AAA abit sometimes, bit too heavy focus on the NA market not enough more globally. I was actually shocked when I played BF:V of all the voices being in their probably languages rather than just english with accents

[deep copper]

i haven't played that, curious

[pearl elk]

yeah I got it cheap just as the new one was coming out, played the SP and I was like wtf this is nothing like the trailers, the voices in particular made it feel more like a war movie

I love how in The Expanse they have the Belter Creole language, how the hell has EA not seen they could get CnC and BF tied together yet tbfh

its not like Respawn didnt make something right up that alley already 😛

oh well, lets see if MS revives any IPs, not waiting on EA to wise up

[deep copper]

they probably might soon lol

if anything reached them that is

[pearl elk]

or they'll just go mobile only lol

"PC is toxic" headlines spammed all over the major rags

the headline should actually read "we didnt pay our employees enough and they found out making cheats for our games is more lucrative" hehe

[deep copper]

"life finds a way"

[zinc matrix]

Am I on it?

)))

[pearl elk]

Yup

[zinc matrix]

Nice

Am I winning?

[pearl elk]

Im not allowed to look, privacy issue

[zinc matrix]

Thinking whether or not to do some blueprint stuff

But not sure what to focus on 🤷‍♂️

[quasi mantle]

They said "If you can't beat them, join them."

So I did.

Not for gacha laden games I afraid

Like I'm sure in many cases gachas or lootboxes are entirely rolled in the server. Client side is just adding up to the suspense

[red pewter]

maybe they have a pachinko machine in the server room

[quasi mantle]

I'm sure they did.
Using real life physics to control server side RNG isn't a new thing cough ||Cloudflare's lava lamp apparatus||

Actually that could be a great evil plan for gacha rolling 😈

After all it isn't regulated in Asian countries, and Genshin Impact ran away with lootboxes on PC AND CONSOLE scot free.

EA did the same thing and they got shit for it.

I guess the key to scot free lootboxes is anime. Take notes EA.

[deep copper]

anime gacha is just gambling where you always loose mostly

so people don't mind i guess

[red pewter]

isn't this just because they need to post odds or something?

FIFA ultimate team is arguably worse than most of these console gacha games

[quasi mantle]

Same can be said with EA lootboxes

[quasi mantle]

I don't think the odds are documented across gacha games.

Some do it, but from what I've seen, it's kinda speculative

But I don't think revealing the odds really skewing the bias of double standard

[cursive crypt]

I despise games like Genshin, but I can't deny, they smooch well them money.

i.e. from profit pov, they are good.

[carmine frigate]

@quasi mantle EA add 20$ lootboxes on a 80$ game

[quasi mantle]

It's either:

1. They didn't charge 70 bucks to play at all
2. Anime

[cursive crypt]

Going in-depth analysis is not needed. I conclude with what I have said about them.

[carmine frigate]

also EA does pay to win in online shooters

thats why the massive flak

[cursive crypt]

EA, they about the same. Big corpo, dreaming big, but they need money. Some profit more than the others w/o awareness of their actions.

[deep copper]

anime = costly gacha, and everyone has just accepted it, idk what EA is doing, are they using anime too?

[quasi mantle]

EA has been ignoring Asian mobile market, where lootboxes flourish the most.

[carmine frigate]

Genshin pretty much came out of nothing and broke all records

gotta respect that

[deep copper]

yeah EA does seem more, non mobiley

[quasi mantle]

Not really
|| Honkai Impact gave them success||

[carmine frigate]

thats not AAA

[deep copper]

yeah, honkai pretty much hyped genshin up

[quasi mantle]

One can only speculate how the public hypocrisy going when EA reached Asian mobile market and make gacha games with anime

[carmine frigate]

they use the same voice recordings in all their games aswell

i laughed my ass off when i heared that

[deep copper]

ea is making anime games? seriously?

[mossy nexus]

AAA = Absolute Assholes Actually?

[carmine frigate]

Army of Angry Artists

[quasi mantle]

Keyword: speculate

I really wish it actually happen tho, just for comedic value

[mossy nexus]

EA = Expert assholes?

[quasi mantle]

atm EA is a bit too Western centric

[deep copper]

It can go either very right or very wrong, i honestly don't think there will be some inbetween to that

EA might not want to leave their western comfort zone maybe

[quasi mantle]

And EA isn't well known for churning out waifuable characters anyway

[deep copper]

yeah wasn't ea the one that made football games or whatever

they will probably need to get a seperate team for catering to the asian market

[cursive crypt]

https://tenor.com/view/bapes-gif-24791215

[quasi mantle]

UE5 EA

[deep copper]

UEA

[quasi mantle]

Should've call it Hypothermia Engine

[deep copper]

HE

[oblique cloak]

You know guys If dr disrespect says he is a AAA game dev, then everyone in this community is a AAAA game dev....

[mossy nexus]

Absolute Asshole Actually, his his case.

[oblique cloak]

oh for sure xD

[quasi mantle]

I still can't believe DrDisrespect was a mapper for AAA studio lol

Like the persona seem so stark contrast with his past self

[median wraith]

hey that was a bad game in a decents one row

[deep copper]

who?

[oblique cloak]

This was prob a PR stunt. The best this man ever did was open up the battlefield 2 editor and painted some trees and a landscape

[quasi mantle]

DrDisrespect, Guy Beahm, used to work on Sledgehammer, according to his real life tweet and COD Wiki

[deep copper]

i see i see, i have no clue who that is

[oblique cloak]

allegedly. BUT also has ex team members on the team who have access to the database to make it look like he was.

[foggy path]

I don't see why not. Plenty of people have switched things like that

The one thing that is bullshit is the world champion stuff tho lol

[median wraith]

that was know from the start like Treyarch promoted it

tbh COD levels back in the day were top tier

now are top tier in the open world sector

but no anymore on close quarters at all

and I don't feel like people cares at all anymore so

[native thunder]

How do I get the list of subreddits i have joined so I can quickly leave them in less time

[oblique cloak]

3 lanes, no effort. lots or remasters. Doors. This is all people want.

The old school games like us, NO we want something way better than this.

https://customapscod.com/map.php?id=ODgw

This was my favorite map of all time and its a custom map

lol

[knotty skiff]

UE5 NFT!??!?!?!

https://tenor.com/view/caught-in4k-meme-discord-caught-in4k-caught-you-gif-23935043

[fresh moon]

Hello chat, i was wondering where is the Unreal engine Widget channel, i need to ask for help 'cause when creating a sprint bar, the widget showed that it couldn't be casted and yes i did in fact change the color of the bar, just not sure why it isn't charging up and going down, maybe im doing something wrong... + the widget is still a circle rather than the icon it used to be

[median wraith]

wait are you calling me old??!! how dare you

[quasi mantle]

TFW it turns out you are positive having moderate ADHD

[median wraith]

Man COD4 was good but people still making maps that's sad lol

[oblique cloak]

Well, if you played those classics you had to been at least 16 when they where out and still have fond memories of them 😉

[median wraith]

I think I published one level back in the days in this web but maybe wasn't this one

[quasi mantle]

(actually it was yesterday that it was confirmed, but I'm not inclined to brought it up again as followup)

[oblique cloak]

I know. this is because no one wants to create dedicated servers, or editors any more. they want a game to exist for about 13 months, then destroy it with bad dlc and servers, and community....

[quasi mantle]

#umg

[oblique cloak]

I could go on for days about this

[median wraith]

Well there are games but the people ignore them as the overflow of the market

also they keep with old ones so this happen

[oblique cloak]

I hope microsoft takes COD into a different direction. One game every 2 - 3 years. not every year.

[median wraith]

the only level I remember where is, is the first and only one I did for L4D2

[quasi mantle]

Tbh it felt kinda good now that I know my inner enemy, so to speak

[median wraith]

not gona happen

[oblique cloak]

Oh i know 😢 they ruined bae.

[median wraith]

I mean the people this days don't consume the same content we did

[oblique cloak]

I bought COD up to remastered, have not bought a thing sense.

Yeah

[foggy path]

last one I played was the modern warfare remake/remaster/whateverit'scalled

which was pretty good fun online

[median wraith]

Last I did was the warzone

but didn't purchase one since idk when

[foggy path]

I couldn't get into the br stuff

pubg is still the style I like most :D

[median wraith]

The last one was the last released on Steam I think

[oblique cloak]

Warzone is not a battle royale. Its COD with 300 people and squads.

[foggy path]

the pseudo-milsim gameplay just works for that gamemode for me, arcadey or bulletspongey just is like meh I might as well play a regular shooty game at that point

Ohh right, Warzone was that thing

I think I played Warzone maps a few times with the MW remake, they were decent I guess but couldn't get into it that much

[oblique cloak]

now Blackout, that was the real deal.

[median wraith]

terrible lol

[oblique cloak]

you did not like it?

[median wraith]

wasn't that the BR of Black Ops 4 ?

[oblique cloak]

yeah

[foggy path]

Too bad it seems all the more PUBG-style BR's turned out to be vaporware

or did something like Super People where it's now just weird

if anything I'd like to see something perhaps even a bit more hardcore than pubg is, but it probably doesn't work for as wide audience as something like Apex or Fortnite

[oblique cloak]

just downloaded this from my xbox game replays, man i loved this br Yes i used to put faze in my name lol

[foggy path]

I never quite understood that

[oblique cloak]

1 hp FTW

[foggy path]

Like... did you think people would think you were in FaZe or something

[red pewter]

faze up!!!

[foggy path]

:D

[oblique cloak]

My nephew was 6 at the time, he always looked up to me so i told him i was in faze

[foggy path]

lol

[oblique cloak]

had to make it believable xD

haha

[quasi mantle]

Is he still a FaZe fan?

[oblique cloak]

Honestly, I have no idea. the kid keeps to himself sense covid started. it really messed some of these kids up

[deep copper]

faze shows up faze clan which is counter srrike

strike*

[median wraith]

https://youtu.be/n3y1yhERofM?t=504

Save the private ryan

[deep copper]

yup, still can't tell what faze is, but it seems it's group of gamers

[oblique cloak]

honestly

great video to watch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv0UWqQE4T0&t=2s&ab_channel=theScoreesports

[deep copper]

ESPORTS, i should've guessed

[quasi mantle]

FaZe got a lot of shit rep in recent weeks lmao

[oblique cloak]

Ugh waisted 2 hours ffs.... DAMN IT

[median wraith]

lmao

[unreal ether]

Ouch

[oblique cloak]

lol

city park assets be taking a LONNG TIME!

[unreal ether]

Shame theres no downloadmorevram website

Only downloadmoreram

[oblique cloak]

lol i got that 16gigs vram, I think its something to do with my pagefile

[median wraith]

16gb of vram ? what gpu you have

[oblique cloak]

https://www.amazon.com/XFX-Speedster-MERC319-Graphics-RX-69XTACBD9/dp/B08SVZNFWR

I guess so man it's weird...

[oblique cloak]

I have 128 gigs of that too xD

i think its the page file i got to google how to increase this

[median wraith]

I did open that level on a 970 back in the days

also 16gb of ram

[oblique cloak]

https://tenor.com/view/movie-one-eternity-later-gif-7900643

hahaha

[deep copper]

what's the standard ram and vram size rn

[oblique cloak]

Should i just add another hard drive? and make the whole entire thing a page file?

i have a 1tb sitting here

[quasi mantle]

No standard, but lower average is 8 GB of system RAM, and 2 GB of VRAM

[oblique cloak]

lmfao

I NEED ALL THE ASSETS!

i even have every epic sample

[quasi mantle]

The errors are kinda misleading, but I also think what happened is Unreal try to load all the assets on memory before actually copying

[median wraith]

okay so R6 kicked me from the game cuz spend 1min in the bathroom

then banned me for 60 min of sanction cuz I leaved the game

wtf

[quasi mantle]

NO AFK IN THE HALL

[oblique cloak]

that's modern day shooters for ya, no time out button just play no breaks! no moving! eyes on SCREEN ONLY! or

[quasi mantle]

Lowest range devs expected are around the base PS4 or Xbox One S or VCR

[oblique cloak]

https://tenor.com/view/thor-avengers-banned-discord-ban-hammer-gif-16215287

[quasi mantle]

At least MMORPG allows for AFK

[oblique cloak]

This is why i go with the gool ole, stuff something in the W key when AFK

[unreal ether]

Not my MMORPG that im making from scratch solo right now

(joke for legal reasons)

[quasi mantle]

Sheesh, I gotta renew my FF14 sub one day

I missed Endwalker on day 1 smh

[oblique cloak]

how many mb of ram is 64 gigs

oops wrong keyboard

[unreal ether]

The thing i dislike about mist mmorpgs, is you get in the game, theres like 2 million buttons, and no explanation on what any of em do

[quasi mantle]

65536 mebibytes

[oblique cloak]

thats what i said change the song to this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d35odpV3xeY

[median wraith]

I wish epic makes this multithreaded

[quasi mantle]

At least FF14 do give guide the first time around

[median wraith]

@oblique cloak It takes or will take almost the same I bet

[oblique cloak]

loading up or advanced copying? opening it take 4 minutes for me

its copying the files thats the issue

[quasi mantle]

Copying the files load all the assets in memory first

Contrast that to opening one asset, which only load referenced assets.

It's a strange peculiar logic, I know.

[median wraith]

it's opening idk just downloaded it

it takes like 2min to load 1gb

sad

[oblique cloak]

lol yeah

[median wraith]

but yeah is taking more than 5min so far

[oblique cloak]

this i do half my memorys size right?

[median wraith]

well technically used to be double of your memory

right now I set it on auto as I don't know whats the point or how gets managed

[oblique cloak]

so do 256 then?

Alright

[median wraith]

yeah makes 0 sense

[oblique cloak]

LOL

ill look online for more information about this.

[median wraith]

10min

still kinda like at the start

[oblique cloak]

all those shaders compiling

good free assets tho i love the benches

[median wraith]

isn't compiling shaders

[oblique cloak]

ahh after load you will have about 13 k shaders to compile too 😦

[median wraith]

I do remember baking the light for our client took 10min

and the baked data import took 45min

Like someday they will start making multithread things

is only baking 3d meshes data

[oblique cloak]

If you set your PC to hyper thread, unreal engine does not understand that you did it in the bios?

[median wraith]

Hyper thread, this thing don't even uses a single core

[oblique cloak]

i see that is kind of dumb

[median wraith]

also Hyperthread is from intel

this is UE4 by the way

not sure if the UE5 load is different

now the shaders compilation started

[oblique cloak]

well i mean AMD has SMT which is the same as hyper threading

[deep copper]

oh neat, it's not that high yet

[quasi mantle]

At least not until PS4 and XB1 is totally out of the picture.

I'd expect at least 2024. Maybe at most 2 years late

[oblique cloak]

There is no reason to support those consoles other than contracts.

[deep copper]

did the covid affect that in any way?

[quasi mantle]

I still have reason to make games for PS4 lol

[quasi mantle]

I don't think so. PS1 got 12 years of lifespan, PS2 got 13, PS3 around 11

[deep copper]

so it's either 10 or 14 now

12, 13 11, 14 10, 15 9 seems like a fair pattern

[quasi mantle]

Admittedly I had weird fascination with PS4 and its hardware.
I don't know what, because by number, XB1X reign supreme.

Felt like PS5 didn't fascinate me that much either

[deep copper]

hmmm, is there not much in it for you?

Referring to that single number, the PS5's GPU is roughly eight times more powerful than the PS4 and two and a half times more powerful than the PS4 Pro. Sony is able to achieve such high performance because of the PS5's 36 CUs and higher clock speed.

i haven't used any PS things so idk

[median wraith]

@oblique cloak about 15 min or more

[deep copper]

all i remember is ue5 recommended ps5 specs, hopefully I don't remember wrong

[oblique cloak]

now take the whole project other than map and advance copy out of content, lol this will be like 3+ hours

[median wraith]

Always loved this pack

[oblique cloak]

lol

[median wraith]

like 30FPS on a 3070RTX TI

[oblique cloak]

Yeah she is a beauty 🙂

[quasi mantle]

Nah, I guess not.

I don't think my sweet spot for PS4 is solely because of the stats

[median wraith]

it was kind of sarcasm*

is really bad optimized

[oblique cloak]

Well, i mean yes. but when naniting everything and making tree lods, and redoing the materials you can get 100 fps solid.

I only use for certain things like the fountain, bench, fences, baseball court, tennis court, soccer field. You can make a cool little scene in on of your maps with this.

[median wraith]

There are things I don't really get about this engine

when you render the whole foliage as unlit then you get no gain

[oblique cloak]

never even tried that

[deep copper]

it seems like as an older console, ps4 has more games rn

[median wraith]

it comes with LPV enabled

😢

[quasi mantle]

Or maybe it's because it used to have some hidden anime gems. Before Switch came out and opens up to third party devs, Japanese developers still pivots on PS4 (and arguably many of them still pivots to PS4 and PS5 to this day)

[median wraith]

there you go

[deep copper]

oh

[quasi mantle]

Now that I think about it, maybe it's because Idolmaster 🤔

[oblique cloak]

round 2 xD

lets see if paging file fixes the issue

[quasi mantle]

The mainline entries has been PS exclusive.

Which, fun fact, the very first 2007 game, which is a port of the arcade game from 2005, was Xbox 360 exclusive, until Idolmaster 2 creeping into PS3.

[oblique cloak]

You do an instant save. and delete the files out of the editor; i just did this with the 1950's NYC asset pack

[deep copper]

idolmaster Platform(s): Arcade, Xbox 360, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 3, Nintendo DS, Mobile phone, Windows, iOS, Android, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 4

[oblique cloak]

long process, well worth it, if you are a neat freak lol

[quasi mantle]

The mainline entries were Arcade (which is a modified PS2), Xbox 360, PS3, PSP/Vita, PS4, then PC.

The mobile ones were the spinoffs (and admittedly they're full of gacha)

At least the gachas were practically just for brownie points for screenshot on Twitter

[oblique cloak]

I wish it worked like this but most materials wont understand where the textures are. If only unreal engine has a system to automatically re-find those selected textures on the material. (fix up wont work)

[quasi mantle]

Though honestly I don't recall mainline entry that ended up on DS 🤔

[deep copper]

thanks for mentioning what arcade is, i was about to look that up, also "mobile phone" as in those java phones before android or what

[quasi mantle]

OH WAIT

I remember the Dearly Stars branch

That was the NDS entry

[oblique cloak]

did you remove the original files from the content dir? When you do this, it will break it 😛

[quasi mantle]

The arcade machine was Namco 246, which is a modified PS2

I should get hold of it one day and work on reverse engineering it for emulation.

[oblique cloak]

256 gig paging file, my god so much better.

[quasi mantle]

Mobile phones as in iOS and Android

[oblique cloak]

Oh yeah that could work instantly! now if you take that folder and move it to a sub directory of the content folder, nothing will apply the material unless you re add all the textures manually.

[median wraith]

Tree LODs are kind of bad have a lot of doin't even reduce a 25%

[quasi mantle]

I don't think they made the entry for Java phones, which won't be able to fit the idol appeal in those phones

[deep copper]

In the early 2000s, there were arcade games already in use that allowed players to save their progress on magnetic stripe cards so as to continue playing later.[3] In 2001,[76] Namco designer Akihiro Ishihara chose to create an arcade game that used that technology.[3] Ishihara wanted to make a game that would make players want to come back to play every day it seems to be one of the first of its kind or something?

using idols mainly, seems new for that time

[quasi mantle]

Yeah, basically your own memory card. Idolmaster concept was mainly an excuse to really make use of it in arcades.

Consider that JRPGs are not for arcades.

[deep copper]

oh, but it mentions android ios seperately as well

[quasi mantle]

<@&213101288538374145>

[quasi mantle]

I really don't recall Java entries, so it might be the old browser games thrown in.

[deep copper]

There were some members of Namco that thought it would feel awkward to play The Idolmaster in public and that it would not be well received by players. However, when the game was first tested in arcades, there were long lines of people waiting to play. As word spread and its popularity grew, rival game companies said they had wanted to be the first to create a game like The Idolmaster. haha seems like it really was a gamble , really an excuse to bring something new out

[deep copper]

yeah, or maybe someone messed up (citation needed) type issue

[quasi mantle]

Yes, and then it snowballs with recent rivals like Love Live, Bang Dream, 22/7, D4DJ, etc.

Love Live was arguably the first one outside Bandai Namco that went success, and the fanbase had some shortlived beef against each other.

[deep copper]

i think i have seen that title in some anime as well

[quasi mantle]

Though it was early to mid 2010s, and internet was wacky back then

[quasi mantle]

That's because Love Live actually got better exposure in the English speaking world.

[deep copper]

ah it's that niko niko thing

[quasi mantle]

That's the one, yeah

[deep copper]

no wonder it sounded so familiar

[quasi mantle]

Nico nico ni, anata no haato ni

I forgot the rest of it lol

I used to memorise it back before "moving faction" lmao

[deep copper]

it's not that old, 2012-13, weird they managed that with such time difference

[deep copper]

i have seen the loop meme thing so that's all i remember lol

[quasi mantle]

Speaking of meme
You might recall Idolmaster had a fair share of it, though the Cinderella Girls branch is more popular, in particular because of Elon Musk.

[deep copper]

...elon musk?

what did he do with idol master lol

[quasi mantle]

That one time Elon Musk randomly post idolmaster cinderella girls meme on Twitter

Ended up rocketing Bandai Namco's stock price because of it

[deep copper]

this?

[quasi mantle]

That's the one.

[deep copper]

4% gain in stocks

haha

nice

[quasi mantle]

I'm VERY CERTAIN Elon Musk know nothing about the franchise. Just "anime funny face lmao"

[deep copper]

most probably

he is always that way, and then a new fanbase talks about him because of that

[quasi mantle]

FWIW it's rather short lived. I think it fade out in like a couple of month or so

Elon Musk didn't continue doing it, because I'm sure in his POV it's just "haha funny anime face meme lmao"

Not to mention Elon Musk losing traction nowadays.

[deep copper]

most probably, and he wouldn't want to Associate too much with weebs i guess

[quasi mantle]

Least it was fun while it lasted.

[deep copper]

a little bit of every fandom is enough

[deep copper]

i heard reddit turned against him

not sure

[quasi mantle]

Nowadays Elon deemed to be charlatan, with failing projects like Hyperloop or Cybertruck

Heck, Cybertruck is such a PR disaster

Sceptic community doubting against him so hard, it's like a can of worm I don't want to open here.

[fleet tangle]

Cybertruck?

[deep copper]

i heard he broke his window of truck

while showing it's strong or something

[tulip orbit]

plus it was ugly as sin

[quasi mantle]

Yes, that boxy hunk of frick

[quasi mantle]

Yup, basically marking downfall of Elon right there.

It's a laughable vapourware right now

[deep copper]

yeah i don't remember anyone ever saying they like that low poly look

[quasi mantle]

Also I looked into one of those Discord Nitro Scam link, and damn, they were actually more elaborate than I thought

[deep copper]

they don't just say "give me account info"?

[quasi mantle]

Nope, at least from the one recently deleted, they used a legitimate Steam login auth, because I can't just punch in Rage Against The Machine lyrics on the text boxes

It's scary how elaborate it is.
I'm going to look deeper later with a proper VM

[oblique cloak]

The things with those, if you dont use 2auth on your accounts and you have everything linked to discord. you are FKED

[deep copper]

are you going to do nitro scams as well?

[quasi mantle]

No, I'm more interested on screwing back the phishing links

I had grown fascination with cybersecurity and playing detective with those scam stuff.

[deep copper]

i remember some yt video where the guy calls scam numbers/links deliberately, i suppose it's mostly staged but it's comedy so hey

[quasi mantle]

Scambaiters?

They are mostly legitimate tho

[deep copper]

i think so,

[deep copper]

i think i am just always too skeptical about what i see lol

[quasi mantle]

I know some scambaiters that are proactively combating against phone scammers as opposed to just wasting their times (which still better than nothing)

[deep copper]

in a way, they atleast raise awareness

which i think is the strongest defense one can have against those

[knotty skiff]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/488379367031046145/944545591839567872/273836152_118856204055636_3539920226999056037_n.mp4

[quasi mantle]

Oh hey, this looks familiar

[knotty skiff]

God is such an amazing programmer!

[quasi mantle]

First hand experience with those.

And I say first hand because I'm actually native

And yes, Jakarta is a huge floody mess

[deep copper]

atleast it's getting updates

@quasi mantle

[quasi mantle]

Yes?

[deep copper]

nitro scam

[deep copper]

makoto was interested in diagnosing those urls

[quasi mantle]

I do know that flood thing has to be Jakarta

[oblique cloak]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0_mi8ngNnM&ab_channel=EddieWoo

[quasi mantle]

Jakarta's ground is so low right now, and not to mention Islamic cult led to shitty government making the flood worse

[deep copper]

what's friday aug 28

[quasi mantle]

December 2, 2016 (or 2017), was a huge day. Basically peak moment for those Islamic cults to ruin the city

[quasi mantle]

If I recall collectly, that was photo from a raid on a gay party.

I'm not entirely sure

[foggy path]

Are they doing a rain dance or what does islamic cults have to do with flooding lol

[deep copper]

"limited time event" for sure

[deep copper]

maybe they blocked the drains

[quasi mantle]

They changed the governor into a less competent (but allegedly more Islamic), causing the drains to be less maintained

[foggy path]

figures

[quasi mantle]

Look up on the case of governor Ahok blasphemy.

[foggy path]

...I'm not quite that invested in this to be honest :D

[quasi mantle]

Tbh it was interesting to me as a native lmao

[foggy path]

Yeah probably more interesting then :D

[quasi mantle]

At least I can put in obscure Indonesian political reference

[deep copper]

Ahok, an ethnic Chinese Christian in a Muslim-majority nation, was found guilty of blasphemy

[quasi mantle]

If anything, I'm inclined to think the cult was all in for the money and position, given they were backed by political parties.

Thank fuck the cult is now permbanned, and it's about time either.

[deep copper]

Ahok’s troubles began on a campaign stop, Sept. 27, 2016, when he said people should not vote for a candidate based on religious beliefs, a criticism of the notion that Muslims cannot have a leader who is not also Muslim. A video of his remarks appeared on social media, edited to suggest Ahok was insulting the Quran, triggering violent street protests by fundamentalists

"edited video" huh

[quasi mantle]

More like "taken out of context"

It's not deepfake level of edit, just splicing

[foggy path]

Nice country

[deep copper]

it's a bit too difficult for me to understand, this article

[quasi mantle]

I'd argue it's the polar opposite with Christian fundamentalists on the west, religion wise, but basically the same thing

[foggy path]

sounds like it

[quasi mantle]

I've heard stories about them, and I thought it's indifferent from what happened here, just different faction is all there is to it.

[mossy nexus]

Religion, is there nothing sacred that it won't destroy? 😄

[oblique cloak]

Has anyone here bought 3d renders or modular packs from daz studio? I just got a 90% off coupon of selected assets, does the quality look nice from daz to ue? Should i ask in marketplace or is here fine?

[deep copper]

okay i give up, the situation is a bit too complicated for me to comprehend

[quasi mantle]

I'll try to condense it in a fictional manner through RPG.

[deep copper]

oh? that sounds interesting

[quasi mantle]

I mean, the story for the game I'm writing is partially inspired by local political things. Including the religious cult, but with crystals and dragons.

[deep copper]

that's quite clever way of story writing

"any similarities with real characters is just a coincidence and not intended"

[quasi mantle]

And because I'm a Final Fantasy fan, I made the main villain (and the boss of the cult) a hybrid of Nyi Roro Kidul and Leviathan.

The cult is also backed by the empire, planning for invasion into the kingdoms in the main island, which I named Vierglanz.

[oblique cloak]

Sounds like a lot of work ngl

NPC dialog as well?

[quasi mantle]

That included.

At the moment I'm the sole writer as well.

[oblique cloak]

Well good luck 🙂 i hope all goes well.

[quasi mantle]

I already have the grand progression planned, since two year after the incident. Been planning to satirize it in less direct way since early conceptions

[oblique cloak]

Someday if i become a successful game dev, i will create a mmorpg/br like gun gale online from sao.

that is the dream project for me.

[quasi mantle]

Well, I'm influenced by SP Final Fantasy games more

Hence my goal is still single player RPGs.

[oblique cloak]

Final Fantasy IX was the best one ever. Never beat the end boss :/ lol i can not believe this game was 4 discs. I remember them always being to scratched and the game freezing then you would try the tooth paste or toilet trick to try and fix the scratches but made them worse.

[quasi mantle]

Also the last nitro link was too lame lmao it's just seemingly non functional login form

[quasi mantle]

Those were the days, but it was an entirely different game for me.

I wasn't into Final Fantasy until 2014/2015

And my least favourite game is always Final Fantasy 2. It was grindy af

[deep copper]

that's a good prologue ngl

[quasi mantle]

The silly thing with FF2 is that there's no streamline leveling system, so to get stronger, you actually have to repeatedly use particular skill even if the circumstances don't call for it.

[deep copper]

they tried 🌠

[quasi mantle]

Thanks!

And then the protagonist is a girl getting isekai'd, but physically

[deep copper]

gotta keep it relatable yeah

[quasi mantle]

So no truck-kun cliche, but actually teleported there

[deep copper]

yeah killed and reborn is rather slow

wasn't that called transmigration or something idk

[quasi mantle]

I had the backstory where her mother passed away when Nala was 12 y.o., and it won't make sense to have the former appear in the game as a party member.

So I ended up having to come up with physically teleporting there.

[knotty skiff]

https://twitter.com/PoptartNoahh/status/1488245351752609793?t=4xgUDMX2ulvtkTabI088gg&s=19

PoptartNoahh (@PoptartNoahh)

A bit of an in-depth breakdown as we continue development
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[deep copper]

sounds good to me

[quasi mantle]

And also her childhood friend Mufasa got involved, because Nala was the cult's second attempt at cross reality transportation before giving up on the project (backed by the empire).

Also fun fact, the Lion King naming was purely coincidental. I didn't know Lion King when my buddy came up with the protagonists names, and I just went with it.

[oblique cloak]

If i never took the plastic off the top of my gpu can it cause heating issues?

[quasi mantle]

And no, ||they're not blood related||

[quasi mantle]

As on the shell? I don't think so

[deep copper]

ah i was wondering why you would pick that iconic name haha

[oblique cloak]

yeah i just took it off anyways. it looked dusty af lol

it was actually covering the heat sync in the back of it

[quasi mantle]

Yeah, it was sheer coincidence, but I went along with it, and named one of the mighty weapon "Simba"

Kinda like in Final Fantasy 8
(I was inserting the names to FF8 for brainstorming)

[deep copper]

dodged a bullet

[deep copper]

nice combination so far

[oblique cloak]

thats what it was covering

[quasi mantle]

Next fun fact, the game, which is titled Past Future, codenamed Isekai, is actually based on an older visual novel project of mine, that got cancelled because the writing was so cringey and it's unsalvageable.

The concept behind Past Future was interesting enough. But it used to be a story about time travel before I decided it's not worth the technical hurdles.

The visual novel story was a cringe triangle love story.

[deep copper]

so you decided to rewrite, good choice

[quasi mantle]

So Past Future was supposed to be in-universe story, that one of the character wrote.

Then her date decided to adapt it to a video game

[deep copper]

i am pretty sure there are worse vn out there, even though i haven't played that

[verbal junco]

there's plenty of cringe around

or maybe I'm just very cringe sensitive

[deep copper]

CErtainly

[deep copper]

wait so this thing is a game in that vn?

[quasi mantle]

Supposedly.

But I end up turning it into a separate game

[deep copper]

that's a nice hidden fact i suppose

[quasi mantle]

Well, I felt the story for the VN was beyond salvaging, and at the time I moved from Unity to Unreal, so I decided to pick up Past Future into a new game

[deep copper]

redoing is always better

ponki ponki

[quasi mantle]

Though nowadays I do have plan to completely rewrite said VN into a PS1 RPG esque game, minus the combat.

Pre rendered backgrounds and all

Once I'm done with PF that is.

[deep copper]

on that note, what platforms are you targetting?

[quasi mantle]

I'm mainly targetting PC and PS4

[verbal junco]

not ps5?

have you gotten devkits?

[quasi mantle]

No, not yet.

[verbal junco]

or is the console port still in the pipedream stages

[oblique cloak]

I like to be somewhat cringe 😉

[deep copper]

i read ps5 can run ps4 games somewhere

[quasi mantle]

I plan to have PS5 version either backwards compat or UE5 port

[quasi mantle]

Near pipedream.
If I can't get devkit sent over due to shipping/customs, I can hire other studios for the porting job.

[verbal junco]

so you got investors already and everything?

a publisher?

[quasi mantle]

No public investors yet, but I'm looking for pitching to publishers, maybe applying for EMG for hardware and full time local staff.

At the moment it's still self funded.

[verbal junco]

sounds like a huge scope for something that's self funded and potentially self published

[oblique cloak]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOujpM0nl5k&ab_channel=Zoneswishy

[median wraith]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1053920/Emergency_Water_Landing/ lol

Steam

Emergency Water Landing

Emergency Water Landing is a local multiplayer party game, where a sinking aircraft is the least of your worries. Control high powered rescue rafts, while competing against opponents to save passengers from imminent danger, launching them to their presumable safety.UPDATED 29 SEPTEMBER 2019 : Compete against new AI Rafts!Key Features: Ram passen...

Price

$3.99

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[oblique cloak]

why does this even exist....

[verbal junco]

I mean this is pretty benign when you compare it to stuff like "shower with your dad simulator"

[oblique cloak]

why is there so many sim games holy!

there is one for everything what happened to irl lol

[quasi mantle]

You tell me that I can sim as a goose?

[verbal junco]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75p4UHRIMcU

[oblique cloak]

I mean, there is ways to trick the mind your a goose irl

[quasi mantle]

HONK

[oblique cloak]

https://tenor.com/view/goose-game-goose-gif-15127106

this game watching someone else stream it is hilarious. Playing it not so much xD

[quasi mantle]

I'd see the speedrun of it. It's wild.

[verbal junco]

goose game is a gem

not only a hilarious concept but the game design is on point

[oblique cloak]

I love the mechanics the devs did a great job

[verbal junco]

it's literally hitman but you are a goose

[deep copper]

i wish i was a goose

it's so tiring to be a human

[quasi mantle]

What if you end up tiring to be a goose?

[deep copper]

atleast I won't think about being something else

[quasi mantle]

Though tbf at least geese don't have to give a shit about virtual insanities

[deep copper]

and it's over quicker

their lives

i don't know the lifespan let me just

okay it's nearly 20 years or more

guess it's not that short

[quasi mantle]

Speaking of virtual insanity, this is a banger
https://youtu.be/OeTFAiYbR9o

[deep copper]

i wish i had my headphones with me rn

[dusty hull]

Hey gurlsss

[deep copper]

[dusty hull]

I been addicted to the song “material girl” lately yall. Period !

[deep copper]

aye , nice

[dusty hull]

Yasss. What songs u listen to ?

[deep copper]

not much

you?

[dusty hull]

I listen to alll types. But lately I been into some rap

[oblique cloak]

I've been obsessed with bebe rexha. Her new stuff is amazing lol

[dusty hull]

Yasss that gorl is so beautiful

[deep copper]

is material girl a rap?

[dusty hull]

Yes its by saucy Santana @deep copper

[deep copper]

ah i see i see

[verbal junco]

I thought it was a madonna song

how times have changed

[dusty hull]

Haha

I like it

[oblique cloak]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1F5dLm8bxk&ab_channel=Aurora

this is fire.

1 hour of beauty.

[median wraith]

@foggy path was you who said the last day that didn't liked horror games ?

[foggy path]

I don't recall talking about horror games recently so probably not? I don't really play them anyway

[verbal junco]

does anyone really like horror games? 😂

[deep copper]

they are scary so no

why would anyone want to be intentionally scared

[verbal junco]

could we just collectively rename them to "suffering simulators"

[deep copper]

such masochism

[verbal junco]

we have free to play, pay to win, play to earn, and now play to suffer

and then the exclusive "play to suffer deeply"

also known as PTSD

[deep copper]

horror movies are the same

most are executed badly but they are still scary

[oblique cloak]

I tried watching the new scream movie..

I gave up after lik 20 minutes

[verbal junco]

I like horror movies, but without the jump scares

mostly because they are like action movies where the action is much more interesting

annihilation is great

everyone should watch it

[deep copper]

action movies are cool, they aren't scary and destruction is fun to watch

i love destruction

but scary, no

[verbal junco]

there's some really good horror movies out there but most are kind of meh

[deep copper]

good choice, but 20 mins is a bit too in

[deep copper]

...i don't want to know

[verbal junco]

watch "the endless" or "annihilation"

those aren't conventional horror movies

and they're easily some of my favorite movies

[oblique cloak]

TBH ever sense Pyramid head from silent hill jumped down from a roof behind me when i was like 17 years old, I will never suffer from something traumatic like that again by never touching those games lol

[deep copper]

i love you but no, if it is horror then, no, no matter what, horror is a big no 😖

[verbal junco]

is this scary

[cursive crypt]

No

[verbal junco]

is this scary

[deep copper]

depends on the next few frames, if it's just this, no

[cursive crypt]

It is all about the context.

[deep copper]

it seems rather, inspirational rn

or motivational shot

[verbal junco]

watch the endless

that's the level of spooky you see

[deep copper]

if i die from that i will come to haunt you as a ghost 😭

[verbal junco]

I accept those terms

[deep copper]

acCEpt huh

[verbal junco]

I'm cursed anyway so another ghost haunting me is no big deal

[deep copper]

..that sounds like a warm invitation

[verbal junco]

well watch the movie first

you might not get scared

at all, in fact

[deep copper]

then why is it horror

[verbal junco]

it's more unsettling than anything

like why are there 3 moons

why is that rock formation formed that way

but "unsettling movies" don't have the same ring to it

[median wraith]

I don't like horror films but games up to an extend

[verbal junco]

have you watched annihilation?

[median wraith]

It's like when you are freelancer you play a constant horror game

[verbal junco]

to me that movie is like a benchmark

[deep copper]

does it also have 50 dead snakes being harvested for summoning satan kinda thing

[median wraith]

don't think so

[verbal junco]

no but there's like a scene with a rope where you can't tell what it's tied to at the other side

very spoopy

[deep copper]

if it's just, some prehistoric civilisation ruin like disturbing, it's not that bad

[verbal junco]

watch it

it's great

western stalker

[deep copper]

honestly, you don't seem like you would get scared either..

the wolf hoodie is the proof

[verbal junco]

finns play a horror survival game every winter

[deep copper]

i recall ponk's roof shattered by snow or something

[verbal junco]

if you ever wanted to play TLD in real life, move to finland

[deep copper]

ha,

https://tenor.com/view/ghosthug-gif-7626784

[verbal junco]

https://tenor.com/view/spooky-scale-p-spoopy-gif-12419603

I sometimes wonder what kind of undead would be the best to turn into

[deep copper]

there is one inside you

skeleton

[signal citrus]

You’d think ghosts could figure out how to use discord right?

[verbal junco]

maybe if they are ghost in the machine 🤔

[deep copper]

just posses someone

[signal citrus]

Maybe if we made a light switch keyboard

Cuz they turn off lights and stuff right?

[deep copper]

oija board

[signal citrus]

I think those are fake

[deep copper]

and slow

slow moving parts are always slow

lights sound quicker, but idk

[verbal junco]

need a controller for that

do ghosts have ghost controllers

[deep copper]

maybe there's a cooldown on their bulb control skill

[verbal junco]

or are they just specator pawns

[signal citrus]

I don’t really want to see the uncharted movie anyways

[deep copper]

alex can control virtual people

[signal citrus]

I found out that there even is an uncharted film because of Fortnite adding drake to the game but the main drake is from the film who is the guy that plays spider man and doesn’t look at all like drake

The video game drake in Fortnite is a style of the movie drake

But the character isn’t categorized as from a video game

And I have started to complain about it rn

[deep copper]

i am not sure what you are talking about rn 😅

fortnite forced to make a film?

[signal citrus]

https://youtu.be/40NI2JTbOoE

[verbal junco]

yes, fortnite (the person) forced uncharted (the game) to make a nathan drake movie

[signal citrus]

Even the thumbnail of the YouTube video puts the video game characters in front of the movie actor characters

But they’re trying to sell a film yeah

[verbal junco]

wasn't there also a blonde girl at some point? what happened to her?

[signal citrus]

||not in fortnite||

||https://youtu.be/pZ4ahzhW0ho but they added Bruno mars so it’s okay||

[verbal junco]

seems highly strange not to mention this in the movie

but then again game > movie adaptations rarely fare well

[deep copper]

is the movie in profit or loss rn

[signal citrus]

I really didn’t care for uncharted based entirely on the way guns are portrayed in it to sell video games

[signal citrus]

https://screenrant.com/uncharted-movie-budget-cost-box-office-success-breakeven/

The reported production budget for Uncharted is $120 million

So it will have to make that much

[deep copper]

do you believe it can?

[signal citrus]

No idea

[verbal junco]

yeah I don't like the idea of modern "archeology" combined with guns

the tomb raider triology also went from being decent in the first game to just straight up making lara a commando by the third

[signal citrus]

I more mean the way when you shoot someone with a gun they flinch and draw no blood with no explanation

Beyond just being able to sell to younger audience

[verbal junco]

fair

I think both game series have bigger problems than that, but each to their own

it's not like people who study archeology do so at boot camp

[signal citrus]

Fortnite does the same thing but at least there is an explanation to it being that the characters are virtual and stuff

[signal citrus]

True yeah

[deep copper]

i don't think archeology alone is a fun game, without action

[verbal junco]

I disagree

if you have a good design you can make anything fun

gun based combat is a crutch in the industry

[deep copper]

i am not an archeologist so idk what the possibilities are

[verbal junco]

because people don't know how to design well for the most part

[signal citrus]

I think it’s more that they are looking at sales more than anything else

[verbal junco]

there's a really interesting game on steam where you focus on the reloading of a gun

so you shoot your bullets and you actually have to figure out how to reload your gun for realsies

which is quite cool

[deep copper]

that sounds like a gun simulator of sorts

focusing on guns so much

[verbal junco]

yeah I mean it's a simulation of the reload

so you actually understand what goes into reloading a gun

so if you can make reloading a gun interesting, I'm sure you can make actual archeology interesting

[deep copper]

i mean, i played wordle a while back

and it's just words

[verbal junco]

"wordle is fun but there is no gun combat, 0/10"

[deep copper]

so yeah, anything works. but for AAA stuff it's usually just action

i don't remember anything AAA without something, intense or cliche or overdone, actually, if it works once a lot of replicas popup 🤔

[deep copper]

"flapp bird is a decent game but it would be more fun if you could shoot it down 0/10"

"king can only move one square, atleast give him a gun"

[verbal junco]

give a character in a fighting game a gun, top tier instantly

[deep copper]

i think this is why zombie games work, it's just a weapon and a dummy ready to be killed

[zinc matrix]

Yeah, Deadshot in Injustice 2 used to be broken until they nerfed him into the ground

[deep copper]

that sounds like a gun game

[oblique cloak]

@median wraith it's still copying lol

[median wraith]

oh my god

[deep copper]

it's doing it's best okay

[oblique cloak]

Cant wait to start deving again it's more addicting than playing an actual game.

[deep copper]

if it doesn't crashes and things work as expected, yes

[deep copper]

"how to destroy child" +" ue4"

[oblique cloak]

YAY

[deep copper]

congratulations

you did it

!

your reward is watching "the endless" movie :D

[oblique cloak]

lol might as well watch movies.

10 more asset packs to go.

then i AM FREEEEEEEEEEEE

[deep copper]

a free atom doesn't sounds that good

let's bond

jk

[verbal junco]

yes asset packs are the way to make great games

every good game uses asset packs

[foggy path]

can't spell asset pack without ASS

[oblique cloak]

HEY lol

there is 9 million models of a stopsign. no need to remake it. You use your own custom texture 😛

[foggy path]

Another very original youtube comment

[cursive crypt]

For a moment, I thought it is from the MP comments.

I figured out authors can delete users comments. There was one dude who was spamming ads everywhere, went to complain once, got deleted. Only positive vibes.

They? That sounds like the good jedi won.

[oblique cloak]

As long as someone does not use prefabs. now this is something no one should do like a prefab of a house or something like that

[cursive crypt]

I'm also impressed that the MP allows procedurally generated content, saw few packs recently, they look all about the same, just different seed on the asset 🤔

Aaah, lol, okay - haha, that now makes more sense.

[verbal junco]

hypocrisy is the norm of the world, haven't you heard

[cursive crypt]

There are few dubious MP assets, but usually the Epic staff seems to pay attention when notified.

[verbal junco]

ugh

I am so bored I feel like pushing myself through control

I assume this is some sort of minecraft joke

[oblique cloak]

So bored?

i never heard of a dev being bored 🙂

[verbal junco]

crazy innit

almost as if devs are people too

and not mindless robots

[quasi mantle]

This is either some horror movie reference or mandela effect fricking me up

[verbal junco]

cats are people too

[quasi mantle]

Cats are cats lmao

But they do make up for a good pet.

At least felis catus, domesticated cats. Wild cats can go screw themselves tho

Speaking of which, did Australia won over the wild cat war?

[oblique cloak]

As a dev. We look at the world as procedural generated content. Nothing feels real anymore.

I might be turning into a theorist now.

[verbal junco]

what have you developed so far?

[quasi mantle]

I swear I'm unable to find updates on feral cat war in land down under

The peak was around 2019 or so, haven't found any updates from 2020 to 2022

Wonder if they retreat like the emu war

[verbal junco]

beat tommasi first try with kbm. the fight would be OK if it wasn't for the needless AI spawn

it's a boss in control

[median wraith]

where is that from ?

[verbal junco]

pressing the 'm' in a game that has a overview map gives you what? MISSIONS, that's right

no map for you

https://tenor.com/view/seinfeld-soupnazi-nosoup-gif-5441633

[oblique cloak]

im more of a hobbyist. i created my own pubg remake, skrim type of game, and fps. never released one of them. never thought they where good enough

I lost my entire map folder with all my renders.

so theres that

[verbal junco]

gavedev dream team, 4 people at the helm for each department and a pitch for a game idea, go

[oblique cloak]

each one has to make a sector of the map made into 100 squares.

[verbal junco]

I'd go with

sam lake for writing, warren spector for gameplay, john carmack for tech

got nobody for the 4th

[mossy nexus]

A game where you are a gull, and you have to steal peoples food before they eat it and then shit on them.

[verbal junco]

actually

that's a lie

daniel dociu for art

[oblique cloak]

this sounds like something postal 5 would be.

[mossy nexus]

David Lynch for writing.

[verbal junco]

that's a great choice

I should have seen that tbh

[mossy nexus]

or Kubrick. We can resurrect him.

[oblique cloak]

that would be awesome for a huge community project.

but very doubtful lol

[verbal junco]

make an AI watch all the kubrick films and grok him as a person in order to impersonate him

[mossy nexus]

I dislike that man, but The Shining was a creation of a masterpiece. Most people don't realise that Jack isn't the crazy one.

[verbal junco]

I love the shining

speaking of

stephen king for writing would also be a kickass choice

or you could go for a true wildcard for writing like jodorowsky

[mossy nexus]

The reason he mistreated Wendy aka Shelly Duval, was to make her very nervous and well.. crazy. She was there for a rest after a mental breakdown after all. All of the crazy stuff that happens in the film is all in her imagination 🙂

[verbal junco]

I feel like a lynchian game would be crazy enough

but I think jodorowsky could top that

[mossy nexus]

Lynchian VR game

[verbal junco]

you'd have people commit suicide after playing

more context, what do the eggs do

for real that would be sick

also I'd love to have someone like lynch take a look at a bog standard shooter

and see what they would do with the shooting mechanic

would probably end up with something like "every bullet injects you with LSD and you trip gets increasingly vivid. you don't know if your trip is good or bad and you have to find that out"

[mossy nexus]

backwards talking guy, while tripping would probably make a lot of sense 😄

[verbal junco]

nice I like that

the trip makes people who talk gibberish talk sense

[mossy nexus]

with a game you could really make the lodge into something amazing, and incarnations of Bob could be terrifying

[verbal junco]

make it a roguelike where you replay each night until you "solve" it

[mossy nexus]

I love the fact the Lynch is a sarcastic fucker, with the sequel basically saying "Fuck you fans! You wanted closure? You get it!" [so not to spoil it for anyone I didn't finish that they way I was going to] 😄

[verbal junco]

speaking of, control is getting pretty lynchian

[mossy nexus]

I remember getting a DVD from AVID in an attempt to sell me some of their hardware. The DVD was basically Lynch talking about making movies, and they had a super short one he made specially for it.

Yeah the whole Alan Wake / Control universe is very Lynchian

[verbal junco]

I think alan wake definitely has notes of stephen king

the whole new england thing is very kingish

but control does seem more lynchian

non Euclidean spaces

[mossy nexus]

Speaking of which, here is a level design question for ya CE. At the start of LD how important is lighting? 😄

[verbal junco]

define start

[mossy nexus]

This is linked to the discussion, honest.

[verbal junco]

by the time you put down the first block? zilch

[mossy nexus]

no lighting for blocking out?

[verbal junco]

is it relevant for gameplay

this is the question you should ask yourself

or you could go further and say

is it relevant for player flow

[mossy nexus]

😄 The reason I asked was I know the lead lighting chap that did Alan Wake and Control.. his opinion is that it's needed 😄

[verbal junco]

well alan wake did have the whole flashlight mechanic

so maybe in those cases it matters?

[mossy nexus]

No idea personally. I can see a case for it to be made, but I would agree with you more I think.

[verbal junco]

generally light only matters for focus

you want to direct attention > use light

equally

you don't want attention > don't use light

[mossy nexus]

I guess it also depends on the size of team / size of maps / scope of game

[celest musk]

your game isn't done yet => dont use light

[mossy nexus]

fuck.. this is lounge and should be talking nonsense.. 😄

[verbal junco]

well if you have the whole flashlight mechanic it could be to incite a concept of "I don't know where the enemies are at" if the whole thing is in darkness

and you're literally discovering enemies with your flashlight

[mossy nexus]

How far along are you with Control?

[verbal junco]

that screenshot

right past that

I picked up the phone

[mossy nexus]

1st time there?

[verbal junco]

again some lynchian convo going on

yes

tommasi was a dud

also

can I say

the whole idea with you entering the building and IMMEDIATELY becoming director is hilarious

[mossy nexus]

yup

[verbal junco]

"ope well the director shot himself so I guess you are in charge, new person"

[mossy nexus]

well, you could argue that there is a story reason for that.. not a great argument but there is one

[thorny dock]

There is a reason for that but I'm over half way through the game and that hasn't become clear yet

[verbal junco]

yes if you forego the chain of command

vice prez? nah f that dude

[mossy nexus]

You know what the chain of command is? It's when I beat you with this chain until you get that I'm in command!

[verbal junco]

well the director is dead alreday

[thorny dock]

I actually bought control when it came out lol, it used DLSS 1.0 which was absolute garbage at the time, I genuinely thought because of the way that game implemented DLSS that it would NEVER take off

[verbal junco]

what pray tell

is dlss 1.0

[mossy nexus]

digital legs swinging silently?

[thorny dock]

Now it's using DLSS 2.0, 1.0 was the first run

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/nvidia-dlss-2-0-a-big-leap-in-ai-rendering/

[mossy nexus]

like AMDs Fbbrefjkser thing

[thorny dock]

Is that like an Ikea rendering feature?

[verbal junco]

I don't know

I can't imagine it making a difference

[thorny dock]

Just turn on Fbbrefjkser with Fabraksen Sync

[verbal junco]

did control take off?

[mossy nexus]

It did well enough

[verbal junco]

not enough umlaut

brösken

jäklav

[mossy nexus]

I expect to see some of Controls shit mixed into Alan Wake 2, for obvious reasons.

I might even get around to playing the 1st one

[verbal junco]

I can't recommend it

the setting is interesting

but the gameplay

[mossy nexus]

A friend really really liked it, I tried but it felt janky

so no more than 10 -15 mins or so I guess. Was thinking of giving it ago due to the OoP's etc

[worthy scarab]

I must need glasses cause I can't really tell a difference in the images.

[mossy nexus]

and the link to AW1

[oblique cloak]

What program does disney use to render there scenes? it is a in house type of engine?

[mossy nexus]

MS Paint

Oddly enough I know an artist that uses MS Paint sometimes 😄

[verbal junco]

are you telling me you can't tell the difference between pixel 3312 in the first image and the second image?

😔

[oblique cloak]

Hyperion is a streaming ray-tracer, capable of performing multi-bounce global illumination on production-scale scenes without resorting to shading caches or instancing. To achieve this, we introduced a novel two-stage ray-sorting framework. First, we sort large, potentially out-of-core ray batches to ensure coherence. Working with large batches is essential to extract coherent ray groups from complex scenes. Second, we sort ray hits for deferred shading with out-of-core textures. For each batch we achieve perfectly coherent shading with sequential texture reads, eliminating the need for a texture cache. Our approach is simple to implement and compatible with most scene traversal strategies.

sounds amazing

lol

[worthy scarab]

these? ya no I cant

[verbal junco]

I don't get why people get hard ons for all these "graphic enhancements"

literally you'll never notice them during the game if the game is good enough

[mossy nexus]

The most obvious differences are in the centre brown thing.

[oblique cloak]

I agree. if the gameplay is shit no matter how good it looks i wont bother playing it.

[mossy nexus]

Good looking shit is still shit

[oblique cloak]

loot at the lines on the bottom of the arm, you can see the fine tuning.

[mossy nexus]

I mean look at my ex....

[verbal junco]

the irony is that the animations in control are what stand out the most

they just don't work for the main character

DLSS or no

[worthy scarab]

I'll believe you I just don't see it

[oblique cloak]

It's sad that most games are only played based on what streamers say.

[verbal junco]

for a second I thought a room had morphed on me

[mossy nexus]

I found myself really enjoying control, up to a point then I just got pissed off at it

[oblique cloak]

If a streamer says it's bad, the numbers will drop 😦

[verbal junco]

then I realized I just couldn't find the exit 😄

[verbal junco]

this is my alan wake experience

[mossy nexus]

screw streamers

[verbal junco]

but also my control experience

control would be a better game if there was no gun

change my mind

[mossy nexus]

I love the mini stories from the OoP's you find and how it weaves together but a lot of the gameplay was frustratingly bad.

[mossy nexus]

No.

[median wraith]

100% more nice sale

[mossy nexus]

100% more what? cars falling?

[oblique cloak]

To bad Telltale Games is dead 😦

[mossy nexus]

No they are not, they are making The Expanse game

no

thats

[oblique cloak]

Wait what?

[mossy nexus]

Taleworlds

my bad sorry

[oblique cloak]

Telltale Games made like the small games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0Od_savz7A&ab_channel=GameSpot

[median wraith]

100% the price

originally cost 5

[mossy nexus]

Get it after the sale then 😄

[median wraith]

a lot of wild things

[oblique cloak]

About to binge watch old disney movies.

Yea i said it lol

[verbal junco]

very controversial

when you say old how old do you mean

because there's disney movies doing WW2 propaganda

I give up

what is the map key for control

I can't believe they used 'm' for missions

genuinely

https://tenor.com/view/nope-donald-trump-donaldtrump-maga-gif-7290201

I guess I'm just doomed to run around in circles

[oblique cloak]

Mans going crazy

get a beer and drink with me.

its 5 o clock somewhere.

[verbal junco]

what makes you think I haven't already been drinking

I wouldn't try control again sober

[oblique cloak]

lmfao!

[verbal junco]

it's TAB

[oblique cloak]

I could not imagine gave dev with out a few beers.

https://tenor.com/view/thats-literally-impossible-not-happening-no-way-pass-not-interested-gif-16838005

[unreal ether]

Beer gets the creative juice flowing

[oblique cloak]

So many people using the word Project "game name here"

these days..

whyy.

[verbal junco]

sounds like you should try project don't give a damn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKJ4Thgk1Js

[oblique cloak]

skipped ahead. same image blah blah cinematic music. edit Missed the part in the middle because of it lol

_<

makes millions.

first comment tho

lmfao

"Sir, this is not that kind of place."```

[timber viper]

Happy birthday

[torpid star]

happy birthday :)

[left granite]

happy birthday

[cursive crypt]

https://tenor.com/view/zombie-rip-gif-4521921

[knotty skiff]

@brisk ether hahhaahappptptptptp bbrbbbbbddayyy!‼‼‼‼‼

Do yall think Roblox is an Game Engine or a gamemode creation or soemthing

[tribal cipher]

yo i asked this in source control too

but

can you use blueprints and source control together?

if so, what are the limitations?

[fathom wadi]

you can but there are limitations. For example the basic diff functionality of the source control won't work right. But there is a diff tool for blueprints built into the editor.

[signal citrus]

It’s a closed development platform similar to unity

[quasi mantle]

Then I'm answering there.

[quasi mantle]

Except Roblox is worse than Unity.

Or Unreal Engine, or Fortnite Creative, or Core, for that matter

[knotty skiff]

https://twitter.com/PoptartNoahh/status/1488245351752609793

PoptartNoahh (@PoptartNoahh)

A bit of an in-depth breakdown as we continue development
#robloxvr #robloxdev #roblox https://t.co/f4Ixm8EoCV

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Since I've been thinking about this a lot

[verbal junco]

yes you can, treat them like assets and not like code and you'll be fine

[broken sigil]

https://tenor.com/view/happy-birthday-bday-birthday-happy-bday-blow-kiss-gif-10682566

[deep copper]

https://tenor.com/view/happy-birthday-snoopy-its-your-birthday-party-peanuts-gif-16580934

happy birthday bro!

also @left granite

[left granite]

https://c.tenor.com/Wu0TNpTWqooAAAAM/evil-laugh.gif

[quasi mantle]

I feel like an ascended technical animator for making this crap lmao

[deep copper]

really reminds me of the skeleton inside us thing

[knotty skiff]

What a wide man!

[deep copper]

probably good at bear hugs

[left granite]

@brisk ether i thought your birthdays is today 🧐

[deep copper]

timezones maybe

[deep copper]

that was sarcasm

[left granite]

cough