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jamie

#7061 July 31, 2010, 02:19:38 pm

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sarah palin has been saying some things on twitter:

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Ground Zero Mosque supporters: doesn't it stab you in the heart, as it does ours throughout the heartland? Peaceful Muslims, pls refudiate

the tweet was deleted i guess when she realised refudiate isn't a word, and she covered her tracks with

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Refudiate," "misunderestimate," "wee-wee'd up." English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it

that's a good idea. i'm celebrating right now. nice call back on misunderestimate.

Last Edit: July 31, 2010, 02:21:49 pm by jamie

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dada

#7062 July 31, 2010, 03:49:18 pm

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Quote from: jamie on July 31, 2010, 02:19:38 pm

sarah palin has been saying some things on twitter:

the tweet was deleted i guess when she realised refudiate isn't a word, and she covered her tracks with

that's a good idea. i'm celebrating right now. nice call back on misunderestimate.

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crone_lover720

#7063 July 31, 2010, 04:31:56 pm

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a lady came into a candy shop in the city and asked for 'nigger babies' like one would ask for skittles or jelly bellies. I'm not sure if nigger babies were ever an official name or if people just called them that, but according to what my mom told me when I was a kid they were sugar-coated jellies shapes like big sour patch kids and coming in flavors like maple, chocolate and licorice. the tan maple ones weren't called nigger babies but I forget what they were called. she said she never really thought anything of it at the time but christ that was like 1960 not 2010

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back in the Playstation days they weren't really going for realism more for telling the player THIS IS A TREE. concentrating on the features of trees instead of this weird idealism of what the trees would look like in this fantasy world

as an expert on trees and other flora I can tell you most trees in modern games are total bullshit.

shara paleen

Last Edit: July 31, 2010, 04:36:22 pm by earlchip

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Carrion Crow

#7064 July 31, 2010, 04:34:02 pm

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I have just been inhaling good old solder for the past hour. Just built myself an array of infrared LEDs that should serve to illuminate things up to a range of 5m. Gonna see if it turns my phone into NVGs

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Ragnar

#7065 July 31, 2010, 05:11:57 pm

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Quote from: earlchip on July 31, 2010, 04:31:56 pm

as an expert on trees and other flora I can tell you most trees in modern games are total bullshit.

shara paleen

I have no idea how I conveyed what I was trying to say sorry if it sounded stupid like 'how dare games try to be realistic now that they have the processing power to do so'. I meant like with less graphics capabilities they tried to at least get it across what the player was looking at, now it's easy to make detailed objects but everything has this unreal texture to it. Like everything in Far Cry looked like plastic. Not entirely sure but I know at least the people looked like G.I. Joes

Edit: How do I explain this when's the last time a game made you feel ICKY like even if they invent the most weird grotesque creature in a new Resident Evil game I don't think it will make you feel as icky as the spiders in the first one. Isn't that its own kind of realism

Last Edit: July 31, 2010, 05:21:06 pm by Ragnar

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Rajew

#7066 July 31, 2010, 06:09:10 pm

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Typed up a 48 page, 24,000 word synopsis of Contrast Wing, the idea I have for a fighting game. Finally managed to get it printed out and sealed in an envelope as a sort of 'poor man's copyright'. Once the post office timestamps it and whatnot, we should be pretty good.

[a few comments congratulating him]

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only 48 pages? my uber secret concept document just passed 160 pages

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And yep, [NAME], only 48 pages, but 95% of that is just story. Gameplay could easily take up another 50 if I went into super detail with it.

This is true game design. 48 pages of story for a fighting game. Everyone take note of this, Contrast Wing is gonna be the next big thing! I... I only wish I could have been involved in it...

edit: let me mention here that the long "game design doc" I've ever written was about 24 pages long, and it was for a grand strategy kinda(think europa universalis or hearts of iron) game based on ww1(essentially) and included rules for controlling individual cities in territories, moving through something like 20 different types of terrain for each type of unit, combat details, a roadmap, and a synopsis of the history of the world it took place in and how the various countries related to eachother and a lot of other stuff. Maybe I just use the wrong font?

edit2: on second though I used almost no whitespace, so maybe these guys are just mashing the enter key between each paragraph to keep it nice and readable?

edit3: just opened the file and it's actually 39 pages long. 24 pages was my unfinished zelda clone idea (it involved cowboys) but still 39 pages to fully develop a detailed simulation of a real world scenario compared to 48 pages for the story of a fighting game.

edit4: i'm just going to use ragnar's posts as design documents from now on

Last Edit: July 31, 2010, 06:26:49 pm by Rajew

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crone_lover720

#7067 July 31, 2010, 07:39:07 pm

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Quote from: Ragnar on July 31, 2010, 05:11:57 pm

I have no idea how I conveyed what I was trying to say sorry if it sounded stupid like 'how dare games try to be realistic now that they have the processing power to do so'. I meant like with less graphics capabilities they tried to at least get it across what the player was looking at, now it's easy to make detailed objects but everything has this unreal texture to it. Like everything in Far Cry looked like plastic. Not entirely sure but I know at least the people looked like G.I. Joes

Edit: How do I explain this when's the last time a game made you feel ICKY like even if they invent the most weird grotesque creature in a new Resident Evil game I don't think it will make you feel as icky as the spiders in the first one. Isn't that its own kind of realism

seriously studying trees is part of my major, and not that it BOTHERS ME but usually trees in games still aren't realistic and still are representational. we've reached at a point in 3d rendering where things can be 'realistic' without actually being realistic. excluding tropical trees, everyone wants realistic tropical trees nowadays

this doesn't have much to do with what you're talking about, I'm just saying these days you can represent something in a game without really having to create a way ot represent it. then again I don't play many new games or watch their trailers or look at their screens so this might be outdated

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Mince Wobley

#7068 July 31, 2010, 07:44:32 pm

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I think you have a point earl. It's just that no one pays attention to the trees. If it was a tree simulation game for tree spotting individuals, the trees would be realistic.

Play Raimond Ex (if you haven't already)

I'll not TAKE ANYTHING you write like this seriously because it looks dumb

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crone_lover720

#7069 July 31, 2010, 08:04:44 pm

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I'll make you eat those words mince. no I know, they're fine like that depending on how they're used. like in HL2 and stuff like that they're ok, but in nwn2 they look like garbage and you just want them to fade away and stop blocking your view

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Kaworu

#7070 July 31, 2010, 08:51:08 pm

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round parents house, good chance to use up their internet and download some random psyche musics. Heavy Friends - Noise Head Music is really great, very les rallizes denudes vibe going on. I wish I could get my gitar to scream like that

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the_bub_from_the_pit

#7071 July 31, 2010, 09:22:43 pm

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picking wild mushrooms on the Карпати) mountains,

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Kaworu

#7072 July 31, 2010, 10:18:22 pm

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MUSHROOMS

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Mince Wobley

#7073 August 01, 2010, 01:42:42 am

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Kaworu, you have to make something for the new troubadours. It's about political issues.

Play Raimond Ex (if you haven't already)

I'll not TAKE ANYTHING you write like this seriously because it looks dumb

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Ragnar

#7074 August 01, 2010, 02:37:12 am

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Quote from: Mince Wobley on August 01, 2010, 01:42:42 am

Kaworu, you have to make something for the new troubadours. It's about political issues.

I just realized I could about drugs but I should choose something less obvious

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Terrorantula

#7075 August 01, 2010, 02:51:20 am

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Reading the last few posts has totally derailed my train of thought.

Everyone has the right to be himself; wise men know how to,when, and whether to navigate the boundary between their rights and those of others when they collide.