Idle chattery - potentially NSFW - Retro Remakes

The Lego Movie

RobF — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:24:40 -0400

Yup, that'll do.

The Bargain Thread. With bargains. In it. It's a thread.

RobF — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 07:40:03 -0500

Round 357 in time for the Xmas Steam Sales etc...

The Modern Games Thread: Part Nine.

RobF — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 08:22:32 -0500

Here we go again..

The Valve thread

RobF — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:50:06 -0400

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1818305

Happy potato day? Whut? Too much potato. I am confused.

Also, potato: http://savygamer.co.uk/2010/12/18/steam-christmas-sale-leak/

I was trying to find something funny to look up on youtube

rOcko — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:51:41 -0500

And I remember this:

A thousand thanks Bob :]

For good measure:

The Brand Spanking New Who Thread

RobF — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 05:50:41 -0500

New thread! New TARDIS!

The NEW random and probably NSFW thread of random things...

RobF — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 05:47:44 -0500

...picking up where we left off there.

GameMaker - you've come a long way, maybe?

9572AD — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 14:13:18 -0400

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That's a far cry from the $8 registration I recall.
Aside from compiling for iOS and Android (and HTML5 I suppose though I still find that useless), is it different/better enough to warrant such expense?

Dumb Enlightenment!

rOcko — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:43:58 -0400

I just realized that sample I used in Van Damnation at the start of each level was from Steely Dans' "Bodhisattva"

Trivia, I didn't realize it because it was from a random sample collection.

The Things We've Watched thread

NinaraPoll — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 23:29:50 -0400

I can't find the other thread about movies, so I thought I'd start a new one about both movies and TV.

I'm currently fascinated by Hannibal. I've not actually read any of the Hannibal Lecter novels or seen any of the movie adaptations (shocking, I know), so I have no idea how faithful this is to any of the characters or the plot of Red Dragon, of which this is supposedly an adaptation, or how to compares to any other versions. That said... I am loving this series. It's basically *SPOILERS*....

A main character who can empathise with anyone, including the most messed-up of the messed-up, who uses his talents to help the FBI track serial killers, and who is not the most stable individual in the world and may finally be cracking up; HL, who is acting as his psychiatrist and helping him along the path to full serial-killerdom while causing mayhem and turning others into killers; and a slew of supporting cast that so far includes a colleague who is worried about our main character, a true crime reporter who might be a psychopath all her own, and the surviving daughter of a serial killer who has managed to fall into HL's clutches

*/SPOILERS*
I have to say, the acting in this is superb (especially Madds Mikkelson as HL -- he's doing an amazing job of portraying a psychopath trying to pass as human), the pacing good, the humor subtle and the erotic undercurrents interesting. (I'm picking up hints of a possible dom-sub mechanic in how HL treats our main character) I will say my one quibble is that, at least with the first episode, it's obvious where NBC forced some changes -- some small things about pacing and shot layout make me think NBC ordered some reshoots to try to make it more network-like, and some of the story makes me think NBC tried to turn it more into a Law and Order style procedural (without too much success) -- there's even a brief explanation first episode about how Our Main Character can make inexplicable leaps in logic when figuring out killers! (Part of me is wondering how this series would have played out had it been on AMC, FX, HBO, or Showtime.) Those tiny irritants aside, I'm finding the show to be a wonderful exploration of what makes a psychopath a psychopath, and if it is possible to fight evil when it's attempting to corrupt an already unstable mind. Honestly, go find a torrent of it ;) Then again, it turns out I'm a bit of a Bryan Fuller fan (he wrote the series, and thanks to his needing to cheer himself up after handling the subject matter, he wrote the Pushing Daisies movie script that might wind up being Kickstarted), and I have an unhealthy obsession with the fields of psychology and psychiatry, so I'm pretty biased :)

NP

Books about British computerindustry in the 80's?

Sokurah — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:57:14 -0400

We should all know of The Ultimate History of Video Games which is a great book that chronicles the emerging arcade gaming culture in detail, but I'd like to know if there are any books, that go into as much detail, about the British computer industry and all the many microcomputers produced there in the 80's.
Are there any?

Hi...

VDichotomy — Sun, 19 May 2013 12:26:22 -0400

I've not been around much.

That's because I've been in and out of hospital. Over the last few months I've developed some chronic health problems.

The doc thinks it might all be linked. I've got painful cysts on some of my organs and my breathing is difficult and painful. I've been lucky to have an amazing girlfriend who's stood by me through all this. They're close to making a diagnosis but it's either:

A death sentence, albeit a slow and agonizing one.

Or

I'll need major surgery to correct whatever has gone wrong.

Also may lose my job. And my laptop doesn't work anymore.

DESPITE all that, I want to get back into making games, and I'm really trying to be positive.

And you can fuck off thread Mk III:Off Harder

RobF — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 05:44:02 -0500

Having to open new threads can fuck off... ;)

The Dwarf Fortress thread

SmileyMan — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:57:03 -0400

OK, since I love Dwarf Fortress, and I read the dev blog every day, I thought I'd start a thread to keep the slightly less stalkerish amongst you up to speed with developments on this amazing game.

I won't be parroting the entire dev log verbatim, just popping in the odd bit here or there that just seems particularly awesome. By "awesome" I usually mean "insanely detailed bit of modelling". It's all the stuff that you can pretty much guarantee would never be in an EA title.

So to start off, here's a snippet from the latest log, which is about using soap to clean the body, which helps prevent wounds from being infected...

"Dwarf Fortress Development Log" said:
Eyelids clean the eyes so you don't have to soap them off, but if an eyelid is torn off, I think they might soap the eyes

That's gonna sting!

FINALLY

RobF — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 16:48:21 -0400

http://www.yoyogames.com/tech_blog/20

I'm all a quiver.