Victor was totally in control of the conversation there. Prank fail and +1/whatever to Victor.
If you really want to freak Victor out you could try giving him a hug
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If you really want to freak Victor out you could try giving him a hug
.Just a small update, here's one of the Dragons from the game. You won't get to kill this particular one in the game, you have to get it so drunk that it falls unconscious by brewing a giant bowl of bear... Gotta love Welsh folklore for the inspiration for that quest line...
This image is still the most recent release from my current project. I can't really show you much more because the current work isn't really visual - but it is happening, I only get to work on it about 6 hours a week so progress isn't stellar. It's still all very early stages.
I wanted to do a CTRA like system for all server owners, like an LFSWorld on steroids. I think the project was generally a good idea but my heart was not really in it - I need new challenges to interest me rather than rehashing old ones.
LFS isn't the first game I have modded and it may not be the last, and I have written many games myself over the years but I have never written a really big game, it's always been small things, although usually technically quite good and with good gameplay they've always been small or simple. So for me the obvious challenge that remains is something a bit... 'bigger'.
EDIT: Also Ario is really very good and that left me asking the question if it was worth doing a new super-system.
I am working on a new CTRA and it is about 60% complete.
Alas, I am just kidding :P. I'm working on writing my own game now which is nothing to do with racing cars.
Alas, I am just kidding :P. I'm working on writing my own game now which is nothing to do with racing cars.
Invisible Children do not give money to saving children. The only money they pump in to Africa - which is quite limited - goes in to funding the Ugandan army.
They claim this is because the Ugandan army is uniquely positioned to hunt Kony down.
Even though Kony isn't in Uganda, and hasn't even visited it for over half a decade.
Invisible Children - the group behind Kony 2012 - is a violence advocacy group, funding one African warlord in order to hunt down another.
There are many cases of rape and violence against civilians by the Ugandan army.
Most of their £8m/year budget however never even gets as far as Africa, it is spent on wine and dines with celebrities, film making, and "wages".
Or indeed a Palestinian Muslim living outside of Israel last week - who may or may not be inside Israel this week, on account of the massive land grab they are doing with their bulldozers.
I rate them as unpredictable because we've no idea who they will attack next from one year to the next. The country has only existed since the end of WW2 and check out this list of wars:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W ... #Wars_and_other_conflicts
I rate them as xenophobic because they hate all their neighbours, with such spurious claims as "Palestinian children smell" being a widely accepted statements in their education system up to state sponsored terrorism (sorry, they're on our side so its freedom fighting) and military actions against everyone and anyone with a towel on their head.
I don't think anyone is under the illusion that Israel is the poor victim and has no military power of it's own. Israel is an unstable xenophobic regime with significant military power in it's region, power which they all too freely use against civilians simply because they can. Of course they present themselves as the victims of terrorism, but the real terror is a bulldozer driving over your house because a neighboring government decided that it wanted your land.
I do not know how you call Iran's inspections "free". The inspectors frequently report Iran as being unhelpful and denying them access to facilities they want to look at.
Here I do for once agree with you, in general life you cannot talk negatively about Israel without somebody chirping in with the holocaust as if the holocaust somehow targeted Jews. As a member of one of the targeted "undesireable" groups myself I see this over simplification as nothing more than propaganda that has been allowed to propagate too far.
There is a free discussion taking place right now.
There are two countries I don't trust with nukes: Iran; and America.
The Iranian thing is mostly because of Israeli xonophobia, we will likely attack Iran soon. But pretty soon we may need to come to the realisation that the banking and finance we get from Israel lately has been shite, and this is the 3rd pointless war in a row, we need new banks.
The Iranian thing is mostly because of Israeli xonophobia, we will likely attack Iran soon. But pretty soon we may need to come to the realisation that the banking and finance we get from Israel lately has been shite, and this is the 3rd pointless war in a row, we need new banks.
Kony is an African warlord.
Invisible Children is a fund raising arm of the Ugandan military (an African country that Kony used to operate in last century) who are using Kony as a marketing tool to raise money so that they can replace Kony as the most vile and evil African militia outside of Sudan.
Basically, ignore it.
I like Facebook because it allows me to keep in touch with friends I wouldn't otherwise think of calling, and gets me back in touch with old friends. Facebook really is good for that.
Friends I see more regularly I rarely interact with on Facebook.
*shrug*
achievement was a synonym for a word I couldn't spell.
As a professional marketeer it saddens me that the devs distanced themselves from their user base and retreated to just making their once yearly state of the union address at Christmas about how the physics are progressing.
The previous success of LFS was born out of it's word of mouth advertising from a committed and engaged userbase.
Now the community doesn't care about LFS because the userbase is suffering from a phenomenon known as "perceived indifference". That is to say that the customers dont think the devs care about them. Perceived indifference occurs all too often in badly run businesses.
The irony is that by all accounts Victor is very engaged with the userbase, I actually get to hang out with him every year with other LFS users and talk about whatever drunk people talk about, that's practically unheard of in business - but the message isn't getting out any more because of the lack of regular interaction and communication with the userbase.
The decision to retreat from these forums is what has destroyed LFS, not the delay in the physics update.
Sometimes I just wish I could sit down with them and teach them the basics of marketing. Where is the You Tube video showing this fabled "Tyre Testing Rig" ? Why does the most recent photo anyone has seen of Scawen predate these forums?
The previous success of LFS was born out of it's word of mouth advertising from a committed and engaged userbase.
Now the community doesn't care about LFS because the userbase is suffering from a phenomenon known as "perceived indifference". That is to say that the customers dont think the devs care about them. Perceived indifference occurs all too often in badly run businesses.
The irony is that by all accounts Victor is very engaged with the userbase, I actually get to hang out with him every year with other LFS users and talk about whatever drunk people talk about, that's practically unheard of in business - but the message isn't getting out any more because of the lack of regular interaction and communication with the userbase.
The decision to retreat from these forums is what has destroyed LFS, not the delay in the physics update.
Sometimes I just wish I could sit down with them and teach them the basics of marketing. Where is the You Tube video showing this fabled "Tyre Testing Rig" ? Why does the most recent photo anyone has seen of Scawen predate these forums?
I was on 15 minutes after the OP *shrug*
Whatever. Haters will get off on hating, satisfying themselves with the release of endorphins in their brain that follows the exctatic moment they think they have achieved the ultimate climax of their achievement.
In this case, an achievement of viewing a website they hate via a proxy, which sounds like an awful lot of effort to go to to view a site one dislikes.
Who's the addict here I wonder?
Whatever. Haters will get off on hating, satisfying themselves with the release of endorphins in their brain that follows the exctatic moment they think they have achieved the ultimate climax of their achievement.
In this case, an achievement of viewing a website they hate via a proxy, which sounds like an awful lot of effort to go to to view a site one dislikes.
Who's the addict here I wonder?
So you build a environmentally friendly house and then a family with two 4x4's moves in *shrug*.
I just wanted to say that the video posted by the OP was quite shocking and is a very sad human story.
I just wanted to say that the video posted by the OP was quite shocking and is a very sad human story.
I always start a game by doing the "world" that the player walks about in first, this determines so much of how the game is structured internally. I expect to be on this phase of the build for some time until I find a technique that gives me the quality I am looking for a given project.
I know I cannot do AA graphics so I am not going to try too, but I am fairly confident I can do much better than the screenshots shown so far
I know I cannot do AA graphics so I am not going to try too, but I am fairly confident I can do much better than the screenshots shown so far
This weekend's progress is seeing a new terrain system in the works. There is quite a lot to do here, not least the re-inclusion of the Mayan buildings and the foliage which I currently have hidden whilst I work on the ground.
Blaming your shitty life on your country for not picking you up when you fell over is the very reason your country is shit.
I had a quick play with shadows earlier which didn't go well and then began work on the ground, I am using a technique that is new to me and I have not used before so it's taking me a while to put it together.
I'm out of time now, so I doubt much will change until next Sunday when I have a chance to sit down with it again. But I'm very pleased with progress, it's hard to believe this has only been a weekend.
I'm out of time now, so I doubt much will change until next Sunday when I have a chance to sit down with it again. But I'm very pleased with progress, it's hard to believe this has only been a weekend.
Hah. I think the Mayan deadline is going to expire before mine!
Keep half an eye on off topic
In the meentime I've been playing with animations. Animation Test.
hah! No I just fancied a Mayan themed raid because the style of architecture is so dramatic and unusual.
It caused me a bit of pain because Mayan architecture has so many external staircases and their idea of a staircase is so steep it was hard to discern from a sheer wall in the collision code, on top of that I want the player to be able to go inside buildings so I needed a really good collision system.
I tried all sorts, but in the end had to make my own collision system from scratch and it was a real nightmare. The first several dozen attempts/techniques either didn't work or reduced the game to a crawl with all the calculations, but I just cracked it and it's running fine now and there is room for me to optimise it later.
I could do regions but if the game ever gets popular it would need to support multiple instances of the same map which would be self defeating.
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