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Someone suggested I start a thread for everyone to post the stuff they've been drawing to get feedback or just to show off.

So I started a thread for everyone to post the stuff they've been drawing to get feedback or just to show off.

I say it don't matter whether or not it's mapping related, but if it is, naught wrong wit' that.

So go ahead, whatcha been drawing?

That's okay, I haven't started. Mainly because I inconveniently got into drawing again, and my creative-stuff time has been sunken into that.

Given the content, nice and dark would be the way to go. Perhaps employing some Core-style tricks to make the lighting interesting without actually making too much lit up.

That's a tricky one. I suppose if they were already somewhere relatively safe, they wouldn't move, but if they knew you knew where they were and were coming after them...

I'm casting out my knowledge of actual mice here. The cat doesn't always finish the job >.>

Of course that might be difficult to code. I dunno, I guess it would depend on how it comes together.

How's about plain ol' [i]Top 5 Games[/i]? I'll leave the details of what defines "top" to the individual.

I personally would interpret "stock" to mean anything you would have in doing a fresh install of steam Half-Life, and no more.

But then, I'm not the one making the rules.

Oh, right, I forgot.

2. Photoshop Phriday- Something Awful
I believe there's more behind it, but as far as you need to be concerned, people take Photoshop and a theme, and go nuts with it. These guys come up with some incredibly funny stuff. Some of it is less or more crude than other, and a lot of references to keep anyone who likes reference-y stuff happy (all depending on the theme of the week, of course).
IMO, the stuff this year hasn't been quite as high-quality as the past few, so I recommend browsing back to 2013/2012 and checking out some from back there if you want to get hooked.

Here's a personal favourite of mine. link

I'll take one!

The photos are pretty good, too.

I am one of the least web-surfy/youtube-watchy people I know of, so this one is going to be tough on me, in making a list and commenting on others. I certainly don't have enough I could even name to make a full list...
Fuck it, I'm just going to do my top 1, whether or not it even counts.

1. VGCW- Bazza87
(The recorded Youtube alternative to Twitch: link)
Oh, jeez, where to begin... VGCW is a livestream hosted by Bazza every Tuesday at 11pm London time (gets recorded and put up on Youtube as well). It's of WWE 2K14, and to quote the wiki: "VGCW is a 'dream match' style show where the greatest characters from video games, comic books, anime, and even real life face each other in the wrestling ring." (Mostly video games.) On it's own, that's already somewhat reason enough to watch it, but it's so much better than that makes it sound. Every part of the show - the entrances, the matches themselves, the intervening plot segments, all of it - it's all pure gold. It's all wrapped together with, of all things, the chat. The chorus of "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH"s when Waluigi shows up, the mocking calls of "WHIFF" and such whenever a wrestler screws up an easy shot, the aria of confusion and amusement whenever the game does something a bit glitchy (which is quite common, only makes the matches better). Over the seasons its developed a whole history and various inside jokes that the casual observer may not get without looking into said history.

Seriously, I can't do it justice with my shitty descriptive skills. It may take a while to get into the groove of, but it is very worth watching.

^

Speaking of, I believe its new topic time. Will you introduce each one, Archie?

There will be a price, and ONE price only.

We have to pay to enter, huh? (Yeah, I know you meant "prize" )

... boring bland ... map, provided by Rimrook.

That's not a valid sentence. Rimrook and boring/bland can't used in the same context.
(I was gonna go with "YOU MEAN ANY OF RIMROOK'S MAPS HAHAHA", but if anyone took that even the slightest bit seriously... )

I'mma check this out now.

EDIT: When you say we can't change the geometry, you mean just the existing geometry, right?

Have we done a game in Creative yet? I'd like to see what kindsa stuff TWHL would create.

Kelp!

It's not even finished and already looks fantastic. Keep it going!

An expansion pack that I want to try is X-COM: Terror From The Deep. But I figure I should actually get around to finishing the original before I do that.

I don't think anyone I know says "bollocks". I only started myself recently, and I manage to catch myself offguard sometimes

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If there's one thing Serious Sam shouldn't be doing, it's actually taking itself serious.

I won't argue with this, you're completely right. I just don't think it should be let to get too unserious, either. I guess I just think that TFE struck the balance between the two the best.
Despite all my negativity, I still like TSE. I just prefer TFE. Also, scratch that BFE>TSE comment earlier. That's bollocks.

Maybe I'm just looking at it all through the wrong glasses. I'll admit I've played a lot more SS on Serious by myself than other difficulties with others. (Hence why I've got both the Metropolis King and Cathedral King achievements.)

I don't think I should pass any judgement on SS2 yet. I've not played that far into it as of yet.

Should get everyone together for a Grand Cathedral Beast Hunt or somet'.

EDIT: I just thought of another one. I know it's technically a different game, but I'd say it's built off of the base enough to call it an expansion...

Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate. Compared to Monster Hunter 3, this thing has so much more content. I mean, the standard single-player part from 3 is easily twice as long, not to mention the online multi-player half of the game (which, unlike 3, can be done in single-player), which adds probably another three more times length on top of that.
There's easily more than twice as many large monsters (about 2.5x as many, actually). Yes, some of them are reskins of others, but generally their abilities also change, enough to warrant a whole new monster.
MH3 had two "ranks" (basically halves of the game), while MH3U has another, without detracting from the other two. I mean... MH3U added a hell of a lot.

The following forum post is the personal opinion of myself. If you have not played Serious Sam: The Second Encounter and have any intention to in the future, please disregard this post, because it is worth playing.

Sorry, Strideh, but I really gotta disagree with you on the Serious Sam: TSE one. There was more variety in levels, yes, there's no denying that. I can easily see people getting sick of the Egypt theme in TFE. (Not myself, though, I liked all the levels. Except Luxor, that shit is a chore.) But what they then went and did with the levels was painful. Most of them were so... so... gimmicky. The amount of times the general level flow boiled down to "go to the left section, do a thing, then right, do the same thing, then go forwards" is painful. (And this is fresh in my memory. I've played it through a handful of times in the past, and did a quick run-through a week or two ago.) Then there's all those sections like the one where everything bounces back and forth between the room, or the cylindrical one with the outwards gravity (which turned into a washing machine in the HD version since they got rid of funky gravity :cry:). Those were mostly just painful rather than fun.
As for the weapons, mostly meh. The chainsaw is practical, yes yes, but it never struck me as as fun as the good ol' knife. Same goes for the flamethrower. The sniper rifle was good though. The Serious Bomb didn't click, for me; kinda scuttled the "fighting against a force always a little too big" feel from TFE. The powerups too.
I really liked how, if you never found the secrets in TFE, the game was actually by all appearances a perfectly (actually) serious game. The enemies looked tough and were going to kill you, and the levels were logical. Only if you found the secrets did you really get the impression that the game is not as serious as it might seem. On the other hand, TSE just let that silliness into the game itself. Hell, as far as the opening cutscene goes, it wouldn't exist if it didn't. The enemies aren't as imposing and the levels just get silly. The Citadel is case in point. I think I actually prefer BFE over TSE. (Still TFE over BFE though.)

Only a few things particularly redeem it, for me. Firstly, the first boss fight is, admittedly, pretty damn fun. Secondly, that secret with the miniature Great Pyramid level from TFE. And mostly, the Grand Cathedral is the most fun level of Serious Sam, full stop. Shit is amazing. The music from that level is the only thing I know how to play on a keyboard. (You done the Cathedral King achievement? I did. Took a fair few tries, lemme tell you >.>)

/rant

Oh boy. Not sure I can give a list for this one. There's not many games I've played where I really felt the effects of an expansion pack. Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction is probably my most played one, but I can't remember what it was like without the expansion.
Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge is probably the one I've actually felt the effects of most, because I did play it a bit before we'd got the expansion. To play it vanilla now, it's so... lacking. Yuri's Revenge was pretty well-needed.
What else... I suppose Opposing Force and Blue Shift count, but I don't really think of them that way. They just seem like official mods to me, rather than directly adding to what Half-Life brought.
If I find more, I'll share, but I think I came a few too many years late to appreciate them so.

EDIT: Each big update to Terraria has felt like an expansion to me. Compared to what it used to be, the game is several times bigger.

One week in 5 hours 11 minutes.
New topic soon?

Not older, more experienced.

Through the nether, it could be the same distance. Grab some pals and some enchanted diamond picks and you could be there in minutes.

I never did get around to building a house onto those stairs, did I...

cool > warm

Science shows? Should I recommend Look Around You?

Akira mostly defined the turning point for better and more detailed animation. Every scene in that movie is alive.

---Tetsu0

I'm seeing a connection...

I've never really enjoyed any anime. I don't know why that is, really... they just don't tend to click with me.

One exception I'm aware of is Wolf's Rain. To put it succinctly, it was fuckin' marvellous. (Except for those couple of refrain episodes... I dunno whether that's common in that type of show or not, but hey, they're easy enough to skip over.) Highly recommended.

Has no-one seen The Ricky Gervais Show, or am I just the only one who loves it?

Top 5, eh? Hmmm... But it's like choosing between my children! I love them all!
There's not a whole lot that I would say I really love. 5 might be a hard number to reach, actually, but here goes...

1. Mystery Science Theatre 3000 (MST3K)
2. The Ricky Gervais Show
3. Whose Line Is It Anyway
4. Arrested Development
5. ... I just can't think of a fifth. At least, not one that particularly deserves the spot over the others in my head. I HAVE NO FIVE
Won't list the honourable mentions.

While I didn't grow up with MST3K, I wish I had (and like to think I did anyway). The Ricky Gervais Show got introduced to me by the brother about, ooh... a year to two years ago? Brilliant stuff. Will have to check out all the other stuff they've done at some point. Whose Line, well, not as affable to it as the others, but it can be as funny, if not quite often funnier, than the others, so it gets a top spot. And Arrested Development... 'nuff said, really.

I've watched essentially no television in the last two-and-a-half years, so I've missed Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, and all the other stuff I've heard people banging on about since then. And you know what? I really don't mind. (Actually, a friend forced me to watch a handful of TWD and the first episode of GoT. It didn't help.) The sole exception is Archer, which is pretty good.

I thought Stargate Universe was widely regarded as the worst Stargate. (I can't remark much myself, other than the odd episode of SG-1, I've not really watched any of them.)

I've actually been playing some Minecraft again, though only with the Yogscast Complete Pack, what with the sheer volume of mods and stuff in general it adds. (A quick scan tells me there's about 190 different mods of varying impact in it.)

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Surely older RMF versions is an issue that won't come up THAT often. As a feature, it seems very much in the realm of want-to-have rather than need-to-have.

Presumably PB and his ilk did what is here now as a labor of love. We should all take a moment to appreciate that we're allowed to share in the result.

Thank you, to all of those who made TWHL what it was and is.
The members, from SlayerA to Zombieloffe.
And the makers, from atom to today.

because THAT attitude is great motivation for the people who be working on it

I just wish some more third-parties would bother being the slightest bit creative and make some damn games for the WiiU to bring Nincando some more popularity these days.

I mean, the Zelda/Mario/etc. series can only be surfed on for so long.

EDIT: Probably.

Steam Machines would be in a grey area there, I suppose.

Speaking of which (not necessarily in relation to E3), is there any news about those? I've not heard much since they were first announced.

I wouldn't mind if most of the games discussed at things like this didn't have a number after the title.
But they do.
So I do.

I think the system is fine. Let people edit anything and it'll just cause problems.
If for whatever reason you really need something blocked edited, the admins can help.

HEV shirt.

It will come when the time is right.

Eh, drive around here and within a quarter of an hour you'll have seen dozens of people driving those massive 4WD around the city, where they surely don't need it.

I was not okay with that post until that last sentence.

I guess if you were making something minecart-track-y and you really needed a lot more gold than you had, it might be useful.

[u][i]Look! Stuff![/u][/i]

Don't look at me, all I gots is this bit of music, thanks to VGCW.

P.S. VGCW is great.

I've been getting into this, every time I listen to it, I want to listen to it a little more.
Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden - Theme (Space Jam)

Why does Rimrook keep dying mid-post these days?