Everything posted by samm
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The Music Thread
Fields Of The Nephilim - For Her Light Fitting the winter mood...
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The Witcher Enhanced Edition is out!!!
The patch for people who already own a registered copy is out as well. American players need to install another patch who restores blood effects. I recommend waiting some weeks for the download because for some reasons, the put the file (gigabytes in size) as a whole for download instead of seeding a torrent. Very short sighted if you ask me
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Laptop Time
My guess: Yes. 3 years is a hell of a lot of time for graphics cards, especially lower mid-range card such as 9600m GT (which isn't derived from the desktop 9600 gt, but rather a shrunk version of the 8600m afaik.)
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The Music Thread
Rotting Christ - Threnody (click me for youtube) Nice
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The Music Thread
Isobel Campbell - Willow's song Hm, still prefer Faith and the Muse's version - and the film of course (Wickerman - not the crappy pseudo-remake. It was Mistress on the BI forums that I haven't seen for ages who recommended me the awesome movie )
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How did you get into the gaming industry?
Hehe, sorry, couldn't keep my trap shut I can totally see the uncomfortable feeling that someone has when having to use C when he grew up with a slicker language. So I don't think there's a "best" language to start, and see your arguments pro Python. Actually, the people in computer science at the university I was before thought it a good idea of first using some form of Pascal and later Eiffel, which are just too far from usage nowadays afaik.
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How did you get into the gaming industry?
Just a little clarification: C isn't object oriented at all. Also, I think it is a good language to start learning because it is rather low level with pointers and having to manage memory etc. In my opinion this helps to become more conscious about what programming actually means and how to be careful with your resources. Also, it will be a revelation to switch language from C to something more modern and have objects and flexibility and a lot of datatypes etc. Python is nice and powerful, but it is at least one layer above C++, literally.
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EA Sticking With SecuROM
And that comes from the same person who advices to burn MP3s and compress them again... It may not be totally perfect, but you can't expect the pioneers to be as progressive as Reznor (who offers downloads above CD quality). Youtube sounds f*** bad compared to my old 128kbit MP3s, even WMAs.
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First to have a crush on you
*g* @ checkpoint I never noticed it, just like TrueNeutral. At kindergarten, elementary school and even later, some evidently shy girls sent their friends to tell me, and while some of that may have been a hoax, I talked to some girls to get a confirmation and stated that I don't care for cowardly girls that can't tell me something like this directly. How stupid I was. Anyway, I still don't notice when someone has a crush on me, as evidenced by my one and only love (who fortunately isn't shy at all) and lately by a random guy. Later, I was surprised how reasonable and natural I reacted to his advances - he didn't interest me, didn't know him anyway, and told him that in a nice yet clear way. I wouldn't have thought that of myself Anyway, not noticing other's crushes while feeling too insecure about my own makes for pretty funny memories in retrospect
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EA Sticking With SecuROM
They do use SecuRom already, you know?
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The Music Thread
... and some other guys playing ukulele as well "Tribute to Beirut" Psyche - Land of broken promises
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The Music Thread
Oh, I found the song I meant. Beirut - Closing Song Walsingham, Setting Sun feeling familiar?
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The Music Thread
Oh, the Dandy Warhols weren't a one hit wonder? If I find the song I'll surely post it here Monica Richards - Death is the ultimate woman
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The Music Thread
What's the name of their "fade-out song" or similar again? Can't find it on youtube currently... Lacuna Coil - Swamped
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The Music Thread
You know, these beirut guys are kind of great Icon of Coil - Activate
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Cardinal sins of game design
If the art isn't consistent that's not a design flaw, it's an art direction flaw... Different department.Art should be designed to be consistent, otherwise it's badly designed. I don't care what part of a game development company is responsible for it What do you mean by that? Me Enghlish skillz r 2 low
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The Music Thread
Rubicon - This drenching night The band should have been bigger, certainly a lot of mainstream potential there, compare to e.g. Creed.
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What you did today
Invited my girlfriend out for dinner and had something quite original and delicious, canard (? duck?) with capers in a balsamico sauce with rocket (?), cherry tomatoes, small leek (?) and young potatoes. (Damn, I don't trust my dictionnaire with these food words, they just sound too strange...) Afterwards we went out for a nice gothic party that surprised me with a lot of non-technoid music, which was great. Then there was a censored part of the night, which was great too, and now I'm checking the boards and trying to convince myself to get ready to get some hours of sleep. That was one good day
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The Music Thread
Chamber, L'orchestre de chambre noir - Dead man's song singing voice sends shivers down my spine every time I hear him without fail.
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Romantic drivel
Yeah, great... not. You see, the problem isn't him. Sure, being honest is one thing. Telling the news to hurt others however is something quite different - otoh, don't let the moral of a random board visitor get in your way
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The Large Hadron Collider
Your English is partially a bit hard to understand right now, but I agree with you as far as I can tell How should it improve things to cut the observer out? Someone would then have to redefine/newly explain everything in quantum mechanics. I always loved the philosphical implications of physics and the way it always brought up new questions not only about the stuff the theory dealt with but on life and the "workings of the universe" so to speak. Quote from that article: "It is even possible that the critical evidence already exists, in data from an American experiment in Illinois that has yet to be analysed fully." Do you know more about said experiment?
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The Music Thread
The Sisters of Mercy - Logic
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The Music Thread
Nine Inch Nails - Ringfinger
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Creationist Site Targets Spore
All the more publicity for the game And if it's not fake, another example of how un-intelligent certain supporters of "intelligent design" are (nothing against the concept of intelligent design, which is fun, but against the people believing the creation of the world was 1:1 as told by the bible). Last I heard it was still a theory with a lot that supports it