Malcador

Wow, such analysis from the likes of you. Doing a presentation isn't meant to be exciting, if it's monotonous and not done in a warm manner, who cares, you communicate your idea well enough and that's it. They lose interest, well that's their problem. It's like a University class in that regard, a prof told me that worked for him when he started, at least with large lectures.

For the record, the Disneyland castles for Cinderella (multiple references including Moszna Castle, Château de Chaumont and Alcázar of Segovia) and Sleeping Beauty (heavily based on Neuschwanstein Castle) were based on real castles not just some flight of fancy. Well with regards to the last one, the guy who comissioned that was pretty into flights of fancy, no ?

Makes sure you communicate it as coldly and efficiently as possible - just up, throw it at them and done. Given that you're presenting something I'd imagine you also have something worth saying. Unless you have a burning need to waste your time, I suppose

I dunno oby posted some nice looking women, albeit the photos were overly processed like some here. Oby, post. *throws dart* Armenian women.

Steam apparently was acting up, removing some people's games, giving them ones they never bought and re-downloading updates. I guess it's resolved now?

Epicurus has a nice quote about death, so I guess you should treasure each day. Or something. Deep freeze continuing here, need to invest in a pair of long underwear, or something insulating I can wear under my pants. Walking home results in my skin frozen, bah. But at least I got to come home to watch Die Hard 2 - sadly without Mr. Falcon in it.

And our mayor's at it again.

Also, adopt a feeling of disdain for your audience. You don't get nervous presenting to things that aren't human.

I'd imagine you'd have to get involved in some melee-monkey stuff, you can't keep everyone at range. But anyway, looks promising, 'inverse kinematics' makes for a good buzzphrase.

http://unknownworlds.com/ns2/natural-selection-source-code-released/ NS1 source code released, for the curious

I do agree, that if these are the problems we have as a society, then life is pretty good for us. Yes, it can be good PR (though I couldn't quantify how much, nor how many people see it simply as a PR stunt and consider it a negative. Wildstar seems to have its share of people decrying developers forfeiting their artistic integrity for the almighty dollar). Still, I'd rather have discussions about this over a lot of other things, simply because if I am discussing this then my life is likely at an improved level of comfort than it otherwise could be. Yeah, if only these were the problems the west had to tackle, even within the context of discrimination. I'll have to check for myself how big this "outrage" was, but I don't think it was all that large at least from first looking, but who knows. Even if it is a small segment, though, I suppose it's not worth it getting the social justice crusader types on their case like RPS, else interviews with them will be come ambushes like HoTS Well, you failed at the first part of your post, but that is SOP for you. This is just a red herring and I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt that you're just trolling, because you seem smarter than that. As Nonek put it in the news thread, the degree of verisimilitude for one's physical appearance will still be important to some people. You can see similar discussions on this forum with regards to Pillars of Eternity, based on whether or not armor styles should be heavily stylized or have a stronger focus on functional plausibility. Not really, was aiming at certain game types are going to require certain body types, so you're restricted there and you'll still see people upset over that, oddly. Which was pretty much what you referenced Nonek as, but I'm relieved to see you give me the benefit of the doubt.

Interesting boots in the last photo.

This industry is more entertaining to watch than the stuff it produces, some times.

Well, given I was speaking of MMORPGs your latter two examples don't match. I've no idea what LA2 is, though. As fun as a game where PvP can happen anytime any moment, with gankers being prevalent, it does reduce the appeal. EVE has this, though I'd guess other aspects of game do that rather than the fact everyone is out to gank you economically or otherwise.

Wonder if one could work QTEs into a PnP game. You could recreate modern gaming!

Meh, too touched up.

And a good DM will always let you torture an elderly married couple for information. It was a 40K RPG, after all.

Fun in Cities in Motion 2 is trying to salvage a bad design. I figure I need to ditch my 20 bus routes in favour of trams

A gold star for you. Though I think your crusading is wasted on the breast sizes of sprites in a MMORPG with pretty ridiculous art to begin with.

Crazy talk, every thing in gaming is a place for serious debate.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/01/stealth-marketing-microsoft-paying-youtubers-for-xbox-one-mentions/ Drama over MS' alleged offer to pay Machinima partners more for positive Xbone talk

Shame it is, but I suppose your game won't get very large as people hate being ganked.

I guess RPGs are ok in that respect, well in terms of making sure every body type and skin colour can be played. Story wise, well I can see that leading to some interesting handcuffing, heh. Now there's a ****ing surprise.

I should start searching for them, I have no idea who any of these people are!

Some day the Korean War will get a TV series like that. Heh.