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packrat It's a tragedy that Dishonored is not mentioned once.

I never liked Dishonoured. It struck me as a wholly mediocre, forgettable game that was not deserving of the wild hype it got. I swear I even completed it, but I couldn't name a single character or tell you what the plot was.

"You can overlook the lack of compelling story if you've got Bioshock-esque powers with Deus Ex-esque level design" I hear you cry. Not when both of the aforementioned provided equally if not more compelling gameplay and level design 5+ years earlier, with BioShock Infinite laying this game to rest within a year of its release.

tldr; Elizabeth was single-handedly more impressive than anything in Dishonoured.... imo.

duane Human nature being what it is, some people collected most of the property and used it to control the rest of us.

It would be good to make a game that shows how politicians manipulate people. The closest thing to such a concept was at one time The Sims Medieval, which was not developed, although it had many fans.

Yup, the game is about politics and of politics. The project that I propose could eventually develop into something like this. Of course, I won't do something like that on my own. It will only happen if a qualified, interested group comes together.

Well, if I can't do it, maybe someone else will take over and implement the idea.

cybereality Probably too far into politics, but everyone should read 1984, if you haven't read it recently.

Are there any translations of Russian anti-utopias like Voinovich's "Moscow 2042" or Zamyatin's "Us""We"?

Looks like Zamyatin book came out here as "We". I just bought it ($0.99 since I guess it is public domain). Moscow 2042 doesn't look like it was ever translated or reprinted. But We looks really good, I will read that next. Thanks.

cybereality Looks like Zamyatin book came out here as "We".

Yeah, that's a better translation.

There are too many connotations in 2042 that only people who lived in the Soviet Union can understand. Even Russians will not understand much now, let alone foreigners.

Bimbam
Deus Ex and Bioshock didn't have the ability to sprint and base jump off rooftops, teleport behind a squad of guards, slit one dude's neck, stop time, fire a crossbow, place a spring razor on it (because time's not moving), and resume time for the bolt to take out the last 4 gaurds who are 10 yards away with one rigged crossbow bolt. All without making a single sound, but only if you know what you're doing and the whole maneuver only takes 3 seconds. The reason I keep playing it again
The story was shot in the knees. They tried zero exposition that was cool at the time, but there was too much fiction to explain nothing.

Well, I think I understand people who use it. I very rarely use the numpad, it is too far off for me, and wide keyboards are in the way of the mouse. I sometimes contemplate 3 seconds the green num-lock light when booting :-) Just like one contemplates the little hole in the inner pane of an airplane's window :-)

Thing is, when I type in numbers I usually have to double check them anyway (bank account numbers, constants when coding) and it is shorter for the eye up from the number keys. Or I use cut & paste, or a proper one-time calculation (constants, etc.). Anything else in programming are usually 0.0, 0.5, 1.0, M_PI, UINT32_MAX or the fancy std::numeric_limits<uint32_t>::max() (attempt to ridicule some of C++ ) or predefined constants.

Kojack Gaming spawns the weirdest peripherals.
The weirdest I have is old keyboards I buy at flea markets and whatever. I like the way they feel. The function keys on this Dell KB212-B are my favorite. So many keyboards design the function keys like they're an afterthought. My desk has a bezel that acts like the ergonomic ramp thingy at the bottom of your Corsair.