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Bimbam

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.

packrat

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.

cybereality

Dishonored was pretty good for me. Can't remember the story, but you had lots of powers, and they included rats. Graphics had an original art design too, I found it enjoyable and on the same level as Bioshock and Half-Life 2, just with a less interesting story.

Tomcat

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"?

Kojack

cybereality
Here's a little easter egg from Bonelab.

I couldn't push the desk though. 🙁

cybereality

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.

Tomcat

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.

cybereality

fire7side

Change to my model to smooth shading. I didn't like flat shading the more I worked with it. Some of the premade furniture I have, I'll have to redo like the couch.

I don't want to start a project because I don't have a very good track record of finishing anything. I'm just going to try to animate and do a resident evil camera and motion system right now.

packrat

Ladies and gentlemen, I have a numpad again. I never knew what I had until it turned around back into my life. Take a moment to appreciate your numpads.

Megalomaniak

packrat Take a moment to appreciate your numpads.

I have never compromised on this. If there is no numpad then it's barely usable.

TwistedTwigleg

Numpads are great, especially for 3D work (like in Blender). Now I always look for keyboards that have them or buy an external one (in theory - haven’t needed one yet, but… 🤔)

cybereality

Sorry, I can't stand numpads. Mostly because of the ergonomics. They make the keyboard too wide, which means the home key of your left hand and the resting mouse position are eschew. It messed with my back. I only use compact keyboards, that way my arms are symmetrical.

packrat

cybereality I get what you mean, but I fidget a ton when I'm typing for a while. Any sense of proper posture isn't important to me so long my neck doesn't hurt or crook. And I'm allowed to type standing up when I feel like it (like right now). My elementary school typing teacher would embalm my still living body from the gallows if she saw my habits got worse with time.

fire7side

cybereality I've always had standard keyboards so compacts feel totally wrong. Most of it is a keyboard should be lower than most people type on it with, like a table or desk. I bought a keyboard slide out for under my desk but haven't put it in yet.

Megalomaniak

cybereality Could get one of those standalone numpads then. Maybe the best of both worlds so-to-speak.

Pixophir

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

Hell no to short keyboards. 🙂
Sometimes I'll be here with (from left to right):

Space Pilot Pro
Virpil Throttle
Wooting Lekker full length keyboard
Virpil Joystick
Logitech G604 mouse
But right now the Virpils are off the desk (I'm not in a sim mood)

If I'm playing a game like Witcher 3 then I'll have my Logitech G13 on the left of my keyboard. Thumbstick for walking.

While I love my Wooting Lekker, I do at times miss my extra wide Corsair K95 keyboard. 18 macro keys on the left were great in WOW (I had a customised UI that matched them). The volume roller was cool. Shame the backlights were crap, every couple of weeks a key backlight would burn out, by the time I replaced it, half the keys at random had no backlight. It was a common problem with that model.

packrat

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.

Kojack

packrat
Oh there's some odd ones alright. 🙂
I've got a Novint Falcon haptic controller. I used to leave it sitting on top of my PC in my staffroom, it was fun watching other staff do double takes when they saw it.

Has anyone ever used a Logitech Nulooq? I wanted one, but they abandoned it, so I don't know if it's usable at all. I'm sure I could get it working with HID access, but I don't like risking purchases with no official software support.

The grey ring around it is a 3DOF device (X, Y, Yaw) like a 3D Connexion (who Logitech own). The top is 5 buttons plus an ipod style wheel.
It would make a cool jog/shuttle controller.

Another one I've got here: Razer Hydra.
This had a great redemption arc. When it came out it was pretty pointless. The only game that really supported it properly was Portal 2 (which had a custom campaign just for it with new game features).
But later someone thought "What if we stick one controller in the Oculus DK1 headband? We'll have 6DOF VR tracking!"
Suddenly they became rare, everybody wanted one, but they were discontinued. Worked pretty well.

cybereality

This my keyboard, but I had to get rid of the figures cause of my cat.

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