I have a question at last related to game development. It's related, I promise.
What's your favorite fur pattern? Maybe not even fur, any color pattern you can find on an animal. I'm out of ideas and all I got is calico spots, tiger stripes, and different shapes of that tuxedo belly pattern.

    @Megalomaniak It is disgusting.


    @cybereality There's a pitch black one in the cat colony in the road where I live momentarily, with bright orange eyes.

    So that's my suggestion to @packrat :-)

    Could also be a sky dome from a mouse pov ...

    Megalomaniak I'm not sure I want to live on this planet any more...

    It's a troll. That's how Palmer rolls.

    Megalomaniak I'm not sure I want to live on this planet any more...

    Well, put the headset on and you won't be living on this planet any more. 🙂

    Megalomaniak I like a bit of virtual blood sport, but biggie tech is piss scared of making the slightest microaggression to anything that breathes, unless they can get money from you. This thing is beyond a microaggression and you can't sap money from someone who's dead unless you're in tax or cremation services, or the body trade. Unless I'm wrong and they've subsidized the death business too.

    she's doing it again

    fire7side Speaking of 1984 inspired games, I came across this game on steam.

    I really liked the art and the story in Republique, but the controls aren't very good. It was originally an iOS tablet game, and didn't really convert well to the PC.

    I still want to play it, I started like the first 2 hours and it seemed good, like the old metal gear games, but the controls are strange.

      cybereality Yeah, I know what you mean. I was using the controller, but I'm not sure the right joystick was working so I used the mouse and the controller. I'm going to try again and see if I just didn't notice the cursor moving. It's kind of jarring the way they switch cameras but I think I could get used to it. It's interesting because I plan to use many cameras on this game I'm working on. I'm not going to do it that way, more like Resident Evil where the camera just switches when you reach a certain area.

      Megalomaniak

      I hated that series. I suspect that you're supposed to empathize at some point with the mass-murderer who killed over 4000 people to make his game more realistic, but I never could see it that way. Ick.

      Of course, I've had to accept for a long time that my tastes don't jibe with the majority. 🙂

        No need for Sword Art Online. We're all already playing the game where if it die in the game, you die for real. It's call Life.

          duane I think it's made for tweens. I remember a metric ton of power fantasy and really basic MMO rules, with the story made up as they went based on those two constants.
          It makes me laugh because my favorite japanese show is also made up as they went along, the difference was the writers made it up as they were studying gnostic mysticism and they had no problem making the main character look weak as hell when it mostly made sense. It introduced me to Radiohead and my current favorite band Monoral. I am more than biased.
          I'm talking about Ergo Proxy

          cybereality I'm a big fan of the religion exploit. It bugs the game so when you die, the "is you dead?" check gets skipped and causes a hard crash. You can just reboot the game after that and keep playing. I think you lose all your progress, but I wouldn't know. I've heard some say you can get lucky and lose nothing, but that might be a bug totally unrelated to the exploit.

          SAO was interesting at first, but went down hill.
          As a programmer, I much prefer SOA. 🙂

            Kojack I like it when shows get weird or mystic with sci-fi. I really like it when they take "deus ex machina" very literally. I like it even more when they throw in a heavy dose of 200X era angst. Take a wild guess what my 2nd favorite anime is.