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.

                          Ergo Proxy was really good. I used that girl as my avatar for a long time.

                          Texhnolyze, Serial Experiments Lain, and Paranoia Agent are all up there too.

                          Nothing beats Ghost in the Shell, though.

                            packrat 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.

                            Bananya?

                              cybereality I have never heard of Paranoia Agent until just now, and it's a sin I never got around to watching Ghost in the Shell. I couldn't get into Texhnolyze but I may give it another chance someday. I have way too much to do to sit down and watch anything. Studying german, trying to get LPI certification, I've redone the same sheets of red green and blue shapes for the past 3 days because i keep thinking of much better ways to program the shader. In the small bit of free time I get, I walk outside, otherwise my face gets rough and my hair gets greasy.
                              I also post here and get banned from imageboards for rules I never bothered to read. Turns out image boards are way more strict nowadays than 10 years back.

                                I was watching Texhnolyze but stopped. I can't remember why and I can't remember a single thing about the show, except a vague impression of someone standing next to a wall. I may have just got distracted by another show. If I go back to it, I'll have to start from the beginning again.

                                  Kojack Yeah, same exact experience. I got really busy and the whole show was spirited away from my memory.

                                  It's not Bananya, by the way.

                                    cybereality I bricked pulseaudio for the first time in a year trying a hack without the sacrificial thinkpad to test it on first. That said, without audio, it looks cool.
                                    Now I need to thank you. I just did a ton of what I think people call "image processing" that would have totally caused my old computer to shoot itself. The result is half of just 1/5th of an avatar creation system I'm designing. It's a lot of work for something that will be an "acquired taste" at best.
                                    I personally think it looks really cool, but I also think imperfect edges, rough lines and paint splats are awesome.
                                    There are multiple reasons I dropped out from art classes.