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Wasn't there talk of a Full Throttle 2 going round for the last 30 years as well?
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Gamer's voices rang out loud when Lucasfilm said they were going to make it less point n' click and more action based. It scared them off from making it. Might be the first time production of a game was affected by gamer outcry (at the very least the first one I remember). The internet was still not much more than a text base interface with dial-up modems and even then it was kinda trash.
i heard the rumours and saw the PCG spy articles on it. There was a concept art screenshot and then i think after maybe one or 2 years they cancelled it. Not heard a thing since.
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Played a little of Tokyo Extreme Racing. Not really sure what I'm doing yet. I think you just drive around looking for people to race.
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Square/Enix released a patch for Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth yesterday. A few days late, but no dollars short. Naturally, some people responded with "why did you break my mods!?" and other kicks to the gift horse's mouth, but the forums have gotten nicer. People are even talking about the game itself!
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People always find something to complain about.
I picked up Snowrunner again. Damn do I love this game, though I think I forgot to put it on my desert island list. It's filling the void I have right now while my RC Rock crawler is diassembled for painting.
Need to jump back into Aliens, but can be a tough play sometimes, accounting for the stress and the difficulty of saving at a moment notice.
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I played way too much some more of The Planet Crafter. I think I have every resource automated that can be automated now, it wasn't as bad to set up as I had feared.
I think there's only two more late game resources left, which can only be found by exploration of late game areas. My terraforming progress is blocked until I find one of them, so next time I'll have to explore the last few corners of the map I haven't been to yet.
I think there's only two more late game resources left, which can only be found by exploration of late game areas. My terraforming progress is blocked until I find one of them, so next time I'll have to explore the last few corners of the map I haven't been to yet.
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Yesterday
Not dandruff or snow, Hail.
Woke me up, hard to sleep through a hail storm though.
Not going to snow like that here... ever... let alone Summer.
Okay, I make post Game related
If only it looked like that 25 years ago on N64
Not dandruff or snow, Hail.
Woke me up, hard to sleep through a hail storm though.
Not going to snow like that here... ever... let alone Summer.
Okay, I make post Game related
If only it looked like that 25 years ago on N64
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Description says it’s an E3 trailer from 2003. Huge departure from the original game, I can see why people were put off by it.
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Somewhere floating around is a PC Gamer magazine with an article, or at least a section, dedicated to the backlash LucasArts got from fans over the more action oriented announcement. I used to have that issue.
Personally, I think they still should have made it.
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Doesn't look that bad to me, but I would say the original game's memorable but wasn't that great.
It was a cool setting and, more often than not with those games, that was more than half of its appeal already.
Still playing mechanicus and we're reaching the end game. We're cleaning up the last few missions before i finish off the final boss. My techpriests are all coming close to lvl 20 and make scrap metal of most of the enemies. The last 2 bosses so far have been a push over. Again the only thing that makes it stressful is the Doomsday clock. Whilst i make take 4 turns to beat the bosses, i enter the fight 15 turns down (alert level 3) just making my way to the fight.
Still, despite that i've been lucky with encounters and so far the dial is at 64/100. Thankfully the prior missions most of the encounters have been no more adding 1% or sometimes 0% to the doomsday clock. So we're well ahead of schedule beating the game.
On other news, POE1 maybe getting another league after the fan base sulked and doomsayers after GGG said that they were concentrating POE2 instead of in parallel as previously promised. I had hoped for more time to get challenges but honestly i'm over it. Screw the rewards.
Still, despite that i've been lucky with encounters and so far the dial is at 64/100. Thankfully the prior missions most of the encounters have been no more adding 1% or sometimes 0% to the doomsday clock. So we're well ahead of schedule beating the game.
On other news, POE1 maybe getting another league after the fan base sulked and doomsayers after GGG said that they were concentrating POE2 instead of in parallel as previously promised. I had hoped for more time to get challenges but honestly i'm over it. Screw the rewards.
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@Pifanjr remember (probably not), us discussing how I had painted over glasses in a picture (to remove them) and saved the file as a .png and somehow they kept showing back up whenever AI used the picture? After continually running into this, I asked CoPilot how this was happening.
According to CoPilot, when you paint over something with some (maybe all) paint programs, you are actually creating a new layer. This is at least partially so you can undo it if you want. However, unbeknownst to the human eye, this new layer is, for some reason, not 100 percent opaque. It's close enough so that you can't see through it, but not close enough that computers can't see through it. So to AI it's just more stuff in the picture. This can even happen if you manually remove a background. The invisible layer you created when you deleted the background is just another layer that isn't completely opaque.
According to CoPilot, when you paint over something with some (maybe all) paint programs, you are actually creating a new layer. This is at least partially so you can undo it if you want. However, unbeknownst to the human eye, this new layer is, for some reason, not 100 percent opaque. It's close enough so that you can't see through it, but not close enough that computers can't see through it. So to AI it's just more stuff in the picture. This can even happen if you manually remove a background. The invisible layer you created when you deleted the background is just another layer that isn't completely opaque.
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I vaguely remember that conversation, but CoPilot's response seems strange to me. I understand the layer part, but not why it wouldn't be 100% opaque. Though I can imagine that if you're trying to remove glasses, an AI program could still notice that the area where the glasses are is different even if it looks blended to the human eye. So it might just interpret it as skin-coloured glasses.
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Nope, its answer was correct. I've since verified CoPilot's answer by first creating a picture with text and saving it and then copying and pasting a picture over top of it and saving it again. I then imported it into AI and could see the text under the picture. Would be great for secret messages
Originally I thought the same as you and went back and repainted the glasses 3 times.
As for why it's not 100 percent opaque, you'd have to ask Adobe, but I've since found out that paint(dot)net is also not 100 percent opaque, so there must be a reason for it. Probably it's the Illuminati.
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The back-end of Steam has a calendar that shows the upcoming fests, sales and big releases for the next few months. It's kind of cool. Unfortunately, I'm about to lose my access to the back-end. Although I could just pay $100 and get permanent access.
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Hardware prices are going up in some sectors. I like to look at gaming laptops and dream about getting my GF one so we can play more than Roblox, Minecraft or Stardew Valley together. I used to see an HP Victus with a RTX 4050 and 8GB RAM for $599. I was really considering that for a budget option, since the 4050 should be good on 1080p especially with DLSS, and I can easily upgrade the RAM for about $45 more. That same laptop sits right around $699 now. Granted, there are a few other options slightly better for around the exact same price, but I’m not seriously planning on getting anything for now. Just waiting for the day that she caves in to my relentless “we should get you a better laptop” quips I make at her multiple times a week. Seriously though, yesterday I sent her a sticker on Steam chat while she was in game on Stardew, she opened it and it lagged her laptop to slideshow levels of stuttering.
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I have been playing Assetto Corsa (2014). It reminds me a lot of my favourite simulation which was F355 Challenge. That one had a 3 screen arcade cabinet but I mostly played it on the SEGA Dreamcast.
What I like about AC is that it's very barebones in presentation, but it allows you to modify everything as deeply as you want. Although I'm going through the career mode (just a set series of events, really, there's no real storyline or anything like that) the greatest enjoyment is in time trials: just the car, a track, your eyes and your fingers. I find these games very similar to arcade shmups in that you get easily in the zone: making the perfect line, shaving off one more second out of your best lap. When you get in the zone it doesn't matter if the graphics are 10 years old, it's basically just a skin for the meat of the experience. And I'm not a big car or racing enthusiast either. But the mechanics of these games are very thrilling, I find.
What I like about AC is that it's very barebones in presentation, but it allows you to modify everything as deeply as you want. Although I'm going through the career mode (just a set series of events, really, there's no real storyline or anything like that) the greatest enjoyment is in time trials: just the car, a track, your eyes and your fingers. I find these games very similar to arcade shmups in that you get easily in the zone: making the perfect line, shaving off one more second out of your best lap. When you get in the zone it doesn't matter if the graphics are 10 years old, it's basically just a skin for the meat of the experience. And I'm not a big car or racing enthusiast either. But the mechanics of these games are very thrilling, I find.
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@Pifanjr I would like to withdraw everything I said in my response about the .png files. For one thing, my test was flawed because I didn't even check the opacity settings. But I'm now thinking that all of us including CoPilot were wrong, but I don't know for sure, so there's no sense in explaining it yet. I sent a message to a developer I know who has created an art program. We'll see what he says. He's getting ready to release a game, so it may be awhile before he gets back to me. His game is about opening an art gallery, and it has an art program so you can make paintings in the game.
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I once again stayed up far too late playing The Planet Crafter. I had actually turned off my PC already planning to go to bed after walking my dog, but I couldn't stop thinking about the game. So when I returned from my walk, I just booted up the PC again.
I realised I had unlocked pretty much everything in the game, I just needed to get my total terraforming score high enough for the last unlock. Turns out that you can go all in on oxygen generation while ignoring everything else and it only took me about an hour to finish the remaining 30% of the total progress.
Now I just have to finish the actual story. Apparently I hadn't explored well enough around the initial clue, but better late than never.
I realised I had unlocked pretty much everything in the game, I just needed to get my total terraforming score high enough for the last unlock. Turns out that you can go all in on oxygen generation while ignoring everything else and it only took me about an hour to finish the remaining 30% of the total progress.
Now I just have to finish the actual story. Apparently I hadn't explored well enough around the initial clue, but better late than never.
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