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Dear Planetcrap: Quit Whining.
February 23rd 2009, 02:37 MSK by Charles The topic system works just fine. Submit shit worth talking about, and there's no problem getting things on the front page. See? I just did it. Use it or not, but bitching about it without using it is kind of sad. |
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I really can't help the feeling that they've turned the difficulty up, compared to the demo. I find Normal rather normal, it all depends on who you play with - you go rescue an idiot strangled by a Smoker to get downed by a Hunter. Or a bad combination of special infected and tank can shuffle the cards. I've been trying to beat Dead Air (which I seem to like the most) on Expert, but you can't get dumb bots to camp in one place. I've once connected to a Expert game in progress, finale of No Mercy, but I gave up after ~20 tries. (Closet camping was fine until tank visited; roof camping was fine until you went to rescue someone, etc.) |
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Huh. If anything I felt like Normal was even easier. The Hoards, for example, seemed much smaller and the Tanks seemed to go down a lot easier. From playing the demo on higher difficulty levels I remember every Tank encounter being a potential --or even probable-- TPK. One thing I've noticed is that damn Witch seems to wake up more easily now. Or maybe it's just me. blog | photoblog | PlanetCrap Flickr group
"It was a little hard to tell how bad I was bleeding on account of the salsa" -- Jibble |
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I'm definitely not looking for a boxed CMS. Unless there's a magic one out there that's super easy to modify and customize without some kind of crappy plugin system, it's going to be easier* to make my own for the stuff I intend. *Preemptive "G-Man can go fuck himself." No.
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So, what are you asking? Witnesses in the house heard Jones say "why did you pee on me Pooh Bear?" A few moments later, the witness heard the son say "Mama you done stabbed me."
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#27 by Charles I'm definitely not looking for a boxed CMS. Unless there's a magic one out there that's super easy to modify and customize without some kind of crappy plugin system, it's going to be easier* to make my own for the stuff I intend. *Preemptive "G-Man can go fuck himself." Depends on what you mean by "super easy to modify and customize without some kind of crappy plugin system". Do you just want to modify and customise the look of something or do you want to add new features? What are the baseline features you need? |
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Modify and customize look, as well as create new features. Baseline feature would be a crap-like topic and comment system. No.
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Well, if you want to customize look, you'll have to go into templates one way or another; I don't know of any CMS/plugin that would do exactly what you want, so you need to either spend time learning and coding; or just time spent coding all over again and bugfixing all over again. As much as I prefer to start from a scratch, there really is no good reason not to use some existing framework instead of reinventing the wheel. Yum yum MVC. |
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#26 by Jamie Huh. If anything I felt like Normal was even easier. ...Tanks seemed to go down a lot easier. I don't think Tank health has changed - it's around 4000HP on Normal, as you can see when you sum up the total damage at the end of level. But maybe they've increased weapon power. Or maybe you just got so damn much better. I think that Tanks actually appear much more often, in demo (and cracked version I used to have) they used to appear once per level at max, now it's not unusual to see them twice, all on Normal. [whispers] I think Valve is playing with our brains. I need to stay up at night to play with you guys sometimes. |
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I dunno where the current photography thread is but since this is Planetcrap, I figure that here is as good a place as any... My wife got me a place on a creative photography course for Christmas. Part of the course involves field trips during which we explore whatever aspect of photography we covered in the previous week's evening class. So far we've done a general field trip, a trip to Glendalough to do some landscape photography and a morning in Dublin city doing some street photography. I've stuck some of the photos that I'm happiest with up in a Flickr collection for your heartless criticism. |
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Photography is so 2007. |
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What's the deal with street photography and permission? Do you ask people if they mind you taking a photo or do you just shoot and hope no-one gets arsey? "If you watch the movie "Jaws" backwards, it's a movie about a shark that keeps throwing up people until they have to open a beach." - /b/tard
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As far as I know you don't have to ask permission. It can be rude not to of course, but other than that you're free snap whatever is in the streets. "Common sense; it is so rare, it is a god damn superpower."
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More info on sites such as these (though that one is specific to the US, dunno how limiting European and local laws are) "Common sense; it is so rare, it is a god damn superpower."
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Deadlock, those look great. Nice use of B&W. Or is that what passes for color in Glendalough? I kid, I kid! I'm not sure what the laws are in Ireland, but in the US you can generally photograph anyone in a public place unless they have a clear expectation of privacy (e.g., in a changing room or bathroom). Of course, it's generally polite to ask permission if you're being intrusive, and I imagine most street performers would expect a tip. blog | photoblog | PlanetCrap Flickr group
"It was a little hard to tell how bad I was bleeding on account of the salsa" -- Jibble |
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What Jamie and Gaggle say is correct. As long as you (the photographer) are in a public place and the person that you are photographing doesn't have a reasonable expectation of privacy then you're free to snap away. Obviously someone might still take exception and you need to read the situation. The shots that I took on the street field trip were generally taken a little distance away, so I wasn't in anyone's face and it may not even have been obvious that they were the subject of the photo. In any event it helps that I was in a part of the city that is frequented by tourists so it's not uncommon or unusual to see people carrying cameras. Note that this isn't across the board - in France, for example, everyone owns the copyright for their own image so if you take a photograph on the street you technically have to get anyone whose face is recognisable to sign a model release form. I think that in practise it doesn't really work out like that and that that generally happens if the photo is going to published or whatever. In the second shot of the puppeteer, he's actually coming towards me and I think he was a bit miffed that I was taking a photo and hadn't thrown some money into his hat. I snapped the shot then went to a shop to get some change but when I came back he had already moved on somewhere else :-( He's on that street regularly though, so I'll be sure to throw something in next time I see him, even if he doesn't recognise what for. |
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Nice shots. #34 by lwf Photography is so 2007. No. |
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deadlock (#39): Note that this isn't across the board - in France, for example, everyone owns the copyright for their own image so if you take a photograph on the street you technically have to get anyone whose face is recognisable to sign a model release form. I think Japan's the same. Although you could probably just play the dumb gaijin card. "If you watch the movie "Jaws" backwards, it's a movie about a shark that keeps throwing up people until they have to open a beach." - /b/tard
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Lwf is so 2004. 52 Weeks and Something's On Movie Blog
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That putdown is so 15:16:36. "If you watch the movie "Jaws" backwards, it's a movie about a shark that keeps throwing up people until they have to open a beach." - /b/tard
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I have a lunch date with Valve on Thursday. Wish me luck. |
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Good luck! I suggest dropping as many Portal quotes on them as possible. In fact you should order cake for dessert and then excuse yourself from the table and go to the waiter and cancel the order, and then when you get back to the table and the cake never comes you can say... something. I have no idea what. But make it funny. BUYBUYBUY
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I'm pre-fawning already. Good luck Caryn! "Common sense; it is so rare, it is a god damn superpower."
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Caryn (#44): I have a lunch date with Valve on Thursday. Wish me luck. What will you wear? |
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I suggest a pair of washed out jeans, a black loose-fitting belt, a washed out light brown leather jacket patched up with some duct tape, and a white hoodie shirt that leaves the midriff slightly exposed. Also, wear a hair band and fingerless gloves. You'll be hired on the spot. "Common sense; it is so rare, it is a god damn superpower."
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Gunp01nt, please, Schiphol pictures. "Action stars of two decades ago shot .44 bullets out of their cocks. Honestly, if me and Charles Bronson were in the same room I'd kill myself just to make sure he didn't hurt me."
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Heh, my dad was in there waiting for his flight to Jordan. when it happened. I texted him saying I hoped his flight wouldn't be delayed but that may come across as slightly insensitive now that it's been announced that people died in the crash. I love how the media go to full sensationalist mode in these situations. One source has a 'living timeline' article which had the following gem pop up on it: 10.55: the first Twitter witness reports "IT consultant of perfect lovemaking art."
- randomly generated subject header of a spam e-mail |
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#50 by Gunp01nt now that it's been announced that people died in the crash. Damn. Local news here says no casualties, but apparently there's some confusion on that still. What's with all the planes crashing lately? Is there even a statistical increase? "Common sense; it is so rare, it is a god damn superpower."
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good luck Caryn! "Testiculos habet et bene pendentes" - "He has testicles, and they dangle nicely."
"LP, your big balls are a religion." - Jibble |
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Caryn should wear a swimsuit with hiking boots and bring along a stuffed unicorn. What pictures? Link! <Hugin_len> Basically, cheesy doesn't have awful taste in music, he's simply very white.
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What's with all the planes crashing lately? Is there even a statistical increase? Anyway, I'd say that those statistics are nothing but twisting the truth. Number of cars/trucks/buses/trains/ships on the road vs. number of airplanes in the sky. I'd say there must be billions of cars on the road at any given time. Airplanes? I'm SURE there aren't as many. Number of miles an average person might fly in a year (0-1500) vs. miles an average person might travel by all the other traffic mediums (everybody does at least 3500 miles a year in a car alone. Add buses, trains, metro, tube etc. to the picture) If I use my car 500 times a year without anything ever happening to me, then get on one plane, and crash and die, those statistics can lick my burned balls. "Action stars of two decades ago shot .44 bullets out of their cocks. Honestly, if me and Charles Bronson were in the same room I'd kill myself just to make sure he didn't hurt me."
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What? "Common sense; it is so rare, it is a god damn superpower."
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CNN says 9 people died, but I don't know the time differential between posts! |
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Oh ok, only about an hour. |
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Use your brain. "Action stars of two decades ago shot .44 bullets out of their cocks. Honestly, if me and Charles Bronson were in the same room I'd kill myself just to make sure he didn't hurt me."
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Amazingly, I did. PC's post time means jack and shit to me, so eyeballing someone's post without any frame of reference does me no good. |
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Quake Live is now in open beta, although the initial signup is a bit slow at the moment (I guess they didn't anticipate such a rush). There seem to be more of the casual gamer crowd now, which means I'm getting raped a little less often. Also, there are now various achievements you can unlock, if that's your thing. If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate!
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New request for PC7: Time zone settings. |
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Ray's working on a version where you can customize your own time zone to whatever time you want! Screw Greenwich Mean! Ha! 52 Weeks and Something's On Movie Blog
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Germany is GMT +1. Just saying. "Action stars of two decades ago shot .44 bullets out of their cocks. Honestly, if me and Charles Bronson were in the same room I'd kill myself just to make sure he didn't hurt me."
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#31 assemblerer - As much as I prefer to start from a scratch, there really is no good reason not to use some existing framework instead of reinventing the wheel. Unless, of course, you are doing it as a learning experience as much as anything. I wouldn't trust a programmer whose only experience was modifying someone else's existing shit, would you? Well, until I've done shit myself, I won't trust myself to use existing resources properly. No.
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Good luck, Caryn. If you really wanted to impress them, you'd show up in your belly dancing costume, except swap out the sword for a crowbar. blog | photoblog | PlanetCrap Flickr group
"It was a little hard to tell how bad I was bleeding on account of the salsa" -- Jibble |
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Good luck Caryn! I hope they don't insert gas fittings into your forehead like that one employee of theirs. |
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#51 by gaggle What's with all the planes crashing lately? Is there even a statistical increase? The thing is that even though it seems like a lot of plane crashes, the survivor rate has been pretty good. <Hugin_len> Basically, cheesy doesn't have awful taste in music, he's simply very white.
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Played some Left 4 Dead in versus mode last night, and ...eh. I should really give it a few more shots before coming to a final judgment, but my first impression is that I don't like it as much as the standard co-op game as survivors. Was it just the server I was on or is versus stacked WAY in favor of the infected? No matter which team was playing as survivors, they just got stomped every round. The combination of human intelligence guiding the boomers/smokers/hunters on top of the standard vanilla zombie hoards threat just made things brutal for the humans. Kind of fun when you're on the undead team, but frustrating otherwise. blog | photoblog | PlanetCrap Flickr group
"It was a little hard to tell how bad I was bleeding on account of the salsa" -- Jibble |
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Report on an interesting study of MMORPG players. Highlights: 1. Women are more hardcore than men 2. People tend to play with friends/family from offline relationships, not online ones. 3. MMORPG players are healthier than non-players (WTF?) 4. These games, especially RP servers, are full of depressed emo types. I'm skeptical about #3, mainly because the study asked players to report height/weight in survey form. They say this is the same methodology used to gather info on the comparison groups, but it still seems suspect to me. I also wonder if they controlled for age (younger folks may be healthier than older). #2 is interesting, though. Seems to suggest that game companies do everything they can to take larger social networks into play when marketing their games or building their own social networking tools. blog | photoblog | PlanetCrap Flickr group
"It was a little hard to tell how bad I was bleeding on account of the salsa" -- Jibble |
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jj (re: blog post), I saw that whip on sale and was really tempted to buy it for myself. And yes, that was intentionally vague for the sake of humor. |
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I'm on my free month of Xbox-Live. Fun stuff! If anyone wants to add me; the tag is FoRmaTiTo. "Action stars of two decades ago shot .44 bullets out of their cocks. Honestly, if me and Charles Bronson were in the same room I'd kill myself just to make sure he didn't hurt me."
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I've seen versus servers where the infected get their asses handed to them, but it's fairly rare. I think it's ok for the occasional change, but it's not as fun as it should be. "Testiculos habet et bene pendentes" - "He has testicles, and they dangle nicely."
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[grammar nazi]Jamie, for fuck's sake. It's HORDE.[/grammar nazi] "THE FUCKING KITTY LITTER FUCKING BOMB GHRHGURHGUHGRUGHRUGHURHGURHGHHGHUAHUHU KITTY" -- greg
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Oops. blog | photoblog | PlanetCrap Flickr group
"It was a little hard to tell how bad I was bleeding on account of the salsa" -- Jibble |
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