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General Discussion / Re: Block Gang - Judgement of Traitors
« on: August 09, 2022, 07:30:24 PM »Name two things that go together better than Racism and accusations of child enthusiasm.rendergoi and half of his wife's assets
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Off Topic / Re: U.S.A. Politics Thread | Dems seeing their Polls, Desperately Raid Annoying Orange's Home
« on: August 09, 2022, 07:11:15 PM »The president as commander in chief signs off all military orders and as such "the buck stops here" in who to blame for the bad ones.the US is a country built on the arms trade. was this $1.29 bil deal completed before or after the civilian bombings? if after, an investigation is definitely necessary. if before, you can only blame the us government for arming them, but the saidi coalition soldiers were the ones who pulled the trigger. ironically, the US also funded and armed the opposing forces of the civil war, which also committed several atrocities against civilians.
Secondly, you're completely ignoring the US backed Saudi attack on Yemen in which Obama sold $1.29 bil in smart bombs that, and I quote the human rights watch:
A few casualties is one thing, you and your administration killing thousands and wounding thousands more, a lot who were children, all civilians, is in my opinion at least worth looking into.
But we're the US so no one calls us on it for some reason
houthi fighters are a guerilla force and guerilla warfare prompts some of the worst humanitarian crises in history. its hard to accurately deliver ordinance to a target that routinely shoots and scoots behind the cover of a civilian population. armies have to make a tough call between endangering their soldiers or conducting less-than-ideal strikes on enemies hidden deep within towns and cities. it never excuses the mass killing of civilians, but stresses the need for more surgical weapons such as the US's prototype ninja hellfires which shred targets with minimal collateral damage.
all modern militaries should have a dedicated sector to preventing collateral and civilian casualties, but it's never properly funded or explored in wars where show of force and shock and awe are the invading forces' MO. for example, a mass civilian evacuation plan is impossible for armies that need a first-strike advantage to achieve their objective. letting the hostile force know exactly which cities and towns you plan on attacking is counterproductive and can potentially lead to more soldier casualties than a highly classified ambush operation.
war is hell, and the laws of war are routinely violated by all forces involved in combat. armies do the best they can to court martial war criminals after combat, but doing so during combat isn't possible when you need every soldier to be combat-effective and mobile. these decisions happen further down the pecking order than presidents or leaders are able to control.
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General Discussion / Re: Block Gang - Judgement of Traitors
« on: August 09, 2022, 06:03:33 PM »Name two things that go together better than Racism and accusations of child enthusiasm.rendergoi and his wife's divorce papers
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Off Topic / Re: U.S.A. Politics Thread | Dems seeing their Polls, Desperately Raid Annoying Orange's Home
« on: August 09, 2022, 04:31:01 PM »And Obama, don't forget the countless innocent civilians carelessly killed in his drone warmost of the drone strikes armies authorize do not have reported civilians at the time of authorization. most drone collateral is caused by bad/incomplete communication between recon teams, drone operators, ordinance operators and the people above them in rank that authorize the attack.
leaders are in a unique position where they have the power to change the world but must also take responsibility for how it changes. however, presidents aren't the only people in an army with that power. even someone like putin, who most of the world hates right now, isn't directly responsible for the artillery strikes that killed civilians. the direct responsibility falls on the ground and air crews that misidentified civilians as military targets. someone like him is indirectly responsible for authorizing and publicizing the war, but war is war and once it's started it goes sideways fast. ground units get hit by accurate fire, call artillery assistance on the position they think they're taking fire from. these positions range over several km until they narrow their targets and score an accurate hit. civilians hiding in their homes, operating vehicles or carrying long items that can be misidentified as weapons tend to be killed before anyone even realizes they are civilians. these tough decisions become even tougher during asymmetrical warfare, as anyone driving a car or even walking could carry an IED or report your position to enemies.
obama authorized the use of thousands of hellfire missiles during the waning days of the war on terror. most of these quarter million dollar missiles were good hits on enemy armor and infantry. a few of them were bad hits on civilians, and at least three were friendly fire hits on US ground vehicles. he can't be directly responsible for the mistakes of ground crew with hundreds of ranks of separation between them, nor the gunner who launched the missile on bad information reported over their comms. however, these kinds of mistakes should be planned for and targets properly investigated before the strikes. leaving ground units to take fire and report incorrect coordinates under this intense fire is very irresponsible.
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Drama / Re: Has Tony had a single drop to drink since January 2022?
« on: August 09, 2022, 03:32:20 PM »
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Drama / Re: Plastiware was arrested for child research
« on: August 09, 2022, 03:30:33 PM »rykuta likes vore that cant be forgivenyou are what you eat
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Off Topic / Re: Hiring dev(s) for a Blockland-inspired game engine
« on: August 09, 2022, 02:55:38 PM »
several questions. answer at your own discretion, if you are unable/unwilling to i understand and can inquire further in personal messages. many of these are questions that publishers, backers and investors prefer to hear answers to. if you haven't asked yourself or answered any of these questions yet during your development, it wouldn't hurt to. please answer truthfully and realistically, nobody likes to work with someone who overestimates their abilities and overpromises, or underestimates themselves.
1) what programming language(s) are brown bricks written in? have you, are you currently, or do you plan on moving brown bricks to a different language or game engine?
2) how is your content pipeline laid out? what filetypes are used to make content for brown bricks (ie audio: wav vs ogg, mesh: dae vs obj)? do you plan on making your own filetypes or custom content pipeline? is all the content hardcoded/baked into the release or do you have/plan on making a mod api or interface? if you don't have a content pipeline yet, what is your plan for how your team's content creators will add new content to the game nondestructively? does your pipeline support runtime data changes, or is it compilation only?
3) will brown bricks' engine use any sort of reflection /delegates/assembly manipulation? if not, how do you plan to allow mod creators to overwrite/hook/callback brown bricks' engine functionality? if so, how do you plan on handling security and controlling how much mod creators can change (ie backdoor viruses, malicious code in mods)
4) how do you plan to target low-spec operating systems? what is your plan for rendering millions of meshes? are you working with serialized objects, or a shader/compute shader? if working with serialized objects (ie gameobjects or other assets that cannot be rendered in large quantities) how do you plan on culling unseen objects or rendering distant objects that do not require high detail or cpu/gpu usage?
5) do you have any roadmaps/graphical charts/research and development or tech showcases? how do you, as the lead developer, clarify and convey design plans to your team?
6) outside of blockland's community, who is your demographic and how do you plan on reaching them and giving them a game they can enjoy? what planned or current features, mechanics or ethos sets brown bricks apart from competitors? what features are similar to competitors and immediately recognizable to your demographic so they won't have to relearn new and potentially confusing mechanics? (ie pickaxe for mining, right click to plant blocks, etc)
7) what are some design challenges and limitations that you and your team are excited to tackle and solve? what limitations have you and your team been unable to bypass thus far? do you plan on working within these limitations or exceeding them?
8) what is your target revenue for brown bricks on launch month? what is your target price for the sale of a copy of brown bricks? do you feel like your projected/targeted sales are too ambitious or not ambitious enough? are you considering outsourcing some of the development to third-party companies such as publishers, art firms, localization teams or advertising agencies? if not, how do you plan on funding or distributing income to brown bricks and it's development team pre and post-launch?
1) what programming language(s) are brown bricks written in? have you, are you currently, or do you plan on moving brown bricks to a different language or game engine?
2) how is your content pipeline laid out? what filetypes are used to make content for brown bricks (ie audio: wav vs ogg, mesh: dae vs obj)? do you plan on making your own filetypes or custom content pipeline? is all the content hardcoded/baked into the release or do you have/plan on making a mod api or interface? if you don't have a content pipeline yet, what is your plan for how your team's content creators will add new content to the game nondestructively? does your pipeline support runtime data changes, or is it compilation only?
3) will brown bricks' engine use any sort of reflection /delegates/assembly manipulation? if not, how do you plan to allow mod creators to overwrite/hook/callback brown bricks' engine functionality? if so, how do you plan on handling security and controlling how much mod creators can change (ie backdoor viruses, malicious code in mods)
4) how do you plan to target low-spec operating systems? what is your plan for rendering millions of meshes? are you working with serialized objects, or a shader/compute shader? if working with serialized objects (ie gameobjects or other assets that cannot be rendered in large quantities) how do you plan on culling unseen objects or rendering distant objects that do not require high detail or cpu/gpu usage?
5) do you have any roadmaps/graphical charts/research and development or tech showcases? how do you, as the lead developer, clarify and convey design plans to your team?
6) outside of blockland's community, who is your demographic and how do you plan on reaching them and giving them a game they can enjoy? what planned or current features, mechanics or ethos sets brown bricks apart from competitors? what features are similar to competitors and immediately recognizable to your demographic so they won't have to relearn new and potentially confusing mechanics? (ie pickaxe for mining, right click to plant blocks, etc)
7) what are some design challenges and limitations that you and your team are excited to tackle and solve? what limitations have you and your team been unable to bypass thus far? do you plan on working within these limitations or exceeding them?
8) what is your target revenue for brown bricks on launch month? what is your target price for the sale of a copy of brown bricks? do you feel like your projected/targeted sales are too ambitious or not ambitious enough? are you considering outsourcing some of the development to third-party companies such as publishers, art firms, localization teams or advertising agencies? if not, how do you plan on funding or distributing income to brown bricks and it's development team pre and post-launch?
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Creativity / Re: After School Special Remake.
« on: August 09, 2022, 02:41:05 PM »
the brass, organ and guitar part of the original after school special are very hard to replicate with modern vsts. omnisphere has some good guitar samples and an arpeggiator but it never sounds as full and organic like the original. the closest samples i found to the brass and organ are in yamaha's keyboard vsts. if you layer a few of them it sounds pretty close.
given the limited tools at your disposal, you managed to nail it almost perfectly. hard work surfing vsts really pays off
given the limited tools at your disposal, you managed to nail it almost perfectly. hard work surfing vsts really pays off
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Drama / Re: Plastiware was arrested for child research
« on: August 09, 2022, 02:22:07 PM »
the only disgusting thing rykuta did to me was fuel my factorio addiction. hopefully one day he will be brought to justice for the 300+ hours of my life i lost crashing nuclear trains into each other.
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Drama / Re: Plastiware was arrested for child research
« on: August 09, 2022, 02:18:10 PM »
i left out that i also verbally consented to view the research. he was showing some of the e621 artwork he commissioned after we discussed commissions and he took great care to warn me that the content was NSFW before i clicked it. i can't speak for or attest to his interaction with anyone else but in my personal experience his personality was that of non-confrontation, respect and high self awareness and awareness of others' boundaries. he talked about his loveual preferences but never once made any sort of unwanted advances or sent pictures of himself
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Drama / Re: Plastiware was arrested for child research
« on: August 09, 2022, 02:11:25 PM »
rykuta sent furry research to me when i was 14-16 but that was only because we were having a highly intelligent discussion about furry research. sending unwanted research to anyone is obviously harassment but he never struck me as someone who would overstep boundaries unless given explicit verbal permission.
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Creativity / Re: After School Special Remake.
« on: August 08, 2022, 07:37:16 AM »
i like good remakes like this because its clear you spent a good hour or two breaking down the original to make it as faithful as possible. good job
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Off Topic / Re: What is AoT again????
« on: August 07, 2022, 08:53:01 PM »AoT is a dead gamelegends never die; they wait for the next major update
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Games / Re: hardest challenge in video game history has been completed
« on: August 05, 2022, 02:46:15 PM »
legendary elites have no chill