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General Discussion / Re: Blocklanders and their current/future careers
« on: September 03, 2015, 11:32:30 PM »networking solutionswhat is this precisely
sounds like a specific certification or something
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sounds like a specific certification or something
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General Discussion / Re: Blocklanders and their current/future careers
« on: September 03, 2015, 11:25:17 PM »
he's been asking questions in coding help and you've been helping him
i personally am not surprised
cyber security, but no one asked about pore ole loognatsblocknet is straight up experience - it's the same route ephi went with rtb
i personally am not surprised
cyber security, but no one asked about pore ole loognatsblocknet is straight up experience - it's the same route ephi went with rtb
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Games / Re: NetHack
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Games / Re: Stealth Inc. 2 is free on Humble Bundle
« on: August 29, 2015, 04:37:52 PM »
oh yeah, i forgot about the menus in my rant yesterday
you know how in legend of zelda on the n64 how you pause and use the shoulder buttons and stuff to change the screen of the menu to map and stuff? yeah, they did that here, except it's tab. just tab. so once you pick up your first cosmetic item and the map tool, you have 3 menus to toggle through. they were afraid of adding extra keybinds or something, so they didn't add a map keybind (like in metroid? which this game is also trying to emulate)
you know how in legend of zelda on the n64 how you pause and use the shoulder buttons and stuff to change the screen of the menu to map and stuff? yeah, they did that here, except it's tab. just tab. so once you pick up your first cosmetic item and the map tool, you have 3 menus to toggle through. they were afraid of adding extra keybinds or something, so they didn't add a map keybind (like in metroid? which this game is also trying to emulate)
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Games / Re: Counter Strike: Global Offensive Thread v2 - OP by KelBlock
« on: August 29, 2015, 03:15:45 AM »i stiLL CAN'T BEfacedesking in the backgroundLIEVE THAT CS GO DID THIS TO MEwhat? the cooldown? everyone gets those until you get the 10 wins. then you're good to go unless you get banned for being an asshat.
ALL I DID WAS MAKE A NEW FRIEND AND HAVE A HORRIBLE KDR
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Games / Re: Stealth Inc. 2 is free on Humble Bundle
« on: August 29, 2015, 03:09:06 AM »
yes, the only reason i say get this game is because it's 100% free. do not buy it, it isn't worth 0.99c. it's not hard, it's just punishing for no reason.
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Games / Re: Stealth Inc. 2 is free on Humble Bundle
« on: August 29, 2015, 02:59:32 AM »
200mb download for me on windows 64bit. should be similar. don't know about install size.
this game is dumb
it's a 2d platformer where you play as a "clone" in a facility that makes and studies these clones like test subjects. you'll frequently come across other clones in sort of cryogenic tanks, and you'll frequently beat some of the test chambers with the assistance of ai controlled clones. you're guided by a sadistic human who just wants to get the high score in testing.
sound familiar? like portal? yeah.except there's no portals oh wait no there is. stuffty portals, which you can't move - teleporters, really. there's lots of buttons on the walls, and little cleaner bots on the floors, both of which you cannot interact with and do not do anything useful. there are "stealth" mechanics in the game, which amount to "visible" and "not visible" (with complete invisibility in darkness?) and what i affectionately refer to as "bullstuff sensors" which detect you if you're in their radius, regardless of if you're moving or not. laser turrets have about 3 ranges - visible range, bullstuff sensor range, and "instant gib" range. visible range shows clear indications of the weapon locking onto you, bullstuff sensor is just a tad longer than visible range, and instant gib is exactly as it says on the tin. don't fall! after a dozen or so levels, they add in sort of pressure sensitive blocks, which blow up if you hit them too fast. i guess. they didn't blow up when i thought they would, and blew up when i thought they wouldn't.
okay, whatever, that's the plot and the theme, no big deal, right? except the level design is designed by sadistic forgeters. right at the start of the game they tell you flat out that you need to "keep your reflexes up". the meaning of this isn't made clear until literally the next couple loving scenes, where they throw offscreen stuff at you and you have to dodge it or die, like a quicktime event with less than a quarter of second to push the button. there's no lives fortunately, only deaths, and checkpoints are just a little less ubiquitous than in super meat boy, so it isn't really punishing to die, but you still have to die because of straight up bonafide bullstuff. regularly. stuff offscreen will regularly come at you and crush you. seriously, this happened in 6/10 levels i played! what the forget! IT LITERALLY HAPPENS IN THE FIRST OFFICIAL "TEST CHAMBER." Like no loving joke! You're there, you've "hacked the terminal" and the door is off to your left. roughly 100ms after you hack the terminal and the door opens, a loving laser appears just to the left of the terminal, and slices you in two because you've already started to move toward the door. it's punishing you for being a normal person! not like loving antichamber which tries to reprogram you out of your thoughts on how a game 'should be' but straight up loving punishing you!
another of the mechanics, steam, (steam, not smoke) makes it so visual enemies (with fairly clear visual fields, thank god) can't see you if there's even the slightest speck of steam is within their field of view. this is fortunate because you'll be hell loving bent to get this loving steam to get into their loving fields of vision without it loving fading out of the way.
to top it all off, the test chambers have a loving grading system for how well you did. you know, like the stars in angry birds? just a standard alphabetical grade - a -> b -> c -> d, etc. except that holy stuff is it hard to get grades above c! i'm not that bad at platformers, but you lose a whole letter for dying once (remember the offscreen bullstuff?) and several letters for taking too long in the level! your ninja clone (basically shorter, more humanoid minions) runs at the speed of a minion on pure thc, (that is to say, slower than molasses in a russian winter) jumping is slow, and climbing ledges feels like i'm fat as stuff and not like a loving ninja leaping around. fits with the character model, at least, i guess.
oh, and it has loving cosmetic items which you get from breifcases. i don't loving know why, since you can't play multiplayer or anything.
it's not a steam key either, it's one of those weird limbo games that you have to manually add to steam. not a big deal, but more like one square inch of missing icing on the offscreen bullstuff filled cake.
the bottom line? right here:
stealth inc. 2 is stealth done wrong, go play something better like mark of the ninja. go ahead and download it, but only because it's 100% free, but if it feels like you're not really enjoying it, don't feel bad about stopping playing.
this game is dumb
it's a 2d platformer where you play as a "clone" in a facility that makes and studies these clones like test subjects. you'll frequently come across other clones in sort of cryogenic tanks, and you'll frequently beat some of the test chambers with the assistance of ai controlled clones. you're guided by a sadistic human who just wants to get the high score in testing.
sound familiar? like portal? yeah.
okay, whatever, that's the plot and the theme, no big deal, right? except the level design is designed by sadistic forgeters. right at the start of the game they tell you flat out that you need to "keep your reflexes up". the meaning of this isn't made clear until literally the next couple loving scenes, where they throw offscreen stuff at you and you have to dodge it or die, like a quicktime event with less than a quarter of second to push the button. there's no lives fortunately, only deaths, and checkpoints are just a little less ubiquitous than in super meat boy, so it isn't really punishing to die, but you still have to die because of straight up bonafide bullstuff. regularly. stuff offscreen will regularly come at you and crush you. seriously, this happened in 6/10 levels i played! what the forget! IT LITERALLY HAPPENS IN THE FIRST OFFICIAL "TEST CHAMBER." Like no loving joke! You're there, you've "hacked the terminal" and the door is off to your left. roughly 100ms after you hack the terminal and the door opens, a loving laser appears just to the left of the terminal, and slices you in two because you've already started to move toward the door. it's punishing you for being a normal person! not like loving antichamber which tries to reprogram you out of your thoughts on how a game 'should be' but straight up loving punishing you!
another of the mechanics, steam, (steam, not smoke) makes it so visual enemies (with fairly clear visual fields, thank god) can't see you if there's even the slightest speck of steam is within their field of view. this is fortunate because you'll be hell loving bent to get this loving steam to get into their loving fields of vision without it loving fading out of the way.
to top it all off, the test chambers have a loving grading system for how well you did. you know, like the stars in angry birds? just a standard alphabetical grade - a -> b -> c -> d, etc. except that holy stuff is it hard to get grades above c! i'm not that bad at platformers, but you lose a whole letter for dying once (remember the offscreen bullstuff?) and several letters for taking too long in the level! your ninja clone (basically shorter, more humanoid minions) runs at the speed of a minion on pure thc, (that is to say, slower than molasses in a russian winter) jumping is slow, and climbing ledges feels like i'm fat as stuff and not like a loving ninja leaping around. fits with the character model, at least, i guess.
oh, and it has loving cosmetic items which you get from breifcases. i don't loving know why, since you can't play multiplayer or anything.
it's not a steam key either, it's one of those weird limbo games that you have to manually add to steam. not a big deal, but more like one square inch of missing icing on the offscreen bullstuff filled cake.
the bottom line? right here:
stealth inc. 2 is stealth done wrong, go play something better like mark of the ninja. go ahead and download it, but only because it's 100% free, but if it feels like you're not really enjoying it, don't feel bad about stopping playing.
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Games / Re: Counter Strike: Global Offensive Thread v2 - OP by KelBlock
« on: August 26, 2015, 05:22:25 PM »my brother ranked up to rank 4 within a week. i ranked up to rank 2 within two weeks.different ranks
the ranks you're referring to are this new thing valve added which basically boils down to "xp" and stuff and is basically useless, and has no bearing on the game
the ranks gojira is talking about are matchmaking ranks, which uses valves sort-of proprietary ranking system (like elo with league of legends). it has an effect on who you're matched with when you play competitive. you need to win 10 competitive games to get your matchmaking rank.
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Modification Help / Re: Reached bottomprint character limit
« on: August 26, 2015, 04:33:42 PM »You can use a tagged string to reduce the amount of data that must be sent every time.never understood exactly how
examples? mods that use them properly?
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Games / Re: Counter Strike: Global Offensive Thread v2 - OP by KelBlock
« on: August 25, 2015, 07:27:04 PM »does anyone else get a problem in CS where they get really bad lag "stutters"?what is your framerate doing when you have this problem?
like, ill be walking around find, but then ill stutter and i wont be able to get thru a doorway or a guy will teleport in front of me, or ill turn a corner and nobody will be there and i'll die. my friends spectating me tell me it looks like im lag switching, but obvious im not. my ping seems to stay pretty stable when it's happening too, even lower than average (20~ ping)
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General Discussion / Re: Longest football throw?
« on: August 23, 2015, 08:04:27 PM »
longest distance is obviously a 45 degree angle, like literally everything else in physics
then you can make it longer with height differentials
then you can make it longer with height differentials
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General Discussion / Re: hosting multiple servers using greek2me's dedicated server script
« on: August 22, 2015, 10:07:48 PM »
wtf greek i could've sworn i told you that you fix this issue with xvfb-run -a
it makes xvfb attach to a different port or some mumbo jumbo
it makes xvfb attach to a different port or some mumbo jumbo
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Help / Re: Is BL TCP or UDP?
« on: August 14, 2015, 09:18:25 PM »
Close - give us a screenshot of where it gives you the option of FTP, DirectX, and IRC.
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General Discussion / Re: Possible Malicious Code in Blockland.
« on: August 11, 2015, 11:30:00 PM »
because rationally
malicious programs must write their code to the console
otherwise it is not a real malicious program
/r/itsaunixsystem
malicious programs must write their code to the console
otherwise it is not a real malicious program
/r/itsaunixsystem
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Modification Help / Re: Add-on Forcer
« on: August 10, 2015, 01:48:18 AM »
also don't allow superadmins to use this
that literally turns nearly any means of writing arbitrary files to the server into a potential script injection point - just write code to the file, then exec said file
it doesn't have to be an add-on
yeah, it could be useful, but no, don't do it
that literally turns nearly any means of writing arbitrary files to the server into a potential script injection point - just write code to the file, then exec said file
it doesn't have to be an add-on
yeah, it could be useful, but no, don't do it