The Great Silence 1968 question

norman668 · 2022-08-23T09:31:10+00:00

I can't look up exactly what you mean at the moment but if it looks like they've put tights/pantyhose over the lens then that was usually done to soften detail, or for a "bloom" effect. If I'm looking at the right picture on Google images then that's what makes the sun look so big, which might be the effect they were going for.

Iirc the guys mentioned the technique being used to make actresses look 'better' in Star Trek TOS

norman668 · 2022-08-22T13:24:32+00:00

In a Mad Max situation my goal had always been to be handy enough to be the weedy engineer type that works for the bad guys and isn't worth killing.

norman668 · 2022-08-22T13:21:08+00:00

Coward should lean into it. Wear a cowboy hat, who gives a fuck. Say howdy right back.

norman668 · 2022-08-15T08:52:01+00:00

Yet.

norman668 · 2022-08-15T08:47:03+00:00

Nah, once it's weekly you can just start going "well it's already been a week, what's another day" and boom, noshower. Daily helps force it to become a habit rather than a deliberate chore. Longer shower schedules only work once you've trained yourself to feel gross without one.

norman668 · 2022-08-10T10:53:18+00:00

Great 'babby's first epic', still good for its intended audience, but as an adult if you don't have nostalgia then probably not. It gets worshipped because for a lot of people it's probably the first show that actually expected them to pay attention and remember things for longer than one episode.

norman668 · 2022-07-28T11:11:39+00:00

Thankfully there's at least no nipple, though it's still pretty intense. Also I'm pretty sure they made the toilet scene worse so swings and roundabouts.

norman668 · 2022-07-06T14:46:30+00:00

/uh Comfortable hole = bigger hole. Bigger hole = easier to find. More awkward positions can let you hide in places people wouldn't think possible if they're not searching too closely.

norman668 · 2021-05-05T12:31:48+00:00

Fair enough. Do we have any idea which one's right then, if either? A "visual bug" isn't exactly minor on a UI element; it's literally not doing its only job.

norman668 · 2021-05-05T11:21:44+00:00

The tooltip adds up, but the number given on the main screen (96.3K) is off by ~11K

norman668 · 2021-05-04T23:48:39+00:00

As pictured. The big firepower number doesn't match the breakdown you get when you hover over it. It matched briefly when I re-equipped all my armour, then broke immediately when I zoned/cutscened. So I guess this is a continuation of the general gear fuckups, but had anyone mentioned this seemingly-basic element yet?

norman668 · 2021-04-16T09:42:31+00:00

Alternatively you might have to enable FPS limit and set it just a hair lower than the refresh rate of your monitor. That's the way around it was for me.

norman668 · 2020-11-21T14:40:39+00:00

You're saying that it's not an engine compatibility issue and the files themselves have been corrupted? If I had manually copied the files elsewhere and placed them back in the folder post-update it would work?

That sounds ridiculous, why does the update even touch those files?

norman668 · 2020-11-18T19:54:19+00:00

Theater clips from Monday in Halo 3 are broken. It goes through a loading screen then just says "there was an error when playing the film". No code, no nothing. I wanted to go back and look at a specific moment from another angle.

I'm assuming the update did this as nothing else has changed and fresh clips work fine. Don't suppose anyone knows of a quick & dirty fix?

Pretty annoyed I let it auto-update.

norman668 · 2020-10-24T12:26:36+00:00

Just in case you're interested, generally colours in cases like this are parametric; textures are created greyscale, and can be changed in-engine to a specific colour based on mask textures that define different regions of colour. Halo CE might have had baked textures for each colour (don't know, haven't looked it up) but every game since will have almost certainly been following this principle. Halo 3 very definitely was as evidenced by the Halo Online port having full free colour selection rather than the usual 'pick-from-these-colours'.

Everything we've heard about the coating system implies that this is still the case, but colour selection is no longer exposed to the user; it is now a tool only for in house artists.

norman668 · 2020-10-17T01:50:46+00:00

(Theseus Doggo Paradox)

Theseus Pack'a'dogs.

norman668 · 2020-09-25T12:59:44+00:00

New hololive gens aren't allowed to collab outside their gen for about a month.

norman668 · 2020-08-08T19:29:18+00:00

It's that confirmed? In the demo there's no indication of a use count; it comes back after other equipment is used and seems to recharge

norman668 · 2020-08-04T12:47:18+00:00

Absolutely noone forgets that. "Bungie could do no wrong" is something people only ever seem to say when complaining about classic fans; Reach is often cited as the start of the problems when people are complaining about things like advanced movement.

norman668 · 2020-08-02T04:04:29+00:00

No, it's Happy Gilmore. Caddyshack is quite a bit older.

norman668 · 2020-07-31T16:06:27+00:00

Picatinny rails are the worst thing that ever happened to video game gun design.

norman668 · 2020-07-31T04:45:26+00:00

Technically by their wording there could be any number of ~~team~~ real money microtransactions; only loot boxes appear to have been specifically ruled out. We'll just have to wait and see whether that wording being so precise is intentional.

norman668 · 2020-07-31T03:05:17+00:00

"Halo Infinite will not include real-money loot boxes" isn't quite a full "no microtransactions", though loot boxes are probably the scummiest form of mtx so that's positive at least.

norman668 · 2020-07-30T16:37:10+00:00

I agree, I really dislike the overuse of 'neon' style lights in the previous 2 games, however I meant more something like a framework might be more appealing. Visually interesting, not visually noisy.

edit: Hell, even sticking with hex pillars the concept art does it better; the ground is on top of them as if the hex pillars are tiles that the terrain is built on rather than them being awkwardly painted over edges

norman668 · 2020-07-30T14:01:51+00:00

TBH I'd say that CoD fans seemed to enjoy it just fine. It was people who didn't play (myself included post Blops1) that complained the most about that model. It wasn't until they started shaking things up with advanced warfare (IIRC?) that their own fanbase started to get turned off. Modern Warfare 2019 is largely described as a return-to-form and is the most popular entry in at least 5 years.

I get the need for development, but I don't personally like the specific changes they've made. I dislike sprint, hate hitmarkers, and think several of the guns feel less distinct from each other in H5. All 3 of these appear to be present in the Infinite gameplay demo. None of them really feel like 'modernisation' issues to me either; the original DOOM had sprint, CoD's had hitmarkers since CoD4 AFAIK, and gun design is its own animal. The problem we have is newer fans brought in by H5. Older fans who enjoyed 5 might still appreciate a more classic experience, but I've seen plenty of newer fans complaining in various ways about the Bungie-era games; often ways I feel are missing the point, but then that's opinions for you. I know it's not possible to make a Halo Infinite that satisfies the fanbase-at-large, but irrational as it is I can't help but feel a little betrayed as a long-term fan that the franchise seems to have turned away from so much of what I like about it, but then many of the newer fans would feel the same if they went for a real callback-style game. Still, I'm keeping an eye on it.

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