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@Kroc@oldbytes.space Holy macaroni. That's an insane level of attention to detail. Positively insane.
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mastodon 4.7.2"I drive. That's what I do. That's all I do."
—Driver in "Drive"
"Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife—chopping off what's incomplete and saying, 'Now, it's complete because it's ended here.'"
—Muad'Dib in "Dune"
"I'm among no one."
—Lone Man in "The Limits of Control"
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@jonathanreed@techhub.social @BenRiceM@mastodon.social They've been bombarding me with trailers before shows in April. I was afraid it's gonna go like that for the rest of the year, but they dropped it. It will probably return a couple of times before December.
I read that the AI companies buy old books and scan them while destroying in the process. So, rare books are now disappearing irreversibly, because they will be accessible only through AI slop that was produced with them. This saddens me gravely. At the same time, I cannot do anything about it. Which further overwhelms me.
(They destroy books because it's faster like that. There is no intent, but this doesn't change how I feel. On some levels, it's even worse. But on others, equally evil.)
I started "DoroHedoro" from the scratch, and now, six years later, after seeing many animes in the meantime, I am enamoured with the visual style.
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@rajmund@mastodon.com.pl Wait, Mark Morgan zrobił muzykę do "Fallouta"? :D Do dziś słucham jego muzyki z "Planescape: Torment", bo kupiłem jakieś wydanie deluxe i było CD dołączone. Zresztą grę też mam, bo jakimś cudem przetrwała wszystkie moje zawieruchy.
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@yvanspijk Polish has "fabryka," which is a factory. Somehow, I never mixed up "fabric" and "fabryka;" I guess because of the "a" at the end.
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@rajmund@mastodon.com.pl "Fallouta 2" miałem na CD z "CD Action". Kupiłem go, siadłem do niego, grałem przez 11 godzin ciurkiem (wakacje były) i nigdy więcej już do niego nie zasiadłem, tak przesadziłem. Rozbawiło mnie, że mi nie szedł jakiś quest, więc ruszyłem w losowym kierunku i doszedłem do kolejnego miasta. Był to jedyny Fallout, jakiego zagrałem w życiu.
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@rajmund@mastodon.com.pl There can be only one.
Inna sprawa, że jest "Witchhaven", a nie ma "Hexena", a na niego chętnie bym oddał głos; szczególnie, że remaster taki solidny. Ale spoko, zawsze będzie ktoś z bólem dupy, że nie ma jego gry. Taka natura plebiscytów.
(Jak będę miał handheld, który się da podpiąć do telewizora, to planuję szarpnąć się na "ChronoTrigger", nawiasem mówiąc.)
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And one more thing: William Baldwin's character is like an early take on Patrick Bateman, albeit less psychopatic; but there is something in his aura that fits Christian Bale's depiction. Which is to say that the cinematic American Psycho did not come from nowhere.
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But maybe I'm wrong. I realised later that one of the commercials were for a "One Piece" game for PlayStation 4, which wouldn't make sense now, so they might have been playing old commercials.
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The top-down variant of gameplay has three modes of shooting: you can shoot as you run, stand and direct fire in 8 directions, or, and this is new here, you can lock the direction of shooting and move like that. The last mode is a really good design; and blessing, compared to "The Chaos Engine." Oh, how the game would be more manageable if I could run through levels like that.
And, of course, you can throw grenades, too, though I don't use them that much.
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The first level is set in 1996, and it introduces all the important stuff, including sliding on a zip line and using a rope for bungee jumping (and you can kill yourself if you don't land properly). It's fast paced, and you can die easily, though John Spartan can take considerable amount of damage (looking at ya, "The Chaos Engine!").
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@jalefkowit@hachyderm.io That's how I roll at work. I explain it with a sponge. See, I say, a sponge can absorb only as much water. After that, no more capacity.
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@nixCraft@mastodon.social To be honest, I don't understand this ban on certain apps. As a user, I would like to decide. It probably doesn't make sense to open a website there, so the format of the phone would solve that. It's not like a browser user buys this phone by accident or something, and feels cheated. But the direction is interesting.
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@rajmund@mastodon.com.pl Ale to bym chętnie zagrał: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0Wv6kkloCU
2.5D to moja ulubiona estetyka w grach.
Fallout: Bakersfield Extended Gameplay Footage
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Upon my return, I found out that the third option in the menu explains game mechanics, which turned out to be useful. John Spartan can run and shoot or you can stand shooting, an interesting distinction; then, you can throw some grenades. There is some amount of platforming.
The pixel art is beautiful and works really well on a 3.5-inch screen. There is Stallone's likeness in the menu, but later it's gone. It's pretty much in line with how these games were done back then.
There are a couple of movies that I saw in just the right moment of my life to like them more than their quality would justify this. Kind of fascinating. We know there is no objective way to rank movies, because a lot depends on the viewer, but it's not only person-dependent but also time.
GOG is coming to Linux, and I might try it on my work laptop.
"Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock."
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In which case, I had a rightful amount of nostalgia. Not that I miss the old days, but the old days it reminded me, irregardless; the days when I was younger and the world seemed simpler (plot twist: it wasn't).
As IT support at my company, I am often a password manager to the people I support. They keep losing them all the time.
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The story is based on Ira Levine's book, albeit apparently butchered, and very much like his "Rosemary's Baby," it has the action set in an apartment building. We joked with my wife that it must be his thing, but it might be just that these two books have this in common.
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@sraars@hippodon.com @briankrebs@infosec.exchange This brings fond memories of "Black Adder."
For reasons that are not important now, I have avoided Spider-Man movies for years. Decades even. I made an exception for 2012 and 2014 movies. And then there were MCU movies where he guest-starred. But generally, I was in the dark. This changed this week, because my daughter asked me to take her for the newest one to cinema, and I decided that I don't wanna go blindly.
Hence, the thread.
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The funny thing about the top-down level, compared to "The Chaos Engine," is that at first, I didn't like small characters, but pretty soon, I realised that it gives me more room to manoeuvre and just see incoming mooks. The size brought pleasant memories of "Cannon Fodder," which I am planning to play at some point, too.
And now I'm learning that the song is not originally from Leonard Cohen; he merely covered it, albeit good.
I think a Polish saying "choćby skały srały i pierdziały" ("even if rocks were shitting and farting," meaning it's not gonna happen, no matter what) could catch up in other languages.
When I eat too much bread/flour, I get pissed off easily. In the recent weeks, it seemed that I was able to eat more and more, with no usual effects. But today, it hit me like a fucking juggernaut, and I'm cursing at the computer. :D So, a break from bread now.
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@crankylinuxuser@infosec.exchange @catsalad@infosec.exchange Beware of the tranquil ones.
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@rajmund Rankingi to konkursy popularności, więc nie ma się co strzępić. Niemniej całkowity brak tych pozycji zadziwił. Ale też RPG ma spory rozrzut. Pewnie żadnego tekstowego roguelike też nie ma na liście! :D
No nic, oddałem głos na jedyną słuszną opcję i zobaczymy, jak pójdzie.
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Level 3 is again a platformer.
Both first two levels end up with encounter with Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes), the antagonist and arch-nemesis of John Spartan. Each time you win, he escapes, like a cartoon villain. I wonder if all the levels will be like that. In the defence of this, though, each encounter plays out a differently: level 1 had running away from exploding barrels, level 2 — a shooting battle; level 3 I played only once and died, and I don't remember how it was.
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To be continued. Maybe. But it's a good game to play for 20 minutes in the evening. RetroArch allows me to save the state, and the game itself has never-ending continues, so when you die, you may try again, and again, until you succeed.
Once again, I cannot stop wondering how people played those games with D-pad alone. While side-scrolling part is fine, in the top-down section, I had to switch to the analog stick. Kudos, people of the past.
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@rajmund@mastodon.com.pl Rozumiem też, że Zelda + Souls-like wpadły w kategorię Action Adventure.
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And speaking of "The Chaos Engine," to my surprise, level 2 turned out to be a top-down shooter. At first, I was not pleased, but when I learned the mechanics (for a change, not explained in menu), it became fun. The key part is in the title: you're Demolition Man, which moniker was earned by destroying everything in the process of enforcing the law. So, you just shoot your way through the level. Luckily, hostages that we have to free are immune to our bullets.