discussion Anti-Social & Lurker - Hideout spot

[ImN0tDon's iconImN0tDon]

How do people get Insider rank, and what privileges does it unlock?

Insiders is P6/Bug tester, don't really do much tbh. Looks like they got rid of it from the shop.

 

[Republican Bear]

How do people get Insider rank, and what privileges does it unlock?

It's a retired shop rank you use to buy. It allowed Early Access to updates to the site.

Looks like it's not needed and just a cosmetic banner now though.

 

[BrodyPresto]

And I just paid out a ton of coins, so I hope you all got some of them by engaging in the ways I've been telling you to!

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Yes, it's been good so far.


Some, yeah.

Wow, I don’t even bother liking most posts. I just like what I actually like and rack up coins. Such is the (happy) life of a slacker perv in the daily theme thread. You get spoiled (with coins) without much effort.

In a way, the daily theme thread is even more lurker-friendly than the anti-social lurker thread . You just do your daily likes and earn coins, no talking required.

 

[Ligthstardust]

i been reading about the coins and member system. and let me say its impressive kudos to whoever came up with it

 

[Peter]

Also Mods visit my profile I'm trying to collect all of you like Pokemon! Some of you are limited edition now...

How many do you have already?
I have five.
Can you beat that?

 

[Deleted member 213254]

This dude Axois has a fortunes worth of LC from this thread God damn

 

[Peter]

I'll add another for you.

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Now you have 6 staff on your profile.

That's awesome.

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You were truly one of the ones I was still missing.



Now I finally have one of the most special ones in my collection.



A truly unique model.



But I wish we could turn back time to get the ones that are sadly no longer available here.

 

[Deleted member 213254]

Nah. That's not much at all. Many users have hundreds of millions. A couple of users have billions.

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That's fucking crazy dude wow... I need their methods for mem+

 

[Deleted member 210808]

And I just paid out a ton of coins, so I hope you all got some of them by engaging in the ways I've been telling you to!

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Yes, it's been good so far.


Some, yeah.

We are running on the hamster wheel of coins

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That's fucking crazy dude wow... I need their methods for mem+

Whenever that kind of money is involved the secret is always insider trade.

 

[Twigless Leaf]

May I recommend FitGirl Repacks? She compresses games into sizes that people with limited bandwidth can actually manage. She also separates games into optional language packs, music, and even credit scenes, all of which you can opt out of downloading.

Be careful, though. There are fake sites that imitate FitGirl’s official site. I recommend checking FitGirl Subreddit to know which one is the real site.

It’s worth it, imo. Big games usually get cut in half, while smaller games are often reduced by about one-third.

Unless you don’t want to deal with piracy or cracks and prefer Steam achievements, then I guess it’s out of the question.

Normally I repack for myself. Do get rid off / add stuff I need. Strange, on the sites im browsing I didn't found FitGirlRepacks, but FTL, that always have really outdated repacks. Still thank you for the recommendation, someone will read and use it for sure.

I loved

I loved expedition 33

Another games on my list, even if I heard from this game barely two weeks ago.

I agree so much with this.

This is why I love what I love: old games and Minecraft.

I love seeing the creative ways developers of the past made in-game environments feel believable using just a handful of default low-poly models, whether through clever placement or programming tricks.

In Minecraft, it’s amazing how people build furniture and details out of blocks in ways you wouldn’t expect, combining them so they actually work.

The old isometric assembler games are crazy. Rollercoaster Tycoon is a prime example and enjoyable to this day.

Highly recommend crossdressing in Camelot if you are into traps.

"@highlrecommend crossdressing in Camelot" sounds like a very nice game.

Or, you know… just compress them. Absolute horror for modern developers.

For bigger studios time is the limiting factor, for smaller sudios it's even the knowledge that something like compression is existent besides webp and some sloppy "reduce quality" functions.
Our industrial customers don't have time to fix their "list of parts". Time = money. So we need to fix this list and lose time and money. To compensate this, we send also sloppy and unfixed "lists of parts" to our suppliers, so that they need to fix our lists and parts with their time and money. The problem is just rolling around in a circle, till it hits the private endcustomer that needs to pay the bill for all that bullshit.

Yeah, I wish games just had a English languages pack only language anyone really needs those other voice lines are just bloat.
Make them DLC and those who want it pay...I would support such idea

Localisations would be great, but how I mentioned above, someone needs to do it and set up the page/downloader, probably needs it to protect against "non-customers". That's again time and money investing in something that probably gives no return of investments.

in other news i walked into the room a second ago with my cat sitting at the computer. She says hi

Hello cat

Wait? So people have to pay for not being fluent in English? Hmm...

I agree with making them FREE DLC though.
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Yup, you got it .

Don't give them ideas.

Instead they could go back to the old installers that specifically asked which languages you wanted to install. You can then choose what you want. However, that's not the 'one click install' ease that a modern consumer expects, so instead they give you everything. It's also why a lot of games freak out if you try to move their directory or the save game locations; they weren't built with any level of user customization in mind.

But even if you have an installer, the files are still there and would bloat it, less but still.
Of course the best would be just the standalone game with checkmarks or downloadlinks to take what is needed (what if the server fot this goes offline in right about, when the sales drop enough?), but that would be a service. Don't even think about it!

Youtube indirectly gives you this service. I tried it with "The digital amazing circus" from glitch.
>download full episode in any language as mp4, mkv, ..
>Just download the mp3 / aac / m4a,.. in the additional languages you need.
>repeat with srt
>multiplex
>???
>profit

 

[0aaab1]

FMV = "Full motion video", old school game term for using video clips as part of game play.

Back in the 90s there were a bunch of "choose your own adventure" style games where you'd watch a video clip, make a choice, watch another video clip, get another choice, etc. Real easy to code, though the logistics of hiring a film crew and actors was a bit tough. The style mostly started to die out once graphics got past the pixel-y stage of things, and its now quite niche in the grand scheme of things.

Speaking of FMV - Nothing beats - Under A Killing Moon and Overseer. To a lesser degree Phantasmagoria from SIerra.


installers... my pet peve

Having games that include 10-30GiB of extra data for "localization" is ... really annoying.
At least with some titles through Battle.Net etc you can do a selective download of which optional content you need, It would've been nice if all games had this in their storefront.

I guess fitgirl is good when you want to save download size and dont mind waiting ages for the extraction. Even with scene releases I tend to just extract them manually directly to the target folder rather than run setup.exe or .w.e since so many installers are idiotic and extract all files first, then copy to the folder etc. or mess with registry/shortcuts and similar.

 

[Bone]

How many do you have already?
I have five.
Can you beat that?

Think it's at least 10. Some aren't Mods anymore and it only shows 10 out of 17.

 

[matsc123]

Speaking of FMV - Nothing beats - Under A Killing Moon and Overseer. To a lesser degree Phantasmagoria from SIerra.

Have you played any of the Tex Murphy reboot game? "Tesla Effect" is the name, its not bad.

There was also "Contradiction" a while back, which was a fun little fmv detective game. Great cast to it.

 

[Twigless Leaf]

Anyone got any good RPG Maker game recs on this site? :3

You're somewhere in the top league with you 1TB, hard to recommend something.
But still, some directions would be nice like tags.

Also, is your username a random input or a well hidden deeper meaning? I still have no idea how to call you outside if the direct replys.
@MattaMus11 gave me already a nickname with his philosophical rampage against greenery.

Only positive to the Ram prices is that maybe developers wont assume that gamers are going to upgrade their PCs every 3 years

This won't happen. Cloud computing will be pushed. Didn't Bezos said something about this recently?


"8 predictions for th world in 2030
1.
You'll own nothing.
And you'll be happy.
Whatever you want you'll rent
and it'll be delivered by drone.

WEF, 2017"

brb tinfoil hat needs readjustments.

 

[0aaab1]

Modern games are beyond bloated since devs arent restricted by jow much space there is on a disk anymore.

Or restricted by work ethics and pride in creating a quality product.

But I guess the customers and the companies they work for do not pay them to create quality anymore.

Worst example is probably the loading bug in GTA5 that went unfixed for 5+ years until a player found out what it was and fixed it, and the media attention forced them to fix it - eventually. All those shark cards didn't improve the game performance at all.

Have you played any of the Tex Murphy reboot game? "Tesla Effect" is the name, its not bad.

There was also "Contradiction" a while back, which was a fun little fmv detective game. Great cast to it.

Hmm, I think so but I might've confused it with something else. I'll google it.

Cheers for the headsup.

 

[Deleted member 213254]

We are running on the hamster wheel of coins

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Whenever that kind of money is involved the secret is always insider trade.

Once I get my first 100 I am immediately gambling that shit haha
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Yeah I have no idea how to play poker

 

[Peter]

I'll add another for you. Now you have 6 staff on your profile.

The number of profile views has increased by one, but you are not shown in the list.
So there is no proof that you were there; it could also have been someone else who had already been there before and revisited it.

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Do you have any idea what could be the reason for this?

 

[BrodyPresto]

Normally I repack for myself. Do get rid off / add stuff I need.

Someone’s tech-savvy! Do your relatives ever ask you to fix their adware-ridden computers?

 

[Twigless Leaf]

Someone’s tech-savvy! Do your relatives ever ask you to fix their adware-ridden computers?

Not nearly as tech-savvy as I wanted to be. I'm really glad to have a friend that dedicated his life to this. I pay him back with life time and manual labor. If I had to be gay, I would be gay for him and just for him. (Un)fortunaley he is happily engaged already.

I'm just a copy paste machine that turns tutorials into questionable code and human right violations, so nothing remarkable in adding/removing stuff. Mostly localizations, preinstalling mods, removing min/max values in sliders and adding files like cheat tables, walkthrough, ..

Also, every millenial is a link between gen x and gen z. That makes us automatically to tech supports for the younger and older. It was a fun day, after a trainee and my mother asked me the same question about wondering what these pesky "keybindings and shortcuts" are.

 

[matsc123]

Yeah I made the mistake of being "the computer guy" in my family, so many awkward phone calls from elderly relatives and cousins I barely knew existed.