Lu 

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    Who is claiming censorship here though? Because I think most all of us that have talked about the game here are pretty aware of the difference between Valve refusing to sell it and actual censorship (which I'm pretty sure no one here is advocating for). 
     
    Am I an outlier in that the things in Hatred don't really perturb me? Looking past the shock value all I see is an uninteresting shooting game. Postal already did all that stuff and that was shit too. But who knows, maybe it can be a cathartic experience for some douchey misanthropic teen...
     
     

     

    That opening paragraph of this article pretty much nails it for me: "Hatred is the most controversial game of the moment, following in the footsteps of games like Night Trap, Postal, Super Columbine Massacre, Hooligans: Storm Over Gift 3, and many other much decried titles that nobody gave two shits about after release because they turned out to be completely irrelevant. For now though, it’s achieved the media firestorm it wants, sucking everyone from Valve to people who should know better into asking what it says and means for the gaming industry… which is of course precisely nothing, except that publicly accessible tools and distribution methods mean that arseholes can make games too. So, y’know, shock revelation there."

     

    Great article. Funny stuff.  :grin: 

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    I'm kind of with Spenny and Lacabra at the moment. I think the noise in general is hugely distracting from your actual work. With noise I mean the constant movement of the entire screen. My eyes go all over the place. If I ignore the instructions and just use the mouse, I still end up with a horizontal scroll bar somewhere in my screen which looks a little messy? When deciding to scroll back up to the categories, I was initially rather confused when it just kept going until I noticed the loop.

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    Alright, tomorrow we're going to revisit Bionic Commando. Just as a heads up, you will need Hamachi as we'll be playing on a simulated LAN, since the master server is no longer around. As always, we meet on our Mumble channel!

     

    In hamachi you need to go to 'Network > Join existing network' and connect to the following:

     

    (Case and space sensitive:)

    Idle Ham 1

    Idle Ham 2

    Idle Ham 3

     

    Password for all 3 of these: games

     

    If you cannot join 1, then it's full, so join 2 and so on. Let me know if you have any problems.

  9. Posted

    Alright, tomorrow we're going to revisit Bionic Commando. Just as a heads up, you will need Hamachi as we'll be playing on a simulated LAN, since the master server is no longer around. As always, we meet on our Mumble channel!

     

    In hamachi you need to go to 'Network > Join existing network' and connect to the following:

     

    (Case and space sensitive:)

    Idle Ham 1

    Idle Ham 2

    Idle Ham 3

     

    Password for all 3 of these: games

     

    If you cannot join 1, then it's full, so join 2 and so on. Let me know if you have any problems.

  11. Posted

    My top games of the year:

     

    Legend of Grimrock II: All 'round amazing successor to an already great game. It addresses pretty much all the issues I had with the first one, mainly where everything kind of looks the same. Grimrock 2 makes up for that with amazing variety and wonderful puzzle design.

     

    The Vanishing of Ethan Carter: Such a well realized world that I loved being in. The game had a nice way of making beautiful natural landscapes feel ominous. It stuck with me in a way that most other games this years have not.

     

    The Wolf Among Us: Aside from my minor gripe that it kind of does the same thing The Walking Dead does at the end of the season, I thoroughly enjoyed this.

     

    Escape Goat 2: Yea, really! A really good puzzler. It's great.

     

    Wolfenstein: The New Order: Can't tell you how much I missed a good shooter in my life. Pretty amazed what they managed to do with Wolfenstein of all things.

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    That was a lot of fun! We did some Deathmatch and eventually got a 3 on 3 CTF match going. Team Red was rad and Team Blue were terrible human beings, but I had fun regardless.
     
     
     
    A new game has been rolled and it iiiiiis:
     

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    "Community maintained fork of voxel based Minecraft-meets-Battlefield game Ace of Spades. Up to 32 players per server. Alternatively, the OpenSpades clone runs across Windows Mac and Linux."[/size]

     

    It's a free download!