Yeah fair play. Mad respect to the domestic and waste workers making the place looks half decent for everyone… but I can’t really hate on a guy for tidying shit into bags and selling them to people with more money than sense.

If it makes that corner of the world look a bit nicer for humans and animals alike… I can’t hate on it.

That trumpet fanfare on the TNG theme was a banger, no doubt about it.

In fairness - and I’m a massive id fanboy - the company that gave us quality games and trailblazing tech disappeared when they went to Zenimax.

The publishers admittedly treated them well at the start (Mick Gordon… less so), but this soulless bottom-line thinking was always going to hit them eventually.

Shame.

You’re right. Deaths under that policy would have been classed as a lawful killing, and I’ve noticed that I’ve changed the OPs question erroneously. Thank you.

The question should have read “murdered within seconds and without warning”.

That’s a list of deaths directly connected to police in the UK.

Where is the evidence to support the claim that they were killed within seconds and without warning?

When?

There’s very few people of a certain vintage who can’t remember hitting their chosen difficulty, watching the screen melt effect, and listening to the opening riff of E1M1 like it was yesterday.

For what it’s worth, Deep Into The Code is a banger. Civvie11’s Pro Doom opening ident captured the spirit of it wonderfully.

Out of sheer interest, is it because the data was discredited or is there an ethics issue that kills a paper once it’s been cited?

Daikatana.

The first map was absolute mince, the colour tones were boring, the opening cinematics were long and tiresome, and even the whole first episode was a bit shit. The sidekicks were poorly coded and the last map was just a challenge map, especially with the game breaking bug at the end.

However…

The rest of the game was actually pretty good. The Greek episode was absolutely beautiful and excellently designed, the Norwegian episode was great fun and the soundtrack was wonderful, and the last episode was… decent, nothing great but nothing poor.

The patch fixed the bullshit sidekick pathfinding, the titular Daikatana made you feel like a fucking badass if you took the time to level it up, and the story was actually okay for the last three quarters of the game.

Moreover, if you like twitch multiplayer games - the multiplayer component is the closest to pure QuakeWorld I have ever experienced. Fast, unforgiving, great movement mechanics. It’s got a very high skill ceiling.

Unfortunately, the opening hour or four is massively substandard and sunk the entire game - John Romero’s name and the ill fated marketing campaign just made it easy fodder for people to shit on it.

Like Duke Nukem Forever, TimeShift, FEAR 2, or the Half Life expansions… it isn’t amazing… but it’s a competent FPS and does the job.

I remember when Quake Live introduced it, but it never really gained any traction.

A popular server-side mod for Counter-Strike (the 1.6 era) introduced in-map texture substitution for advertising as well… but I think it was pissed on by the community so much that it never saw widespread use.

Sounds like the time is right to try again.

Looks something fresh out of the Channelwood Age. Beautiful.

“great start, now go for the lead!” 🏁

I was reading the Careless People book about Meta.

One thing that stood out to me was the presentation of the tech early birds or the folk who dodged the dotcom bubble bursting - she specifically used the term “economically insensitive”. People who made their money from big tech’s initial offerings and their own shares going through the roof, being set up for life, and basically working for the love of the game.

It’s wild. If I’d gotten to the point where I’d paid off the mortgage and had enough in the buffer to catch any unexpected bills or travel costs or whatever, then yeah maybe I’d go geese farming or otter rehoming or llama cuddling or something.

pure dead mental down the Quay, so it is but

That second line sounds like a comedic Bond villain line.

And it’s awesome.

“knock knock”

“Who’s there”

“The interrupting cow”

“The interrupting cow wh…” “MOOOOOOO”

A dear friend with a neurodivergence explained her journal to me as cue cards for different places, emotions, and experiences she’d had.

Much like a great dream, most of the memories would turn to smoke without a written pointer of what it was she’d done that day.

It’s a daily list of reminders

Who’d have thought me being a tosser and replying to the wrong comment would spark such a theological debate!

It sounds like Guile’s special move for when someone’s royally pissed him off.

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