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Nuky wrote:Kids, kids. Calm down. Flaming is illegal in the states

Haha! Nice one!

Except I live in good ol' New York, where it's not only leagel - it's fashionable! They make us hetros wish we were gay.

Waaahooo! Take that homophobes!

Tell me... What does wannabe gayness in New York have to do with flaming?

Ovaltine wrote:Well I might ask what you, someone well over 30, are doing in a video game forum trying to burn little kids?

When I saw this the first thing I did was walk over to Jeff and tell him to look at this thread. So where do you get the idea that I am "someone well over 30," cuz thats definelty what you said, and it is definetly not true. Next time you try saying anything make sure it is true, or atleast not distinclty false.

To display approximatley my age I will quote the "What were your first games you played?" thread.

bob wrote:The first game I remember playing was... well I cant remember that very well (and it was probably 15 years ago) ... this game I played at school in 1st grade...

So now doing a little math. In first grade you are 6 or 7. That was about 15 years ago (actually 13 years ago). So I am going to ad 6 or 7 to 13. This means I am 19 or 20. If you believe that was 15 years ago since I said that in an attempt to have rounder numbers, then I am 21 or 22. So how is "well over 30" equal to either of these ages. The oldest I could feasibly be by readng that thread is 22, nowhere near well over 30.

ok I feel bad being involved in a flame war, I appreciate this game too much. In the spirit of being "Punched into orbit?!"
I was playing Lugaru between studying for a midterm. I looked away for a second to talk to a friend in my room. During this time a wolf came over to me and launched me into orbit, I came back down and landed, dying on impact. The part that makes this sotry unique is that I landed on a rabbit (not involved in punching me into orbit) and got a "death from above".

Oops, my bad. See, the topic of your thread was "Do you Remember Computers before the Internet?". Unless I'm wrong, the internet was invented in the 70s, no? So chya, I just sortof assumed you must have been born a signifigant amount of time before that decade. That's not an unreasonable assumption, right?

I would like to sincerely agree that 20 is a perfectly appropriate age to be flaming. Keeping this in mind, I accept that I have been served.

I would also like to point out that, at least in my (younger) generation, "your mom" jokes are considered ironic and have no real insult-value.

But come on man, did you really expect me to figure all that stuff out? I'm so lazy, I prazed the new Lugaru update because it has different default settings.

PS: Nuky, when you said "Flaming is illeagle in the states", I thought you were reffering to anti-homosexual laws, "Flamer" being a derogitory term for a gay person.

Ahhh, right

Hey, I read Oveltine's 20 foot rabit o doom map thing, but which map is it, what do you mean "all blue"? for me all the map files are text files.

Hey what is that 20 foot Rabbit of Doom thing? I can't even remember that happening, my memories must be shunt or something.

And where did that dude go? He was very funny because he acts so different from people I'm used to. Hey Silb, you live in New York (Jack does at least, how's it going in China?), do you meet this kind of person regularily, is it a New Yorker (/east coast) thing?

Reviving this looooooong dead topic, I almost got punched into orbit but my first reaction to hitting a wall is pressing space and the hit was a killing blow. I could only tell by the sheer speed I went up before I managed to get the space button

I've gotten into orbit a number of times:
* Punched/kicked/reversed by two or more wolves/bunnies at a time: sometimes I die in the air, sometimes I can recover and land safely, sometimes I recover but I'm too high and ragdoll to my death.
* Killed in a number of ways (seems to involve reversals) and fly upwards, dead. I refer to this as "dying and going to heaven." No control over the body or camera, dimmed vision, etc. Never see a bright white tunnel tho. Eventually I get reload.
* Colliding with one or more foes, usually in mid-air, sometimes when they're unconcious.

Effects are dramatically increased in slo-mo and super-slo-mo. In SSM you often end up flying so high you might as well reload yourself, 'cuz you ain't comin' down. The only way you even know you're moving is wind noise, and as levbot pointed out above, when you're that high the only way to know which direction you're going is to be on fire and watch the flames.

Silb wrote:Reminds me how sometimes new levels load with the ground slightly higher or lower than it should be by a few inches, or the bunnies begin crouched and immediatly get up. All quite weird.

The ground seems to have two levels; I've noticed it in Challenge 4 when the sand is a different height up the side of the first block. The higher level only loads once in while, but it's always the same height when it does.

Also, on the surface of the Rocky Hall, where I (and NickD) discovered a chimney into the attic, another chimney opens up occasionally. It's a spot you can ragdoll into when it's normal (with difficulty) but when it loads different, you can slide right down.

As for the crouching bunnies, it seems like the scenes load with the characters in it actually dropping to the ground. Sometimes they seem to hit harder, and crouch.

You also notice that sleeping, sitting or dead characters start out standing, then drop to their final position. This happens when T confronts Aspen at the Raider Base, and when he returns to find Jack gone. April and Jack also sit down from a standing position.

T also seems to begin the scene in the group of characters, then is transported to the location of his first dialogue (sometimes internal). It's weird to see him start out standing with the three wolves that are waiting for him as he travels to find Alpha.

You can even interact with them at that time; sometimes you collide, and they go flying, or you can pop their heads if you're fast with the I button.

I suppose these are all part of the dialogue editing and map building process. Again, all these effects are increased by slo-mo. To see more of the opening scene weirdness, while in slo-mo, hold down the V key during scene changes; it'll freeze the action.

I've got a number of weird screens of these things.

lpod100 wrote: sometimes for me the textures wrap weird. theres just a bunch of lines on the models... anybody else get that?

I have some screens of a game where T had some beautiful patterns, then changed colors with each scene: no textures, just interesting colors. No idea what caused it.