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I'm not going to discuss the recent personal issues between members. Instead, I'm going to discuss a certain post. It's written informally for audiences who don't spend hours a day reading through encyclopedias and aspire to become verbally overwrought. I prefer this style of writing as it makes the article more interesting and personal. AAA developers/publishers like to play it safe. They are in business to make money, and they don't like spending money without some acknowledgement they will get a successful return. It's security, something natural to the human condition. Flashy visuals are eye candy that marketing drools over, and so do the "fans". The hype-train is what makes people want to spend that $50. Furthermore, there is no "lack of creativity". What there is happens to be a lack of respect for indie developers and the incredible effort they go through to produce interesting titles. No, they won't. That's like saying "People will realise McDonalds is making them fat, and they will stop buying it." They also offer limited controls, much less visibility due to the sheer amount of people trying to "cash-in" on the market, and much less credibility as far as "serious games" go. Getting bored of games =/= Short attention spans. People are viewing very predictable patterns in the games they play, and as such they either require deeper gameplay, or just more frequent bouts of stimuli, which only increases the problem. Saying "People want OK games" is essentially insulting the intelligence of everybody. I'm offended as a game developer. Please don't make such general, broad and insulting remarks when you're highly incorrect. You complained about poor writing skills from the article, and yet you could barely string the first sentence together? No, there is no majority of FPS games. They're more prominent in AAA titles because they have a marginally wider market-share, but the same people who play FPS games also play many, many other genres as well. The jolt of pleasure comes from success in a challenge, not from seeing the blood spurt out. Hand-holding is present in all genres. It's about trying to get newer players in the games easier, so they can attract a wider audience and make more money. It's based on a fallacy (that new gamers are idiots who can't learn things for themselves), but there's a twisted logic working there. Are you trying to impress people? You're assuming we've not played such games either. You're also assuming that every title in the eighties was of high standards. I can assure you, that's not the case. Back then, there were less resources to work with, so the player was forced to have a vivid imagination to compensate. These days, we've been given massive increases in resources, and as such we've yet to find the perfect way to balance it all. So you're saying: ALL Mobile Games don't feature quality gameplay Desktop/Console Games == Mobile Games People will automatically shift from Desktop/Consoles to Mobile, because they're going to be playing the same games anyway ?? Okay. Talking down to players is bad, because people assume you're a bit of a c*** for talking down to them. Developers talking to players...not always a good idea. It's good to gain perspective, but players lack the critical understanding that developers have and can frequently suggest things that would only harm the game. They're great with feedback as far as bugs and sometimes features, but you need to have a strong objective focus to be able to listen to them. You're making a lot of uninformed assumptions based on your own experiences; exactly what a younger me did. Unfortunately, that doesn't fly around here. Try again later.

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THAT'S WHY THEY STOPPED? BULLOCKS. I SAW THE IMAGES ON THE BACK TO BE A CHALLENGE, A PUZZLE THAT NEEDED TO BE SOLVED. I LOVED THOSE THINGS. I WAS SO TICKED OFF WHEN I BOUGHT MY FIRST SET IN YEARS AND THERE WERE NONE.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCFaCjj7q9Y

After many researches about how to use this easierly, you have right, I want a tool full open as possible, to use with any versions of games, etc... So I did the function "Mod Ready" different! I saw you did many tools on old Lego Games, if you want, it's possible to add this to my tool and have just one tool to edit all Lego Game ... Feel free to contact me! Hi, Sorry for this second post, I've many new things done! First, I rename my tool "TT Games Explorer" to have any problem of copyright... As you can see, the explorer is here, not really complete but it's works... After that, you can Double Click on a file, if a sub-tools exist, it's open the file... Like DAT/HDR or TXT CSV... I need to code too many things and I've any response so it's not very motivating, but this tool it's for me first . For the TXT/CSV, I need to update the Color Syntax who failed at certains times, and wrote the save function. (And update the Syntax Keywords by all them are present in files...) For the DAT/HDR, I need to modify the UI and do the Mod Ready function. After that, I try to preview the DDS files... Feel free to contact me for questions, ideas, etc...

TT Games Explorer: This tool allow you to extract and modify file of the LEGO Traveller's Tales Games. //New Screenshots coming... Changelog: v0.1 BETA Full support of *.DAT/*.HDR files extraction (one or all files). LZ2K and DFLT Uncompression files support. *.TEX files preview support (and extract as PNG file). Edit of *.TXT/*.SF/*.SUB/*.CSV files, with Color Syntax (Need to Fix Color Syntax). Basic folder explorer to read the DAT extracted files, and try to Preview/Edit them. Many littles options. v0.1 BETA Download Link (No Readme file included). .NET Framework 4.0 and .NET Framework 2.0 needed (I need to fix for just use .NET Framework 4.0). Please, take in consideration it's a beta version so many things are not finish (Like there is no progress bar when you extract all files of a DAT file). If you have any bug, idea, or you want help me, you feel free to contact me at Pakexplorer[at]gmail.com or through this forum in this topic or PM. Thanks. // Old presentation Topic.

There was a thread on a forum I used to frequent, wherein you simply ctrl + v into the reply box and post whatever comes up without any context. It could be hilarious at times. Thought we could start one here. I'll start. http://76.72.172.247:8123/ ...yeah it's just the address for the server dynmap, nothing to see here. (Mod note: Do not paste any passwords)

Baaaaaaaaty Basil is best bat. ...yeah, I was bored and recently found this catchy song, and felt like putting Basil to the music just cause. I'll just go work on the voiced scripts mod now... or something. Too bad I was unable to put Basil's proper hat.

It's been months since I last posted here, but it's also been months since I last uploaded a new piece of music. So here we go! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M66XFoDTVg Blade Symphony by JDBArtist created in 1 hour without my keyboard as it is currently in repair (so please accept my apology for the constant high-level velocity, I felt it was right for the tone and vibe of the track) I admit it sounds almost like an anime soundtrack. I had this tune in my head for a day and I am fairly happy with the final result. Enjoy!

I need and I want help, to support me because I already do more Games Tools (OpenIV by example) and I know after few times alone, we are broke to code ^^! So if we do a team with many peoples who search files format or other things, it's will be good... Any people who can help me is credited in my tool, I don't want steal any informations or anything else! .nxg_textures files are DDS Library, there a stack of DDS files in it, but before there is filenames and other informations That's what I'm talking about! News of TT Games Editor: I be able to decompress DFLT files, so I can read .tex files an other formats who compress with. So, I wrote the DDS preview: You can extract the picture in PNG, to modify the picture just use Photoshop, I think I put a help message in the Preview Window... Tomorrow, I certainly check the main functions, to do what's missing and I release the first beta version after that!

How it Should have Ended just posted this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOQxxNYSHR0

I can explain..

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O.T. I hope this goes here with the new categories and all... I was bored Saturday, so I attempted to do a let's play of the beginning of the horrible LEGO Island 3 Unity game. It failed, so I took the best clips and compiled them into a LEGO Island Gone Insane-style video: LEGO Island 3 Gone Wild. In case you did not get this earlier, I shall repeat: I made this because I was bored. That's better.

[4:03:49 AM] Zephyria: He’s a tryhard. [4:03:51 AM] Zephyria: Much like Sadie. [4:27:02 AM] Sadie: [saturday, November 23, 2013 4:41 PM] Ramius Antillies: <<< Zeph, you just love sitting on your pedestal, don't you? [4:29:58 AM] Zephyria: Well It’s true

I really only find myself going back to LR1 once in a while to screw around with character and car creation. The actual racing has no challenge in it anymore, and everything has been explored, no more mysterious beta shortcut remnants to investigate, there's nothing else to do. I do go back to LR2 sometimes though, and play around in arcade mode - where there's no car upgrades to screw up the difficulty and I can blow up cars left and right - or just drive around the worlds for fun.

This is TT related right? It rings a bell, from McJobless and Will's adventures in The LEGO Movie Videogame. I think Will might be able to help you out with this, he did something with these IIRC, and sent us several textures he ripped.

Guys, what are you talking about... .nxg_textures is just an archive of DDS textures. The .tex files are just .dds files renamed to .tex

don't know if there are people that watch adventure time here, but i highly recommend you to watch it! post the stuff you want to post related to adventure time here! yeh, whatever

It's nice to see people still coming together to build stuff from their own imagination- and it seems only to be getting more prevalent as time goes on. I remember the outrage in response* to TLG when they stopped placing alternate inspiration models and creations on the back of boxes but it's nice to the persistence of the community still doing alternate models. I hope that I can try this fun activity once I can find a local LUG to join, eventually. (Most likely NELUG) *I don't see the argument TLG provided (of how frustrating it was to younger builders not having instructions for the alternate models) at the time to be particularly relevant anymore in the age of the internet where they could easily create alternate models and post the instructions online.

Oooh, a brand new member registering just to join the project. Alrighty then. I was actually going to do some test recordings of myself the other day for Sparky to see how I would turn out, but yeah, I got lazy and didn't. Please read up on the guidelines if you haven't already, I'll be waiting for your voice sample.

http://www.gabenewell.org/

It's quite ridiculous. I bought one of the mugs for my bro. Then there is all those popvinyls. It's actually a decent mug.

I take a look at *.nxg_texture file... It's not really like Zv4. The first 4 bytes are the size of the next "Main File" parts (in Big Endian) who's contains name of the "Main File" and other informations... After That, the next 4 bytes are the size of the "Sub Files" parts... I thinks I add the support to my tools when I've done the basic funtions. for your question, "goto 0x18" said "put the read cursor at the offset 0x18", I think you need to read tutorial of hexadecimal to understand

Have you not looked in AppDataLocalVirtualStore? If it's not there, I don't know where it could be.

Seven Lions + Ellie Goulding + Kerli = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArPpVRxyyRY This is fantastic.

You know, sometimes you have to record the worst moments as an example piece. Zephyria MFW Seaborgium can't tell when I'm talking about the title of something, and this tries to appear smart, but just f****ing fails. I absolutely "love" our new members. Ben24x7 Well, I can certainly "not" understand th... ...Wait, what... ...Oh, darn it. Shadowblaze MFW Ben posts a comment but he doesn't know what to write so he just types senseless stuff. Quisoves Pugnat Beg pardon? Seaborgium @Zephyria: What does "MFW" stand for? Shadowblaze "My Face When". I searched on Google. Seaborgium No wait. It isn't even about the Latin, is it? It's about that whole "Prepare to Die" thing, isn't it? So you have publicly declared me a disgusting human being because I failed to get your little reference and made a little joke about it. I am a horrible person who must be publicly derided, because of that? Seriously Alcom1 Yes seriously. This is a serious issue. There are conflicts between the crowd of newer members and the old Veterans-of-forum-Life that should be fixed. Otherwise we are going to have more outbursts like this. Alcom1 Also, you appear to have been labeled a 'nuisance' and not a 'disgusting human being'. Zephyria's comment is of no threat to you. Just tank it and post with finesse. Quisoves Pugnat @Alcom While I agree that he's probably best to ignore the insult, I don't think that it can be written off as a conflict between a newer member and a forum-veteran. It's a matter of charity, or a lack thereof. If you don't respect someone when he's new, you're not going to truly respect him simply because he's spent more time here. TheDoctor My drama. Quisoves Pugnat Don't get me wrong, I understand that in any community, there will always be a certain tension between newcomers and old-timers. But there are some things that time alone cannot not change and that tension cannot be blamed for. If you prick a newbie, will he not bleed? TheDoctor I harbor great contempt for a large numbers of active members, but I simply do not involve myself. I have no interest in their matters and have a much nicer time only replying to that which hold any appreciable interest in. Seaborgium @Alcom: I see that there is a rift. However this conflict between "veterans" and newbies is simply immature and pointless. If what you say, Alcom, is correct(which it probably is) this isn't a response to an offense, it's simply a pretense to vent out general anger against newcomers. It's certainly not mature and does not lead to healthy forums or making friends. Seaborgium I have dealt with people whose sense of humor befuddles me. When I saw some of your posts on the LU Gallery, I was under the impression that you were a pretentious person. At some point I realized that this was your sense of humor and that you meant no wrong, and are in fact a decent person. If I had decided to make angry comments at the time, and I am glad I didn't, because you and I would likely be enemies. This kind of behavior is bad for the whole community and doesn't just seem e... Seaborgium xcusable as 'vets vs. newbies'. Sadie Meowsalot @Zeph: MFW you're being a d*** to people @Ben24x7: you aren't funny @TheDoctor: and that's why you always feel bitter @Seaborgium: you. You live up to your name in instability. stop it. @Alcom: "alcom... I like you" - Lair

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIZbGSXeWWE But seriously, it depends for me. Though I wouldn't easily consider LEGO Racers to have a great replay value (but mods have certainly changed this to a certain extent), it will always have a special place in my nostalgia archive. Like Brutalmoose said, only two players maximum at a golden age of party gaming was a death sentence. A core factor as to why the Mario Kart games have overall better replay value for me. Comparing LR would be most fair with MK64. The latter provided quite a challenge for me throughout the game, it has rubber-banding (which instantly makes the game more challenging) and the power-up system works out better. But I learnt to accept the 'difficulty' of LR and adapted my racing style to that of the AI.

Certain Mario Karts, yes. Others I play more or equally though. (actually... there is only one Mario Kart I own soooooo).

The Situation On April 27th, 2014, several images were found, developed by Eurobricks user 'Bbqqq', that had LEGO Digital Designer at an enhanced field of view. Infuriatingly, Bbqqq did not include instructions on how to increase LEGO Digital Designer's field of view angle, so I proceeded to contact the guy via Eurobrick's private messaging system. Operation Barbeque is a plan to retrieve information from Bbqqq, which will allow myself and anyone to modify the Field of View of LEGO Digital Designer to something reasonable. The Conversation (If you could call it that) Message 1: Initial Contact Message 2: Subsequent Contact Message 3: If I didn't know better I'd say this guy was trolling me. Message 4: Alcom is a total sell-out. Message 5: The plot thickens. Well now he seems like a nice guy. That solves the secondary mystery. :)

Another video regarding the stupidity of the AI. No modifications done this time though: I didn't post this right away because I wasn't sure if I should make a new topic or post it here. I almost forgot to post it too!

Now for a bunch of messages with the word 'stop' in them. [2/20/2014 2:13:50 PM] [sGT] Alcom Isst: ...and now it stopped working? [2/20/2014 2:16:59 AM] Poe: jamie stop jizzing about Grilled Cheese [2/20/2014 2:35:46 AM] McJobless: You should probably stop touching it then. [2/20/2014 4:06:48 AM] Poe: Why is it so hard to stop thinking sometimes [2/22/2014 5:40:46 PM] jamesster: and I kinda wish some certain people would stop talking about LIS every half hour [2/23/2014 2:14:08 AM] [sGT] Alcom Isst: Guys, I'm trying to do homework, stop having such an enticing conversation. [2/23/2014 3:38:56 AM] McJobless: I'll post up what I've got later tonight, if the cockroaches don't stop me. [2/23/2014 3:51:20 PM] Poe: the people in charge need to stop doing drugs and actually get s*** done [2/23/2014 6:20:52 PM] McJobless: Hey Alcom. Stop being better than me. [2/23/2014 7:58:55 PM] McJobless: I stopped half-way. [2/23/2014 9:18:45 PM] Ramius Antillies: Glad your parents haven't made you stop. I suppose you've got that going for you lol [2/23/2014 10:27:16 PM] Ciprian: STOP. THE. DOCTOR. WHO. REFERENCES. [2/23/2014 11:48:38 PM] [sGT] Alcom Isst: Cause ever since I saw someone say "Sonic 06 is a good game", I've stopped regarding any unaccompanied statement that something is good. [2/25/2014 12:29:23 AM] Stan McStudz: STOP DROPPING LETTERS, DAMN IT [2/25/2014 2:24:40 AM] Stan McStudz: started on the 22nd, stopped an hour ago. [2/25/2014 12:32:48 PM] Triangle717: My plan is in motion, and it can never be stopped! (devil) [2/26/2014 3:28:27 PM] McJobless: KING stopped being evil for one second. [2/26/2014 3:38:21 PM] Ramius Antillies: They didn't stop being evil. They're doing this out of their best interest [2/27/2014 2:59:26 PM] Poe: I played it on PC but then got bored and stopped playing and never touched it again then I got it for Xbox360 but the game and the Xbox is half a country away so I cant finish it yet. [2/27/2014 3:33:17 PM] Philip: please stop putting my interests down c: [2/27/2014 4:14:19 PM] Poe: was it a stop sign [2/27/2014 6:20:21 PM] Poe: I like how the game has been going on for so long the ingame clock has stopped moving long ago [2/27/2014 7:16:43 PM] Poe: I CANT STOP LOOKING AT THESE PICTURES [2/27/2014 7:18:01 PM] Poe: I HAVE NEVER GONE ON REDDIT BEFORE AND NOW I CANT STOP [2/27/2014 7:34:08 PM] [sGT] Alcom Isst: I need to stop staring at my POV render and take a shower. [2/28/2014 1:32:56 AM] Jamesster: as in, you're a generally good guy trying to stop generally bad guys from stealing stuff from throughout time [2/28/2014 2:37:17 AM] McJobless: OH OHHHH OH OH OH IT'S COMING TO ME I CAN'T STOP IT [2/28/2014 8:56:13 PM] Ramius Antillies: Aren't you making both a game and a stop-motion? Do you have time to make a mod? [2/28/2014 8:56:48 PM] McJobless: The stop-motion doesn't begin production until Week 5. [2/28/2014 9:08:12 PM | Edited 9:08:17 PM] Ramius Antillies: "Ok, apparently "no" wasn't strong enough. Stop." [2/28/2014 9:12:45 PM] Triangle717: And when you are on the serving side (feed the family and all that)... I'll stop talking now. Why is there a 2-month gap in my skype logs? [4/28/2014 4:14:35 PM] Alcom Isst: I made the typo stop existing. [4/28/2014 6:11:57 PM] Alcom Isst: Stop. [4/28/2014 6:12:09 PM] Alcom Isst: I SAID STOP! [4/28/2014 10:13:08 PM] Stan McStudz: I CAN'T STOP [7:02:54 AM] McJobless: As soon as people stop making a big deal about something, the problem seems to just vanish. [7:05:25 AM] McJobless: Stop being social-cunts and focus on the issues that are actually destroying the last bits of credability this industry has [9:16:54 AM] Jim Brickkeeper: Just ate breakfast in Enfield, CT. Tragically, I cannot stop by the LEGO US HQ [9:42:52 AM] Alcom Isst: but it stopped for some reaso- oh.

There are somethings that should not be LEGOfied, the Simpsons is one of them...

Well, I wasn't exactly sure what to think of it by screenshots alone, but now that I tried the demo, I can say I really like it! Super-personal preference thing:

First of all i did not forget. You are not the only one who has not been drawn, I've done less than half of all requests. You were not skipped, I simply have not gotten to yours yet. Secondly, I am not "Fushigar." I am Fushigisaur, or Fushi, Fushigi, Fush, Sushi, Jush, June, Juni, Juniper, Bug Catcher, Slug Master, or Sad Tim. All of these are acceptable names to call me. "Fushigar" is not.

Going on with the LEGO digital paintings, this fella has some pretty interesting Bionicle art. A unique take on the characters of each of the six original Toa. My favourite has to be Kopaka below, it is exactly how I would have pictured him. Not so sure about the other characters though, however I still love their interpretations. The aforementioned link has the rest of them, and he has a few other Bionicle art pieces lying around his gallery too. Oh, and also... Some Aussie desert place made a life-size LEGO forest for a small event. It's since been removed unfortunately, but it's still awesome.

Yes we all know it does that. Try instead (:@smug without the @) I've actuallly never played Pokemo-*you pull out hammer* *I cringe*... Umm... ok... I've seen someone playing it at their house... does that count? *you heft the hammer* *I scamper off* You saw what happened in the shoutbox... Welcome to RRU. *robotic voice* Enjoy your doughnut

BUT SIZE = 0?! DOES THAT MEAN...WE'RE ALL DEAD?! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES.

That way, it took me no longer than 10 minutes. But seriously, I just make clever use of the programs I have at hand. I do use a find and replace method. For IGP it was easy, all bytes could be kept at 4 and still make it a good race. But other tracks need various byte values, in order to make the race hard but not impossible, and figuring out what combination of bytes to use and testing this is the time consuming part.

This is a Rock Raider movie a made when i was 10 Hope you like it

Best Rock Raiders stop motion I've ever seen since well I never seen any others. Sound effects weren't too annoying.

Maybe it's the lighting but it looks like you have gray canopy pieces. DO WANT. The animation was pretty good, especially the rubble falling/clearing at the beginning, but using the same two sound effects for everything wasn't as good.

http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/70170 simple right now