Quoting: DrMcCoy

Quoting: sub(There are people that tend to love it, though!)

I do. I love me some David Lynch movies.

Hell, I also still maintain that his Dune movie is a work of genius. It only works if you have read the book, though.

You mean, like, a sort of send-up or ironic commentary on the book?
Because otherwise, two words: "Weirding Module". And in general, the tone contrast was like someone decided to make a movie from a John le Carre novel and ended up with Doctor Strangelove.
At that, no matter what you might think of the movie in other ways, it really needed cutting. There were all these empty minutes, filler where nothing happened--and I don't mean that it had scenes with dialogue that went nowhere or something, I mean whole minutes spent looking at the bloody moons or something, with no action, no dialogue, nothing! Even if one fundamentally liked Lynch's Dune, it could have seriously used a Phantom Edit to tighten and de-clutter it.

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I went and read the whole piece, it was oddly interesting. I'm left with just one question: Who are these Factor 5 people?

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Quoting: MyeulC

Quotegraphically impressive space shooter

Is that a new genre? :D

It looks nice. I however miss evochron mercenary's newtonian accuracy. I am increasingly getting tired of those "planes in space*, but with rockets and asteroids". This is nice a few times, but I would like to see some originality here.

Gives me an idea: Imagine Kerbal Space Program, with somewhat more powerful/futuristic engines available. Except, there are people attacking your planet with spaceships and maybe simple rock bombardment. You get advance warning and can track their orbits and have to send out ships to intercept using KSP-style orbital mechanics.

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Ohhh, I remember the book thingie from back when! It's a classic -- by which I mean, it was lame as hell. Back when tabletop RPGs were fresh and new and just starting to gather bandwagon, and they thought "Can we come up with some way to do this solo?" and the answer was a choose-your-own-adventure book with a couple of combat events where you rolled some dice. Like all choose-your-own-adventure books, the basic problem was that having all the different stuff to flip around to meant any given story line had to be really short and boring. The thing managed to be hackneyed and cliche even though it was practically the only example of its precise type of thing.

Making it into a computer game does avoid all the problems that make the choose-your-own-adventure book so sucky (which is why there are so many more of the former than the latter), and I'm fond of Steve Jackson, but still--was this really worth doing a remake of?

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Quoting: dmantioneMy impression is that you won't get any further with modern ways of communication. If you want to find out more, you need to pick up the old fashioned phone and make him talk ;)

Still not old fashioned enough. I don't think anything short of up close and personal with some feathers and a bucket of tar would get a lot of results. ;)

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Quoting: meracoIt's about female menstruation, Liam?

Well, obv. If it was about male menstruation that would just be weird.

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Quoting: GuestComical if you're highly desensitized I guess? Goat Simulator is more comical but without being mean.

I was thinking it looked kinda like Goat Simulator without a goat.

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Any game named after a piece of the poem "Kubla Khan" gets my interest.

"In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea."

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Bring out your dead!
"I'm not dead yet!"

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Quoting: grenadecx

Quoting: babaiIf you are using Linux for freedom/open source idealism, ideologically you SHOULD buy AMD products and not tell me how a 1060 overpowers an RX480 today. AMD had no obligations towards supporting MESA or opening up millions of lines of DPM code for their chips. They still did.
Support a company that supports your platform.
If you don't follow the open source philosophy and using Linux just because you like say the millions of widget themes it supports or for any other reason, buy Nvidia.

Oh please. "SHOULD buy" - are you kidding me?

Linux is all about freedom, and now you are telling me what I should buy? So much for freedom. Thanks.

Freedom is not incompatible with responsibility. Linux, lest we forget, is GPLed, not BSD licensed.

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