Avali Nexus

(12-19-2015, 05:33 AM)Flarezerker Wrote: [ -> ]

(12-19-2015, 05:29 AM)Shaadaris Wrote: [ -> ]Since when does the UN get anything done?
Seriously, if you expect the UN to save anyone, think again.
They're basically in the pockets of the most corrupt governments in the world.

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Good luck winning against the entire government with their law jitsu.
Speaking of which, there's nothing to contest since this is now officially the law.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights
It is internationally criminal to intrude upon fundamental human rights.

"oh well we don't care, overruled. fuck human rights, thanks for bringing this up with us so we can FINALLY say that."

(12-19-2015, 05:33 AM)Flarezerker Wrote: [ -> ]It is internationally criminal to intrude upon fundamental human rights.

So it appears we've been hit by, we've been struck by, a smooth criminal.

(12-19-2015, 05:33 AM)Flarezerker Wrote: [ -> ]

(12-19-2015, 05:29 AM)Shaadaris Wrote: [ -> ]Since when does the UN get anything done?
Seriously, if you expect the UN to save anyone, think again.
They're basically in the pockets of the most corrupt governments in the world.

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Good luck winning against the entire government with their law jitsu.
Speaking of which, there's nothing to contest since this is now officially the law.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights
It is internationally criminal to intrude upon fundamental human rights.

and the people who stop these from being violated are the same people who just passed this law or are in the pockets of those who just did.
I doubt anything will be done about it. If something is done about it, color me impressed.

Well at least I didn't get downvoted for those logs I posted...

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I'm back from the ravaged wastes of the painted desert pitting the Arm and Core against each other for my amusement with some thoughts on Total Annihilation: Steam edition.

So the Steam edition isn't really anything special, it's a rip of the GOG version that you can launch from your steam library, doesn't even support the steam overlay, but assuming you don't already have the GOG version and have a spare $3 it's a very compelling buy. TA is one of those "golden era" RTS games that most people remember fondly, Warcraft, Homeworld, Dawn of War, and TA all definitely qualify and are all showing their age despite their dedicated modding communities. Now TA was the first RTS game to present 3D graphics, albeit in a very 2D way with no zoom function (which is very jarring for more modern players), and had a very unique approach to battlefield physics that most games still don't bother to duplicate, namely giving everything a collision model, this allowed you to literally create walls of dead bots, and was the lynchpin holding together the games in-built wall system, as it caps you at 250 units per player (possible total of 1000 units on map at once) for performance reasons elaborate wall systems would really bite into that, so upon completion the game treats all wall segments as reclaimable wreckage. Now niche features aside TA will offer a lot of familiar things for any PA or SupCom players as it, aside from being the grandaddy of nearly all modern RTS games, is the most direct ancestor either of the aforementioned titles can claim to have, and indeed it should speak of TA's successes if even today companies are still trying to recreate it's tactical magic.

The Steam edition also comes with two expansion packs, that add a variety of new tactical options of varying degrees of absurdity, including mobile anti-nuke silos, mobile doomsday weapons, gatling-artillery pieces, pup-up heavy cannon emplacements, and that's just one of the game's two factions.
TA boasts a very generous selection of premade maps and comes with it's own map editor, although 32x32km may seem small to some people TA's lack of a zoom function and inevitably restrictive unit cap will certainly make it feel more difficult to fill out completely. There are also several different terrain types with many unique features that the maps use to direct and guide the base expansion of the various players, such as urban centers that force the player to congregate their economy in parks and artificial worlds that encourage the player to hunker down in a defensible position and not trouble themselves with expanding.
Early game you may find the pacing a bit slow, you'll almost certainly run out of resources before everything is up and running which only hurts the pacing even more, but you can probably take solace in the fact that your AI opponents are even more fiscally irresponsible than you are, yes TA really starts to suffer when you start wringing it's AI for a challenge, on medium difficulty the AI pads it's unit limit with engineering units and sheepishly sends underwhelming waves of uncoordinated units in your general direction hoping for the best, and completely falls apart when asked to conduct an amphibious or air assault.

I'm really starting to struggle to put together some coherent thoughts on the matter between it being 3AM and me having a somewhat bad headache, so I'll just leave this as a somewhat disorganized bullet list and perhaps revisit it later.

incase is playing Type 59 in armored warfare, play this on team speak/voice chat

TFW you find your old PSX but no remotes or memory cards.

Dreams are weird. I had spent like, 30 minutes trying to find ehks and shout at him then I woke up and remembered I had no immediate reason to be angry at him.

(12-19-2015, 03:49 PM)Surge Wrote: [ -> ]Dreams are weird. I had spent like, 30 minutes trying to find ehks and shout at him then I woke up and remembered I had no immediate reason to be angry at him.

oi, the forums aren't on fire and there aren't huge arguments every other day
there is indeed no reason to yell at me!

(12-19-2015, 04:36 PM)Ehksidian Wrote: [ -> ]

(12-19-2015, 03:49 PM)Surge Wrote: [ -> ]Dreams are weird. I had spent like, 30 minutes trying to find ehks and shout at him then I woke up and remembered I had no immediate reason to be angry at him.

oi, the forums aren't on fire and there aren't huge arguments every other day
there is indeed no reason to yell at me!

Actually if I wanted I could use the latter there to yell at you for reasons outlined and ignored last night.

TIL about a little indie title called "simple planes" that allows you to build your own aircraft in a fully customizable modular fashion.

Now maybe I'm just overtly excited about the potential to roughly recreate a few Tecarian fighter aircraft in 3D but I do like the idea of applying the same molding customization FO4 and Sims4 have to vehicle design.

(12-19-2015, 05:23 AM)Flarezerker Wrote: [ -> ]Wait a sec. Hold the fucking phones. Isn't it a basic human right to privacy?

It should be, but it isn't.

And way too many people are okay with their privacy being intruded into for it to ever become a basic human right.

Effectively, the majority seems to have just accepted that they aren't allowed any privacy. And because they all just accept it so willingly, these atrocities will only get worse instead of being outlawed.

Besides, when do criminals ever follow the law? Politicians are the worst criminals on the planet.

(12-19-2015, 08:43 PM)OdinYggd Wrote: [ -> ]

(12-19-2015, 05:23 AM)Flarezerker Wrote: [ -> ]Wait a sec. Hold the fucking phones. Isn't it a basic human right to privacy?

It should be, but it isn't.

And way too many people are okay with their privacy being intruded into for it to ever become a basic human right.

Effectively, the majority seems to have just accepted that they aren't allowed any privacy. And because they all just accept it so willingly, these atrocities will only get worse instead of being outlawed.

Besides, when do criminals ever follow the law? Politicians are the worst criminals on the planet.

It is a human right according to many legal documents detailing it as such.
From the (possibly abridged? it's actually surprisingly legible) Universal Declaration of Human Rights, courtesy of amnesty.ca:
"No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honor and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks."

It's the arbitrary part that's the stickler. That was poorly worded and governments are probably using the "we have a system so it is not arbitrary" route to get out of it. Of course, the whole anti-terrorism/cybersecurity thing is probably a pretense just to get away with it, considering they're collecting far more data than is nessessary for finding out that kind of thing.

When arbitrary can also mean: "(of power or a ruling body) unrestrained and autocratic in the use of authority." Which also sounds a lot like what they're doing - abusing their authority to invade peoples' privacy for their own gain, and the gain of third parties.

Once again, this will be gladly missed by everyone, or counterargued with law-jitsu until everyone gives up, because that's what the government does. Abuse loopholes. Hell, that's exactly what they did with CISA, abused the fact the budget bill almost had to pass, and stuck it into the unrelated bill suddenly at the last moment, so they wouldn't have to discuss it and it would surely pass, unlike the previous attempts CISPA, SOPA, PIPA, etcetera.

I love the UrbanMech so much.


it's a trash can on legs with a pair of gunpods, on one I've got a pair of pulse lasers, on the other a giant bundle of MGs lashed together, then I scream "GIB INNARDS" at the enemy team and unleash a storm of bullets until my teammates punch open the enemy armor and my MGs can start ripping apart their internals.

ugh omni please stop avoiding me or whatever you're doinggg

The recent events on Skype have me questioning why I bother to hang out with people so aggressively disinterested in my hobbies and happenings, I suppose I technically already know the answer but it's a sobering thought to look over my relation with the various places I hang out.

(12-19-2015, 10:08 PM)Surge Wrote: [ -> ]The recent events on Skype have me questioning why I bother to hang out with people so aggressively disinterested in my hobbies and happenings, I suppose I technically already know the answer but it's a sobering thought to look over my relation with the various places I hang out.

If only I liked MP with mechs.  I only like co-op, though I do love me a good Novacat once in a while.  Put either two PPCs or a bunch of medium lasers in that beaut and laugh while you play to your advantages as a mech with the armor of an assault and maneuverability of a medium class dogfighter.  Make that sexy machine dance.

(12-19-2015, 10:51 PM)Lost Rinoah Wrote: [ -> ]

(12-19-2015, 10:08 PM)Surge Wrote: [ -> ]The recent events on Skype have me questioning why I bother to hang out with people so aggressively disinterested in my hobbies and happenings, I suppose I technically already know the answer but it's a sobering thought to look over my relation with the various places I hang out.

If only I liked MP with mechs.  I only like co-op, though I do love me a good Novacat once in a while.  Put either two PPCs or a bunch of medium lasers in that beaut and laugh while you play to your advantages as a mech with the armor of an assault and maneuverability of a medium class dogfighter.  Make that sexy machine dance.

I'm generally not much of a brawler, I like Supernova, Solitaire, and Canis as my top 3 generally. Supernova is outstanding pinpoint alpha with a low profile, Solitaire is an MASC equipped 25-ton laserback, and the Canis is the best sort of response to mechs like the Mauler, more dakka.

I'm a movement focused pilot.  Catch their dead points,  protect my own, all while making them think they're getting me.  Nova-cat's a seductive beast.  Luring in even the best who think it little more than a house on legs.  Only to realize too late.  As a 95 ton mech, focusing on armor and engines over weapons makes it a dogfighter through and through.  with the capability to lay low mediums and light mechs.  Who instantly assume it easy to flank before they have their shell popped or get stepped on.  It usually is preferrable to stay away from heavy mechs who can match it via volley fire.  And it is not effective against structures  As the nova-cat focuses on being able to outlast anything with a straight maxed tier set of laser systems and massive internal heat dissipation and limit even without sinks.  However, while it can take on other assaults toe to toe.  It's all the pilot there.

Other mechs I've practiced and love are the Hollander IIC, and the Katapult.