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https://www.rpg.net has at least three parallel hate threads going on about him at any given time if you want to read more.
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GoneRampant posted:Regarding the Zak Smith thing, I did a bit of reading into him. After laughing like a 12 year old that he shares the name with an adult film star, I found a tumblr post by a trans dev who worked with Zak for a few years that was asked about how they felt regarding Zak being a transphobic. Their response (Since I'm too lazy to dig it up) amounted to "I worked with Zak for nearly five years; if he was transphobic, why would he willingly work in his version of a living hell and never say a thing?" plenty of transphobic people know how to keep their mouth shut to keep a paycheck.
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GoneRampant posted:Regarding the Zak Smith thing, I did a bit of reading into him. After laughing like a 12 year old that he shares the name with an adult film star, I found a tumblr post by a trans dev who worked with Zak for a few years that was asked about how they felt regarding Zak being a transphobic. Their response (Since I'm too lazy to dig it up) amounted to "I worked with Zak for nearly five years; if he was transphobic, why would he willingly work in his version of a living hell and never say a thing?" We Eat Blood features a trans vampire whose only real interaction with you is to tell you they murder Trump supporters and give random "old, ugly guys" handjobs every night.
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Dienes posted:We Eat Blood features a trans vampire whose only real interaction with you is to tell you they murder Trump supporters and give random "old, ugly guys" handjobs every night. Lol, transphobic as gently caress. all trans people are hookers dontcha know
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Feb 25, 2017 04:19
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Said character is also a rapist and serial killer, and is named after a real trans person that Zak has publicly gone after in the past. So, yeah.
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Feb 25, 2017 04:23
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This discussion has nothing to do with Bloodlines. No one cares about some Gamergate bigot's terrible text adventure.
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Feb 25, 2017 05:01
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In Obsidian's AMA on reddit: And speaking of Leonard Boyarsky, he gave a retrospective of his career at SINFO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pjx7s1V1elw
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Feb 26, 2017 00:35
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Around 1:29:30 he says he's creating a brand new IP, so Bloodlines 2 would not be it. Somehow Paradox seems to have purchased the WoD IP primarily to advance its LARP. All its announced digital properties at this point have been shovelware. Who could have seen that coming?
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Feb 26, 2017 00:49
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lol at the idea of making a modern 3D RPG on a crowdsourced budget.
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Feb 26, 2017 01:52
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Paradox publishes Crusader Kings and Cities: Skylines, they could fund a AAA effort game (or a midbudget jankfest like Bloodlines 1) if they wanted to.
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Feb 26, 2017 01:57
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WrightOfWay posted:lol at the idea of making a modern 3D RPG on a crowdsourced budget. You use the crowd funding to make a decent example product to Either way Obsidian is poorly run and has hemorrhaged most of its talent without gaining any actual QA capacity or management, so why anyone would expect a non-jankfest game from them is beyond me.
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The fact that they've survived as an independent studio for 15 years would throw a bit of water on the notion that Obs is poorly run. Zenimax tried to eat them and couldn't, that's quite a feat. As for personnel, revolving doors are the nature of the business, given the burnout rate that comes from crunch and the ebb and flow of contracted funding. I guess you could call Avellone's departure significant, but his recent output had been less than stellar even so. I don't have high hopes for Torment, or Prey for that matter. The idea of crowdfunding a proof of concept is so stupendously dumb that it's almost sublime. Can't say it hasn't been done - there was that old school Rainbow Six-style tactical shooter that funded in the early days of the game KS boom, they ended up with an extremely anemic vertical slice that they sold to a no-name publisher and quietly died. There was also some UE4 superhero concept that went nowhere fast. But really, there's no upside. If you're in the position where you can't pay for your own proof of concept and have to pass the hat around, you sure as poo poo don't have money to keep the lights on for the months it will take to find a publisher who'll take pity on you. More to the point, there is literally no AAA publisher on earth that will give you money to build an IP that they don't own, and only a few who will buy a new IP off of you. A crowdfunded proof of concept would have to be an IP that backers knew if it's going to get any love, and you can't raise money off of borrowed IP through crowdfunding, the KS police will shut you down. The only reason Paradox was involved in "publishing" PoE is because they were never asked to put their money into the actual development of the game. Basic Chunnel fucked around with this message at 10:00 on Feb 27, 2017 |
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Can anybody account for why, after installing the widescreen fix and the CQM, that all in-game decals (including but not limited to the UI and inventory item images) are now in spectacular, eye-poping low-res? Even adjusting the resolution scale back to normal hasn't fixed the problem. Is that a wallet in your pocket or do you just have undefinable brown blur?
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Other than one of the installs probably hosed up the textures, texture settings in some .cfg/.ini, or perhaps some sort of streaming/LoD issue (but Source didn't and I think still doesn't support texture streaming).
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Turns out that the installation instructions for CQM in the OP are out of date - you direct the install to the root folder, not the /Vampire subfolder. It was an issue with the game freaking out upon seeing RAM capacity above 2 gigs.
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Mar 16, 2017 00:03
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So Jack definitely set the fire, right?
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Basic Chunnel posted:So Jack definitely set the fire, right? Grünfeld Bach set the fire in Grout's house. Unless you are talking about the forest fire, which was set by LaCroix (or probably one of his lackeys). IShallRiseAgain fucked around with this message at 14:31 on Apr 1, 2017 |
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Basic Chunnel posted:So Jack definitely set the fire, right? Only the fire in LaCroix's pants.
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Basic Chunnel posted:So Jack definitely set the fire, right? All I know is, we didn't start the fire.
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TheCenturion posted:All I know is, we didn't start the fire. Though we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it.
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Fuzz posted:Though we didn't light it, but we tried to evade it for several minutes
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Apr 1, 2017 16:24
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aggravated damage is no joke
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IShallRiseAgain posted:Grünfeld Bach set the fire in Grout's house. I know its for game reasons, but I thought LaCroix would have more lackeys than just you and the Sheriff. It seems like he had a whole building full of Ventrue just doing paperwork till it was time to shoot you.
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sebmojo posted:aggravated damage is no joke Only you can prevent rötschreck.
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IShallRiseAgain posted:Unless you are talking about the forest fire, which was set by LaCroix (or probably one of his lackeys).
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CatchrNdRy posted:I know its for game reasons, but I thought LaCroix would have more lackeys than just you and the Sheriff. It seems like he had a whole building full of Ventrue just doing paperwork till it was time to shoot you. Yeah, LaCroix is a really, really weak Prince. He was only nominally backed since LA wasn't Camarilla turf; if he succeeded he added it to the fold. If he failed, no real loss to the Inner Circle. His authority barely extends beyond downtown core.
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OAquinas posted:Yeah, LaCroix is a really, really weak Prince. He was only nominally backed since LA wasn't Camarilla turf; if he succeeded he added it to the fold. If he failed, no real loss to the Inner Circle. His authority barely extends beyond downtown core. That makes a lot more sense.
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sebmojo posted:aggravated damage is no joke I forget what series I saw this in but I loved the idea that damage taken from vampire weaknesses only heals at the rate of normal human metabolism and can scar and maim like common mortal injuries. That really wouldn't work in a videogame but it's fantastic flavor in a non-real time setting.
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Is anyone playing this game on Windows 10 without recurring issues? I have to reinstall my AMD video drivers daily in order to play Bloodlines because I keep getting "Unable to init shader system" engine errors. A clean video driver reinstall fixes the issue so I think something is broken with the DirectX 9 runtime, but I don't have any idea what's triggering this. I don't let Windows update my device drivers and it seems to happen whether or not there have been any recent Windows updates. Has anyone else seen this problem?
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Charles Mansion posted:Is anyone playing this game on Windows 10 without recurring issues? I have to reinstall my AMD video drivers daily in order to play Bloodlines because I keep getting "Unable to init shader system" engine errors. A clean video driver reinstall fixes the issue so I think something is broken with the DirectX 9 runtime, but I don't have any idea what's triggering this. I don't let Windows update my device drivers and it seems to happen whether or not there have been any recent Windows updates. It might be an AMD issue, I played it a few months back with an NVidia card and the unofficial patch, and didn't encounter any issues.
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