Caltrops - Half-Life II ???





	[quote name="Flurgendorf J. Creexul"]<font color="#aeb5ff"><b>Jhoh Cable</b></font> (5:59:42 PM): Flurf. <font color="#aeb5ff"><b>Jhoh Cable</b></font> (6:02:12 PM): <a href="http://mywebpages.comcast.net/jccable/gmaneyes.jpg">http://mywebpages.comcast.net/jccable/gmaneyes.jpg</a> <font color="#f5b8b9"><b>INC</b></font> (6:05:52 PM): I'm hypnotized <font color="#aeb5ff"><b>Jhoh Cable</b></font> (6:06:01 PM): <a href="http://mywebpages.comcast.net/jccable/kleinerlabstuff.jpg">http://mywebpages.comcast.net/jccable/kleinerlabstuff.jpg</a> <font color="#f5b8b9"><b>INC</b></font> (6:06:28 PM): 1 minute until download <font color="#aeb5ff"><b>Jhoh Cable</b></font> (6:06:33 PM): Horayx. <font color="#aeb5ff"><b>Jhoh Cable</b></font> (6:06:41 PM): It's way way easy to take screenshots from these bink videos. <font color="#f5b8b9"><b>INC</b></font> (6:06:53 PM): downloading now :( <font color="#f5b8b9"><b>INC</b></font> (6:07:58 PM): 24 minutes to go <font color="#aeb5ff"><b>Jhoh Cable</b></font> (6:08:08 PM): Yes there is lots of waiting. :( <font color="#f5b8b9"><b>INC</b></font> (6:08:09 PM): I hope the game loads faster than this between levels <font color="#aeb5ff"><b>Jhoh Cable</b></font> (6:08:19 PM): Well naturally. <font color="#aeb5ff"><b>Jhoh Cable</b></font> (6:08:25 PM): I'm sure it'll be just like the original HL loading. <font color="#aeb5ff"><b>Jhoh Cable</b></font> (6:08:28 PM): Less than a minute. <font color="#aeb5ff"><b>Jhoh Cable</b></font> (6:08:46 PM): Computers have advanced so much now that it's like BAYUM and you're in the next area already in Half-Life 1. <font color="#f5b8b9"><b>INC</b></font> (6:09:55 PM): what if I'm playing HL2 though? <font color="#f5b8b9"><b>INC</b></font> (6:10:02 PM): why would it load the next HL1 level? <font color="#aeb5ff"><b>Jhoh Cable</b></font> (6:10:08 PM): OMG <font color="#aeb5ff"><b>Jhoh Cable</b></font> (6:10:11 PM): That's part of the secret! <font color="#f5b8b9"><b>INC</b></font> (6:10:16 PM): a time traveling computer <font color="#aeb5ff"><b>Jhoh Cable</b></font> (6:10:17 PM): I am not saying that. :( <font color="#f5b8b9"><b>INC</b></font> (6:10:22 PM): soon you'll be in the next level of Pong <font color="#aeb5ff"><b>Jhoh Cable</b></font> (6:10:24 PM): I mean that the loading times will probably be the same. <font color="#f5b8b9"><b>INC</b></font> (6:10:32 PM): oh <font color="#f5b8b9"><b>INC</b></font> (6:10:37 PM): it's all about streaming now <font color="#f5b8b9"><b>INC</b></font> (6:10:39 PM): no loading <font color="#f5b8b9"><b>INC</b></font> (6:10:47 PM): our game is streaming <font color="#f5b8b9"><b>INC</b></font> (6:10:54 PM): you'll be exhausted when you finish our game <font color="#aeb5ff"><b>Jhoh Cable</b></font> (6:11:35 PM): ogm <font color="#aeb5ff"><b>Jhoh Cable</b></font> (6:11:42 PM): The first streamed content game. :) <font color="#aeb5ff"><b>Jhoh Cable</b></font> (6:11:49 PM): Halo so ripped off HL for that. >:O <font color="#f5b8b9"><b>INC</b></font> (6:11:57 PM): for streaming? <font color="#f5b8b9"><b>INC</b></font> (6:12:05 PM): it's not streaming, it's loading (HL) <font color="#f5b8b9"><b>INC</b></font> (6:12:08 PM): I don't know about Halo <font color="#aeb5ff"><b>Jhoh Cable</b></font> (6:12:18 PM): Well Halo had some streaming. <font color="#aeb5ff"><b>Jhoh Cable</b></font> (6:12:28 PM): But then eventually it would break all that shit up with a big fuckin loading screen. <font color="#aeb5ff"><b>Jhoh Cable</b></font> (6:12:51 PM): <a href="http://mywebpages.comcast.net/jccable/gmanghost.jpg">http://mywebpages.comcast.net/jccable/gmanghost.jpg</a> <font color="#f5b8b9"><b>INC</b></font> (6:13:26 PM): I don't need HL2 to be spooky <font color="#f5b8b9"><b>INC</b></font> (6:13:33 PM): I have every other game ever invented for that <font color="#aeb5ff"><b>Jhoh Cable</b></font> (6:13:49 PM): But HL2 will of course innovate in its spookiness. <font color="#aeb5ff"><b>Jhoh Cable</b></font> (6:13:57 PM): In fact, I read some creepy shit in an interview today. <font color="#f5b8b9"><b>INC</b></font> (6:14:15 PM): as long as I can pick up the spookiness with a gravity gun and throw it into the fire of non-stop action <font color="#aeb5ff"><b>Jhoh Cable</b></font> (6:14:26 PM): Yes, that is how you will fight it. :) <font color="#aeb5ff"><b>Jhoh Cable</b></font> (6:14:41 PM): "We wanted people to really be afraid, not 'well, they are telling me I ought to be afraid here but it's really only about as scary as watching the X-Files.' In order to do that we needed to have characters that worked on a much deeper level than the caricatures we created in Half-Life 1. Fortunately it turned out that <b><i><u><font size="+3">there is a body of work that exists in psychiatric research about a bunch of non-cognitive functions that you can leverage to convince people's brains</u></i></b></font> that 'this is really a person and I am in the room with them.' So that process of going from a high level concept down to low level implementation is what drove the feature set for Source." <font color="#f5b8b9"><b>INC</b></font> (6:15:22 PM): that's a load of PR baloney <font color="#aeb5ff"><b>Jhoh Cable</b></font> (6:15:35 PM): Yeah but it sounds weird. :) <font color="#aeb5ff"><b>Jhoh Cable</b></font> (6:15:52 PM): They would always mention that doctor guy who they studied about facial expressions from. <font color="#aeb5ff"><b>Jhoh Cable</b></font> (6:15:56 PM): And it's like OKAY. <font color="#aeb5ff"><b>Jhoh Cable</b></font> (6:15:58 PM): WHATEVER. <font color="#f5b8b9"><b>INC</b></font> (6:16:05 PM): yeah, who cares <font color="#f5b8b9"><b>INC</b></font> (6:16:08 PM): it's a fucking video game <font color="#f5b8b9"><b>INC</b></font> (6:16:14 PM): just make it play well and make it fun <font color="#aeb5ff"><b>Jhoh Cable</b></font> (6:16:16 PM): But it would make sense, because it would give you the best reference for knowing how to attach facial expressions to emotions and shit. <font color="#aeb5ff"><b>Jhoh Cable</b></font> (6:20:05 PM): It creeps me out that they are putting weird shit in the Sorce engine that brainwashes me. <font color="#aeb5ff"><b>Jhoh Cable</b></font> (6:20:20 PM): I wonder if it would be rendered ineffective if I had a really bad framerate. :) <font color="#f5b8b9"><b>INC</b></font> (6:20:37 PM): or a small monitor? <font color="#f5b8b9"><b>INC</b></font> (6:20:41 PM): or a TV on in the background? <font color="#aeb5ff"><b>Jhoh Cable</b></font> (6:20:56 PM): Perhaps. <font color="#f5b8b9"><b>INC</b></font> (6:20:57 PM): or any other of 8 million billion reasons PC game don't capture your full attention <font color="#aeb5ff"><b>Jhoh Cable</b></font> (6:21:09 PM): Yeah but you are forgetting that this is Half-Life 2. <font color="#aeb5ff"><b>Jhoh Cable</b></font> (6:21:14 PM): Shit doesn't steal attention from HL2. <font color="#aeb5ff"><b>Jhoh Cable</b></font> (6:21:19 PM): HL2 steals attention from everything else. <font color="#aeb5ff"><b>Jhoh Cable</b></font> (6:21:37 PM): I could probably be playing Half-Life 2 and then forget to breathe. <font color="#f5b8b9"><b>INC</b></font> (6:21:45 PM): that would be in the Source engine <font color="#aeb5ff"><b>Jhoh Cable</b></font> (6:21:50 PM): And then I'll be like, "I'll start breathing again after this part." <font color="#f5b8b9"><b>INC</b></font> (6:21:52 PM): it also steals your soul <font color="#aeb5ff"><b>Jhoh Cable</b></font> (6:24:45 PM): It's a good thing that breathing wouldn't interrupt the game playing. <font color="#aeb5ff"><b>Jhoh Cable</b></font> (6:24:56 PM): Otherwise I would definitely try to hold off from it for as long as possible. <font color="#aeb5ff"><b>Jhoh Cable</b></font> (6:25:16 PM): OKAY POSTING THIS LOG[/quote]