OmegaBolt

POTUS I assume is a skin disease of the scrotum which looks rather like the faces of Trump and Clinton.

PC was never going to die, computers are used for everything in the 21st century, not just for gaming, so if you think this is a "leap for survival" then you're wrong. Survival is never in question.

I'm not exactly in either camps presented here, except that the entire point of the PC was that it was largely an open format, that was customisable - a hackers playground that lead to many games, software and hardware that we use today. Now, as Microsoft has been closing down harder than before in recent years, in particular as they tried to on the new Xbox, but were forced to retract in some areas, I think the traditional concept of the PC is indeed dying. And it seems like a rather arbitrary decision according to this quote: "Microsoft will support the list of Skylake PCs running Windows 7 and 8.1 for only 18 months, until July 2017". That's not a hardware limitation if you can just turn on or off compatibility whenever you want. That's just a choice which only grants the monopolistic corporations more control.

Now I guess it's quite unclear what "support" means. If they mean you can choose to run another operating system but there is just no official support or technical help, then that's not as bad. If they literally mean it's cut off completely then that's very bad of them.

I've been mulling over for a while the possibility of moving over to Linux or some other OS, rather than 'upgrade', because I don't like at all the direction MS is going, and it's shitty that the only two real competitor OSes are converging in their lack of user freedom. Windows 10 backwards compatibility has been god awful so far and makes a lot of games unplayable, which is completely unacceptable and one of the terrible aspects of the consoles. Of course switching OS would also do that, so it's really a catch-22, and that's the danger of only having a two major competitors. Feels like the corridor is narrowing rapidly.
 

Last year, AAA titles for PC were abysmal.  From Arkham Knight, Assassin's Creed, and even to Black Ops 3, it's easy to see that the great game of compatibility balancing is destroying the PC gaming market.

But they're not even the PC market... they're console games being terribly ported. In fact what's incredibly ironic is that with the arrival of PS4 and Xbox everyone said PC ports would be better, because the architecture is not very different anymore. And what happened? Some of the worst ports in history from some of the biggest games companies in history. They fully knew their games were terrible and released them anyway.
 

It's a decision will balance the grounds between PC and consoles.  We're already clearly in the lead in the great game, but this change in design will send consoles leagues into a sea of obsolete despair.  It's not just about gaming, but it might very well be the biggest advantage of this.

How does closing down the system make it better than console? The whole problem with consoles are the fact they're completely closed, with ridiculous attempts at DRM and a limited selection of games and hardware vendors. This is anywhere from your console having to check in online every 24 hours, to not being able to lend a game to a friend anymore, to lack of backwards compatibiliy which renders the entire previous generation useless, to only a limited selection of software/games because every publisher has to get a license from Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo, to no games modding, no hardware modding, no unofficial patching, etc etc. If you think Microsoft won't go further down that road as PC options get increasingly limited, I think you're wrong.

Yeah this sounds like a nightmare that only solidifies people's collective stupidity.

I disagree with you here on quite a fundamental level. I think what video game fans need to do is really support "visionaries" and directors in video games. Gamers are always complaining, and should complain, about the endless spewing of triple-A titles that are barely distinguishable from one another and because of the yearly output are released with reduced the quality, putting enormously unfair pressure on the developers, and still expect us to fork out for these inferior productions. This is because they're corporate driven by boardrooms, much like Hollywood. Those people do not know how to make games other than on a production level, and do not understand what gamers actually like. They just follow market trends. The only way to counter that is to support the developers, and individuals who actually have something artistic to say in the video game medium. People who actually know what makes a good story and good gameplay and see a particular direction in which to take a game or series, not just repeat more of the same.

 

And you say "he wasted money that wasn't his" but Konami did give the money to him. It's very unfair to blame only him for any or all issues that arose. At some point the money stops, yes, and he has a responsibility to come out with game at the end of it, but Konami also entrusted him to do it, and for them to try to wash their hands of the whole thing is a stab in the back too.

 

I'm definitely not saying Kojima is perfect as a person or whatever, because I don't know him. However, even if he has the biggest ego in the world and is just a dick, I think character quirks and flaws come with being an "artist". It doesn't mean he personally shouldn't try to overcome those things or learn the production side of game making better, but simply because he is a strong, distinct, directorial voice in the games industry, in an ocean of corporate grey, I think he needs to be supported and we need more people like him.

1/10, terrible review.

 

It's up to the developers whether they want to continue to patch the mod or not. You didn't pay for it, or contribute to it's creation. It was purely the work of passionate hobbyists. Any fandom I'm sure is welcome, but when you stop being supportive and start being entitled, it stops being helpful.

 

You clearly haven't tried to inform yourself on why saving and loading is disabled. It's done so because the logic takes a lot of work to fix and maintain while new gameplay logic is being added to Ares. Now, MO 3.0 relies very heavily on new Ares logics and most, if not all modern mods, wouldn't be half as interesting without it. It's been incredibly valuable in keeping mods fresh after 15 years of YR modding. So getting rid of saving/loading is an easy choice IMO. AlexB has been working very hard on getting it to work and made great progress, but it will always be something that needs to be maintained as features are added, and he's just a hobbyist too, working on Ares all by his lonesome.

 

How do hard missions really make it "very disappointing"? You're ignoring all the good stuff just because it's too hard for you. It's too hard for me too, but the incredible voxel work, the new faction designs, all the maps and sounds, gamemodes- everything is of the highest quality in the community and just because I can't finish the missions doesn't make it a bad game, at all. It might be a negative for you, but it cannot ruin the whole thing. Furthermore the missions are almost objectively better in terms of design and technical complexity than any 2.0 mission, and that needs recognizing too. Not to mention 2.0 missions were often broken or had you hunt down the last stealth tank like a dummy.

 

A closed beta is again the developers prerogative. They don't owe you anything. They can pick and choose who they want. And let's face it, there have been MO 3.0 leaks in the past too that can give people the wrong impression if things change afterwards. They don't even need to have a beta if they don't want to. Surprises are always nice and waiting for it is fine, as long as the final release is beautiful.

 

Your review of post support is also silly. 1/10 forgets all the community support that has been going on. There's always someone here responding to people's technical troubles, feedback and idea contributions, lore discussions etc. There are constant news posts to supply people with the latest development information. That doesn't deserve 1/10, it's better than a lot of real games companies. The lack of patches is a fair criticism I share, but again they owe neither of us anything.

 

Also, MO 1.2 didn't have any missions, so that seems factually inaccurate.

 

I'm not a developer, I don't have access to the new beta and I'm no MO fanboy. I just think this topic is crap.

Firstly, we in the west are "allies" of SA. I'm suspecting that Obama's agreements with Iran is a diplomatically sound realignment to this. If we can be on good terms with Iran, we can avoid a east-west conflagration between Shias and Sunnis directly supported by Iran. Still, if SA falls, many nations will fall with them. Iraq, Yemen, Qatar, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Libya, etc. Most of these nations are dependent on a strong SA (third largest military budget in the world today,) so if they fall, we'll have a political vacuum that certain forces will be eager to fill.

 

Why would the others fall?

 

Iraq & Syria are not friends of or relying on SA. Iraq is now requesting Russian aid to fight ISIS, which the US has challenged by saying that if this happens the US will stop helping Iraq altogether... well if Iraq does go with Russia, then they'll be completely on the "other side". Not to mention they have been working with Iran since the beginning to fight ISIS too, they don't rely on SA for aid at all. Syria is already in indirect conflict with Saudi Arabia, as they believe SA has been aiding the Syrian rebels, which includes ISIS.

 

Libya is already a failed state, they can't get any worse and are incapable of doing anything outside of their own borders. Whoever "they" is right now.

 

The invasion of Yemen would also stop, which would be good for them... the new Yemeni government would be able to, hopefully, deal with ISIS there too and would likely be aided by Iran and others if right now that wouldn't mean war with the Saudis.

 

Not to mention plenty of terrorism would stop altogether, and in fact it would allow for a true end to the whole thing further down the line... without the SA seed, terrorist groups could actually be mopped up by well intended forces and wouldn't have an infinite supply of money, weapons and ideological investment.

I don't think anyone is suggesting there should be no factory workers. We're saying that the system should be made to work in their favour so that they can work in a factory without dropping below the poverty line. More investment in these people leads to a better world for everyone. It's not an evil to work in a factory, it should just be a better compensated job. As for people always exploiting others, that needs to be curbed, which it already is to a large degree. I assume there is a minimum wage in the US, there are many laws that employers must comply with when hiring employees, there are rent caps, slavery is no longer allowed... there are many tools to stop people being exploited, they just don't go far enough. Currently they are just enough to stop an uprising but they should be pushed in favour of the majority and the 1% should be made to pay their fair share at the very least.

 

Just look up Universal Basic Income as one idea to readdress things. It's an idea that's been around for a long time. I believe Switzerland might be trialing it at some point, or at least I heard that it was in discussion. They also trialed something similar in a Namibian village recently and showed that health increased, school attendance went up and crime was reduced by 50%.

 

What you seem to be saying is that there will be factory workers and there shouldn't be a welfare system to help them, which is pretty mad considering the rest of the economy relies on factory workers.

 

Also someone working in a factory vs someone in finance isn't a class separation and I don't know why you think it is. You seem to think that one is inherentely better than the other, which is one of the problems of the system in the first place. People are told to get a certain type of job where they make the most money while doing the least. It's like capitalistic laziness. So certain jobs where you get to wear a suit and feel like part of the crowd are made to look better and they're unrealistically paid better too. There shouldn't even be classes at all in America considering there is no monarchy. There is no divinely appointed overlord or "long to reign over us" nonsense like in our anthem. There is just a lot of equal people doing different jobs.

 

All I see is things getting harder with continued price increases, lower wages and austerity (while national debt and deficit has continued to rise regardless, it is a hoax). My mother is now working more hours with two jobs in a smaller place than she was when I was born 22 years ago. I just don't see why things should keep getting harder when the entire 'dream' propogated by society is that if you work hard you get somewhere. It isn't true, it's just what they want you to believe so you continue struggling in vain.

I laugh every time I hear news reports of the economy 'getting better', as if it is designed with the goal of growing and helping everyone. If the economy gets better everyone's lives improve and one day we will all have whatever we want, but that isn't the case. The system isn't designed to improve anything just continue to rotate. Reaching post recession levels is supposed to sound like a good thing as if everything was alright then. And it's the working people that have to pay for it, not the aristocracy.

upper classes to take care of those in the lower

Well there's one of your flaws, believing in class. Just the word class in itself used to designate separations between people is incorrect, and then having one category supposedly above the other. Of course it's all luck of the draw, the upper class still die of cancer and rot on the inside.
 

Im all for charity and trust me I donate a decent amount to them however I don't want to be forced to help anyone.

Why not? If we force people who don't play by societies rules into prison, or even worse as some states in the US do, put them to death, then why can't we also force people to do good for society? If people aren't allowed to smoke weed why are some people allowed to take all they can to the grave at the expense of everyone else? It's psychopathic behaviour that surely cannot be tolerated.

If you had the rich and poor right next to one another, with the rich sitting idle in his nice house eating until he can't finish his food and then tossing it in the bin while the other is dying of starvation and living on the streets, wouldn't you want to correct that? If the only separation IS luck of birth why wouldn't you level the playing field?
 

That is why I don't support welfare, feeding the poor etc. If we (the US) advocated a more work orientated welfare system, where those on welfare earn the money by working in a civil service or military position and agreed to be drug tested then I see no problem with the system.

You're hitting on a fundamental misunderstanding here. You think that the ones in need of welfare don't work? It's completely the opposite. People are working down to the bone but can't make ends meet in this backwards system. Your entire economy is supported by the 'lower classes' and immigrants being exploited and paid less than is livable. Many simply fall off the end of the treadmill, which is why you get homeless people, drug addicts, criminals. The 'scum' of society aren't people that simply don't want to work, but working is not enough to live off. The only way to make it at the bottom is to work literally endlessly, without life, and that is pointless. Might as well thieve and deal drugs instead, or just give up and beg.

It doesn't make a lot of sense when the manual labour, shitty and dangerous jobs that no one wants to do gets paid the least yet comfortable office workers are making a killing doing comparatively fuck all.

The rich make their money off the poor, it's how it has to work. Money has to cycle around. If the poor get paid more then they have more money to spend, giving rich people more money so they can invest and make even more. But the money has to go back to the bottom else it stops flowing. If it stops raining the Earth dries up.

No ones lost imagination it's just the people with money don't fund those with the imaginations. The space race was political and the US/Russia put effort into it (though none of the people at the top had any more imagination than they do now, besides imagining a political victory). Nowadays it's all military budget... we could quite literally do anything if funding went to the right places.

 

Also overpopulation fixes itself. We won't keep going indefinitely once a limit is reached and we can always stop ourselves too. Saying comfortable people have more kids is completely wrong, it's exactly the opposite. Developed countries have lower birth rates. Better educated people with more prospects have better things to do, don't get pregnant at an early age and know that a smaller family is more sustainable in their economy. Most of the world isn't in a comfortable situation. Instead of continuing war to keep people oppressed, increase the idiocy by destroying education systems, forcing people to fight back and turn to religion and political fanatics only increases world problems and in no way reduces the population in an efficient way. We don't even need to colonise other planets if we just take back power from the blind morons at the top and start addressing real problems at the root.

Yes, the next version of Ares is now available in a stable and nicely packaged form thanks to our hero AlexB, including Windows 8 fixes (no, not fixing the operating system itself, that is beyond the project!), new modding abilities and a reworked manual. Get ready for the next wave of Ares powered mods!
 

Hello guys,

Today is Ares 0.7 release day! Ares 0.7 fixes a few memory issues that were affecting all operating systems, but that had a habit of crashing on Windows 8. They all have been fixed, so this Ares version is more stable than ever. Of course, there are also some new features, like the customizable score screen graphics and themes, and several old ones like the Drop Pod and Hunter Seeker super weapons. Another bunch of features is related to the Cyborg Reaper's Splits missile logic, which has been implemented in Ares, and which needed Ranged and ProjectileRange to be implemented as well. It's all there, and now it is possible to recreate the Cyborg Reaper's missiles in YR (not the net-thrower weapon, though).

There are lots of more small features, like better support to create landmines, prevent units from scattering when repaired by a warhead, treat civilian units as enemies, and custom airstrike voices. You'll find them in the documentation, which has a new What's New page where you can easily see what features were added recently. Even if it does not show bugfixes for the original game, there were some of them, too. The inefficient aircraft smoke lookup has been replaced by a new system with customizable smoke animations and probabilities. And of course, lots of internal Ares code was updated. The Migration Guide in the manual lists only one item, and this time you need to take no steps to upgrade.

Regarding the documentation: It is in a transitional state. The table of contents got longer and longer and items on the same topic were spread over the entire length. This will hopefully be sorted out soon. As of now, the search feature will no longer display formatting texts, but almost only the pure text you see on a page. This should make it easier to find the right page.

That's it for today. Happy Modding!

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Ares is an engine expansion project designed to improve the original game's performance and stability and provide extra utility for modders. Ares is an open source project and welcomes contributions from C++ developers and always requires more active testing! Head over to the forum on Project Perfect Mod to take part.

YR Red-Resurrection 2.1 Released!

Red-Resurrection Multiplayer Beta 2.1 is here packaged in an easy to use installer! The mod comes packaged with all you need to play including Ares and CNCNet and no longer conflicts with other mods.
 

 

Also Including...

• The latest and greatest Ares 0.6 stable release for better performance and new features!
• A brand new mod launcher created by Thear of C&C Amnesia.
• A new aerial arsenal for the Allied forces.
• Re-introduced the Megawealth gamemode with 17 maps to choose from.
• An improved AI.
• Bugs and balance changes including an overhaul of all weapon ranges.
• Improved visuals with a new voxel palette meaning nicer unit lighting and other graphical tweaks.

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Go bash some rocks together.

hey, i am teenager, not kid. did you forget the teenagers ages and kids ages? ok. kids [6-12]. the teenagers [13-19].

It's not physical age it's mental age. You're a kid until you stop acting like it.